2022年9月英语四级美文欣赏

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1.2022年9月英语四级美文欣赏

　　Technology and the division of labour have done two things:by eliminating in many fields the need for special strength or skill,they have made a very large number of paid occupations which formerly were enjoyable work into boring labour,and by increasing productivity they have reduced the number of necessary labouring of the population,that is to say, its labourers,will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy.It seems interesting and relaxing good news at the first sight,but when one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved,the prospect is not cheerful.

　　The past aristocracies invented a lot of activities to make fun out of boredom,however, the problem of dealing with boredom may be even more difficult for such a future mass society than it was for aristocracies.The latter, for example, ritualized their time;there was a season to shoot grouse,a season to spend in town, a season to hold a lot of parties, etc.The masses are more likely to replace an unchanging ritual by fashion which it will be in the economic interest of certain people to change as often as possible.Again, the masses cannot go in for hunting,for very soon there would be no animals left to hunt.

　　For other aristocratic amusements like gambling, dueling, and warfare,it may be only too easy to find equivalents in dangerous driving,drug-taking, and senseless acts of violence.Workers seldom commit acts of violence,because they can put their aggression into their work,be it physical like the work of a smith,or mental like the work of a scientist or an artist.The role of aggression in mental work is aptly expressed by the phrase “getting one’s teeth into a problem”.

2.2022年9月英语四级美文欣赏

　　The Answer Is a Click-Away Can’t decide whether to dump your boyfriend, move house or sell your car?The answer may be just a click-away.Two British men and three women will let the Internet play God for 15 days by handing over their daily,sometimes life-changing decisions, to a potential jury of 12.7 million people,Internet news portal MSN said in a statement.The five people were chosen as part of a project to give the Internet a chance to help ordinary people make important daily decisions.

　　This latest venture comes three decades after the publication of Luke Rhinehart’s best-selling book “The Dice Man”,the story of a man who gives up his control of life to the dice,and follows the worldwide success of reality TV show “Big Brother”.Each of the five will put a decision a day to the Internet community and will have to act on the outcome of the decision,although they will be given a “joker”—meaning they can back out of one decision —during the period, MSN said.Internet users around the world will be able to vote on the decisions each day by visiting www.liveyourlife.msn.co.uk.

　　A dedicated site has been created around each participant,giving information about their backgrounds,their loves, hates, hopes and daily diary updates.At the end of the 15 days,web users will decide which of the five has let the Internet live their life to the maximum and he or she will win 10,000 pounds.In the past people tended to rely on dice or some fortune books to decide their next action.Nowadays it seems a popular trend to express their problems on the Internet to seek help.But is it really beneficial to make decisions based on the Internet?Or we’d better depend on ourselves and be responsible for our own lives.

3.2022年9月英语四级美文欣赏

　　Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole,so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly,it admired the flowers along the way.It chatted with worms.It enjoyed the sunshine.It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit.So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching.Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly.It was so happy.Now it could be whole, with nothing missing.It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll.Now that it was a perfect circle,it could roll very fast,too fast to notice the flowers，to talk to the worms.

　　When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly,it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.The lesson of the story, I suggested,was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something.The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man.He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope,to nourish his soul with the dream of something better.He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him and gives him something he has always wanted or never had.There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations,who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive,she/he can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

　　Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spelling bee,where no matter how many words you’ve gotten right,you’re disqualified if you make one mistake.Life is more like a baseball season,where even the best team loses one-third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.When we accept that imperfection is part of being human,and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it,we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That, I believe, is what God asks of us —not “be perfect”, not “don’t even make a mistake”, but “be whole.”If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive,generous enough to rejoice in another’s happiness,and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all,then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.

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