概要写作1 Envy
It’s a familiar but uncomfortable feeling. Your best friend will marry a handsome
doctor, and the congratulatory hug you offer lacks genuine warmth. Your friend is made the team for Saturday’s big game, and you take a certain pleasure in telling him you can’t be there to watch him play. You smile but a voice in your head asks, why them and not you?
Envy is a shortcoming of character we like to keep in our heart secretly. How
shameful is it not to be looking forward with delight to your day as your best friend's bridesmaid! Who would hope your friend might suffer some injury, so you can take his place on the team?
Envy is everywhere. It seems to be in our nature to hate others' gifts and good fortune, especially if we see them as advantages they shouldn't have.
Envy raises its ugly head when we focus on what we want but we don’t possess now.
Worse still, we may even wish for and take pleasure in someone's losing what we have always desired. When you compare yourself and your life unfavorably with your friend or your colleague, you can only keep your darker emotions.
So is there a solution? Is there anything you can do to get rid of this most ungenerous emotion?
Well, why not make envy the motivation you need for self-improvement? The best
weapon against envy is not to compete where you can’t shine, but to do your absolute best where you can.
Start by making peace with yourself, and accept the gifts which make you unique. Make a n agreement with yourself to be the best you can be. Then find the qualities in others that
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cause your envy. Is it someone’s singing voice, their work promotion, their new car? Envy shows us the things we’d like to have. So, make a plan to earn what's important to you.
And aim for genuine pleasure in the achievements and good fortune of others. Cheer
on your friend when he scores that goal. Enjoy your best friend’s wedding day. Then go out and do something special, and make yourself wonderfully proud of you. 参考答案
Envy is a common but unpleasant feeling, which is a secret hidden in our heart. This
nature usually arises when we can't get what we want and even take delight in others' losing it. To avoid this negative feeling, firstly try to transform envy into the motivation to improve ourselves. Besides, accept your unique talents gladly. Finally, appreciate others' achievements sincerely.
概要写作2 Water shortage
Using too much water or throwing rubbish into our rivers are clear ways that humans
can put our water supply in danger, but we also affect our water supply in less obvious ways. You may wonder how paving a road can lead to less useable fresh water. A major part of the water we use every day is groundwater. Groundwater does not come from lakes or rivers. It comes from underground. The more roads and parking lots we pave, the less water can flow into the ground to become groundwater.
Human activity is not responsible for all water shortages. Drier climates are of course more likely to have droughts than areas with more rainfall, but in any case, good management can help to make sure there is enough water to meet our basic needs.
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Thinking about the way we use water every day can make a big difference, too. In the United States, a family of four can use 1.5 tons of water a day! This shows how much we depend on water to live, but there’s a lot we can do to lower the number.
You can take steps to save water in your home. To start with, use the same glass for
your drinking water all day. Wash it only once a day. Run your dishwasher only when it is full. Help your parents fix any leaks in your home. You can even help to keep our water supply clean by recycling batteries instead of throwing them away. 参考答案
Human activities, such as wasting water, polluting rivers and constructing roads, can
partly lead to water shortage. Meanwhile, drier climates are another cause of insufficient water supply. Hopefully, if you take action to use water smartly/wisely in your daily life, say, using the same glass of water, maximizing the efficiency of dishwashers, helping repair leaks and recycling batteries, you can still make a significant difference.
概要写作3 Sneeze
Many people are used to saying “bless you” or “gesundheit” when someone sneezes.
No one says anything when someone coughs or blows their nose, so why do sneezes get special treatment?
The phrase “God bless you” belongs to Pope Gregory the Great, who voiced it in the
sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (黑死病泛滥时期) (sneezing is an obvious symptom of one form of the plague). The term “gesundheit” comes fromGermany,and it literally means “health”. The idea is that a sneeze typically occurs before illness.
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Actually every country around the globe has its own way of wishing sneezers well.
People in Arabic countries say “alhamdulillah” which means “praise to be God”. Hindus say “Live!” or “Live well!” Some countries have special sneezing responses to children. InRussia, they are also told “rostibolshoi” (“grow big”) after children are given the traditional response “bud zdorov” (“be healthy”).
For the most part, the various sneeze responses originated from ancient superstitions
(迷信). Some people believed that a sneeze causes the soul to escape the body through the nose. Saying “bless you” would stop the devil from taking the person’s soul. Others believed the opposite: evil spirits use the sneeze as an opportunity to enter a person’s body. There was also the misunderstanding that the heart temporarily stops during a sneeze (it doesn’t), and saying “bless you” is a way of welcoming the person back to life.
We now know that sneezing is a reflex action and is most often the sign of something
relatively benign (良性的), such as a cold or allergy (过敏). A sneeze also can be caused by being outside in the sunlight or from smelling a strong smell. Still, we keep the custom of saying “bless you” or “gesundheit”, mainly out of habit and common kindness. 参考答案
People usually say “bless you” after they sneeze, as sneezing was considered one of
the typical features of the plague. Many countries have their unique custom of wishing good health in response to sneezing. Most practices have their origin from ancient superstitions. Now sneezing is known as merely an indication of a minor sickness and a response to outside stimulations, yet we keep the custom, mainly out of habit and politeness.
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概要写作4 Taking a shower
TAKING a shower is relaxing. You can hum a song, daydream or think about nothing,
leaving the real world behind you. But did you know that showering can also benefit your mind?
A piece of research by Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist from Yale University in
the US interviewed over 3,000 people around the world. It turned out that nearly two-thirds of the interviewees said they had experienced new ideas in the shower and were more likely to have them in the shower than at work.
So why does a simple shower have such magic power? Science can explain it. Showering can help to raise our level of dopamine, a hormone closely related to our
creativity. “People vary in terms of their level of creativity according to the activity of dopamine”, explained Alice Flaherty, a renowned American neuroscientist. “Taking a warm shower can make us feel relaxed and therefore make the dopamine level rise and bring the “Aha!” moment to us.”
Besides the chemical changes, showering may give you a break from what you feel
you have been stuck with. Especially when you have thought hard all day about a problem, jumping into the shower can keep you from the outside world so that you can focus on your inner feelings and memories. In this way, according to American psychologist Shelley H. Carson, author of Your Creative Brain, “a showering hour may turn into an ‘incubation (孵化) period’ for your ideas”.
Compared with sitting in front of a computer, taking a shower is something we do
less frequently in our daily lives. When showering, we get a fresh experience with the change of location, temperature and humidity. “New and unexpected experiences can
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