2022年6月大学英语四级美文参考

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1.2022年6月大学英语四级美文参考

　　Humility is the best policy for technological forecasters.If you doubt that, remember those confident predictions of 30 years ago about the coming arrival of the “paperless office.”The arrival of computers everywhere in the workplace would,we were assured, soon make paper a thing of the past.Bill Gates vision of a computer on every desk has been more or less realized.Yet most of the folks working at those desks are knee-deep in paper.Research suggests our increasing use of paper is due to the introduction of the very digital technology that was supposed to wipe it out.

　　The case studies on email in the workplace, for example,show that it can lead to a 40 percent increase in paper consumption —and this doesn’t take into account the amount of paper used to print information from the Internet.There’s a wonderful irony here, because the personal computer —not to mention the laser printer —was invented in a lab set up by a copier company which was worried by all the talk of paperless offices.Our attachment to paper is truly amazing.

　　An astonishing proportion of email users, for example, prints off their messages and stores them all in filing cabinets.To the technological rationalist this behavior seems irrational.Why store email messages in paper files,which take up valuable real estate and are effectively unsearchable,when you can keep them on a hard disk and effortlessly look through them for keywords and phrases?The answer, of course, is it is the rationalists who are irrational.If people love paper, there must be a reason for it.And there is.

　　It is highly portable, infinitely flexible and embodies very high-resolution display technology,which consumes no battery power.And it doesn’t have to be turned on before you can read it.

2.2022年6月大学英语四级美文参考

　　Today our life and work rarely feel light, pleasant or healing.Instead, the whole experience of being alive begins to melt into one enormous obligation.It becomes the standard greeting everywhere:“I am so busy.”We say this to one another with no small degree of pride.The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and,we imagine, to others.

　　To be unavailable to our friends and family,to be unable to find time for the sunset,to whiz through our obligations without time for a single mindful breath —this has become the model of a successful life.Because we do not rest, we lose our way.We lose the nourishment that gives us help.We miss the quiet that gives us wisdom.Poisoned by the belief that good things come only through tireless effort,we never truly rest.This is not the world we dreamed of when we were young.

　　How did we get so terribly rushed in a world saturated with work and responsibility,yet somehow bereft of joy and delight?We have forgotten the Sabbath.Sabbath is the time to enjoy and celebrate what is beautiful and good —time to light candles, sing songs, worship, tell stories,bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, nap, and walk.It is time to be nourished and refreshed as we let our work,our chores and our important projects lie fallow,trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world when we are at rest.

　　Sabbath is more than the absence of work.Many of us, in our desperate drive to be successful and care for our many responsibilities feel terrible guilt when we take time to rest.But the Sabbath has proven its wisdom over the ages.Many of us still recall when, not long ago,shops and offices were closed on Sundays.Those quiet Sunday afternoons are embedded in our cultural memory.

3.2022年6月大学英语四级美文参考

　　A little old couple walked slowly into McDonald’s one cold winter evening.They looked out of place amid the young families and young couples eating there that night.The little old man walked right up to the cash register,placed his order with no hesitation and then paid for their meal.The couple took a table near the back wall and started taking food off the tray.There was one hamburger,one order of French fries and one drink.

　　The little old man unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half.He placed one half in front of his wife.Then he carefully counted out the French fries,divided them in two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife.He took a sip of the drink,his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them.As the man began to eat his few bites of hamburger the crowd began to get restless.

　　You could tell what they were thinking.“That poor old couple.All they can afford is one meal for the two of them.”As the man began to eat his French fries one young man stood and came over to the old couple’s table.He politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple to eat.The old man replied that they were just fine.They were used to sharing everything.As the little old man finished eating and was wiping his face neatly with a napkin the young man could stand it no longer.

　　Again he came over to their table and offered to buy some food.After being politely refused again,he finally asked a question of the little old lady.“Ma’am, why aren’t you eating?You said that you share everything.What is it that you are waiting for?”She answered, “The teeth.”

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