英语作文范文-英语作文经典作文十篇
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英语作文范文
英语作文经典作文十篇
> 01 The Language of
Music A painter hangs his or her
finished
picture
on
a
wall,
and
everyone
can
see
it.
A
composer
writes a work, but
no one can hear it until it is performed.
Professional
singers
and
players
have
great
responsibilities, for
the composer is utterly dependent on
them.
A
student
of
music
needs
as
long
and
as
arduous
a
training
to become a
performer as a medical
student
needs
to
become
a
doctor.
Most
training
is
concerned
with
technique,
for
musicians
have
to
have
the
muscular
proficiency
of
an
athlete
or
a
ballet
dancer.
Singers
practice breathing
every day, as
their
vocal
chords
would
be
inadequate
without
controlled muscular support. String
players practice moving
the fingers of
the left hand up and down, while drawing the
bow to and fro with the right arm --
two
entirely different movements.
Singers
and
instrumentalists
have
to
be
able
to
get
every
note perfectly in tune. Pianists are
spared this particular
anxiety, for the
notes are already there, waiting for them,
and it is the piano
tuner
’
s
responsibility
to
tune
the
instrument
for
them.
But
they
have their own difficulties: the
hammers that hit the strings
have
to
be
coaxed
not
to
sound
like
percussion,
and
each
overlapping tone has to sound
clear.
This
problem
of
getting
clear
texture
is
one
that
confronts
student
conductors:
they
have
to
learn
to
know
every
note of the music and
how it should sound, and they have to
aim at controlling these sounds
with fanatical but selfless authority.
Technique
is
of
no
use
unless
it
is
combined
with
musical
knowledge and understanding. Great
artists are those who are
so thoroughly
at home in the language of music that they can
enjoy performing works
written in any century.
02 Schooling
and Education
It
is
commonly
believed
in
the
United
States
that
school
is where people go to
get an education. Nevertheless, it has
been said that today children
interrupt their education to go
to school. The distinction
between schooling and education implied
by this remark
is important.
Education
is
much
more
open-ended
and
all-inclusive
than
schooling.
Education knows no bounds. It can take
place anywhere,
whether in the shower
or in the job, whether in a kitchen or
on a tractor. It includes both the
formal learning that takes
place in
schools and
the whole universe of
informal learning. The agents of
education can range from a revered
grandparent to the people
debating
politics
on
the
radio,
from
a
child
to
a
distinguished
scientist.
Whereas
schooling
has
a
certain
predictability,
education
quite
often
produces
surprises.
A
chance
conversation
with
a
stranger
may
lead
a
person
to
discover
how
little is known of other religions.
People
are engaged in education from
infancy on. Education,
then,
is
a
very
broad,
inclusive
term.
It
is
a
lifelong
process,
a
process
that
starts
long
before
the
start
of
school,
and
one
that should be an
integral part of
one
’
s entire life.
Schooling,
on
the
other
hand,
is
a
specific,
formalized
process,
whose
general
pattern
varies
little
from
one
setting
to the next.
Throughout
a
country,
children
arrive
at
school
at
approximately the same
time, take assigned seats, are taught
by an adult, use similar textbooks, do
homework, take exams,
and so on. The
slices of
reality that are to be
learned, whether they are the
alphabet
or an understanding of the workings of government,
have usually been limited by the
boundaries of the subject
being taught.
For example, high
school students know
that they are not likely to find
out in
their classes the truth about political problems
in
their
communities
or
what
the
newest
filmmakers
are
experimenting with.
There
are
definite
conditions
surrounding
the
formalized process of schooling.
03
The Definition of
“
Price
”
Prices determine
how resources
are
to be used. They are
also
the means by which products and services that are
in
limited supply are rationed among
buyers.
The price system of
the United States is a
complex
network
composed
of
the
prices
of
all
the
products bought and sold
in the economy as well as those of
a
myriad
of
services,
including
labor,
professional,
transportation, and public-utility
services.
The
interrelationships of all these prices make up the
“
system
”
of prices. The price of any particular product or
service is linked to a broad,
complicated system of prices in
which
everything seems
to depend more or
less upon everything else.
If
one
were
to
ask
a
group
of
randomly
selected
individuals to
define
“
price
”
, many would reply that price
is an amount of money paid by the buyer
to the seller of a
product or service
or,in other
words, that price is the
money value of a product or
service
as
agreed
upon
in
a
market
transaction.
This
definition
is,
of
course,
valid
as
far
as
it
goes.
For
a
complete
understanding of a
price in any