Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, was famous for a man of
few words. He knew what he should talk and when he should not. It was very hard of anyone
to enjoytalking with him. One evening he was inviting to dinner. A lady sitting next to him past the sugar
for his coffee. “Mr President,” she said.” Today a friend of me said that I couldn’t get much than
two words out of you. I had said I can, and we made a bet.” “You lost,” answered the president.
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Last weekend, there was art festival in our school. Our headmaster plan to make it a feature of our school. I was so excited, for it was the first time for me to join in it.
Early in the morning, I saw such many people come to our school, made it so lively. The students gave a warm welcome to the guest. I walked around or appreciated the paintings. All of the works were from the students and I was very impressed by it. There were also some handcrafts, that were so creative. Though they were busy with their study most of the time, some students still managed to develop their hobbies. I should learn to them and develop a hobby as well as.
I read in the newspaper that the figures had improved but it has got hold of the wrong end of the stick—unemployment is still .
—I'm sure you did.
College graduation brings both the satisfaction of academic achievement and the expectation of a well-paid job. But for 6, 000 graduates at San Jose State this year, there's uncertainty as they enter one of the worst job markets in decades. Ryan Stewart has a freshly-minted (新兴的) degree in religious studies, but no job prospects.
"You look at everybody's parents and neighbours, and they're getting laid off and don't have jobs," said Stewart. "Then you look at the young people just coming into the workforce... it's just scary."
When the class of 2003 entered college, the future never looked brighter. But in the four years they've been here, the world outside has changed dramatically.
"Those were the exciting times, lots of dot-com opportunities, exploding offers, students getting top dollar with lots of benefits," said Cheryl Allmen-Vinnidge of the San Jose State Career Center. "Times have changed. It's a new market."
Cheryl Allmen-Vinnidge ought to know. She runs the San Jose State Career Center, sort of a crossroads between college and the real world. Allmen-Vinnidge says students who do find jobs after college have done their homework.
"The typical graduate who does have a job offer started working on it two years ago. They've postured (定位) themselves well during the summer. They've had several internships (实习)," she said. And they've majored in one of the few fields that are still hot, like chemical engineering, accounting, or nursing, where average starting salaries have actually increased over last year. Other popular fields (like information systems management, computer science, and political science) have seen big declines in starting salaries.
Ryan Stewart (he had hoped to become a teacher) may just end up going back to school. "I'd like to teach college some day and that requires more schooling, which would be great in a bad economy," he said.
To some students, a degree may not be a ticket to instant wealth. For now, they can only hope its value will increase over time.
→ his talk than he was surrounded by all the workers.
我们游览了一座山，山顶上耸立着一座古庙。
Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sad stories.
"The 'if it bleeds' rule works for the mass media," says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. "They want your eyeballs and don't care how you're feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don't want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer."
Researchers analysing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times' website. He and a Penn colleague analysed the "most e-mailed" list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that science amazed the Times' readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.
Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr Berger explains in his new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On.
一些专家要求给孩子们充足的睡眠时间。
Many teachers believe that hands-on experience is the (good) way to learn. A group of students in the United States are putting that belief to the test. They (success) designed and built a robot for discovering unexplored mines the bottom of the sea. Students made the robot (answer) a challenge from the U. S. Department of Defense.
The students recently tested the underwater vehicle (call) Perseus Ⅱ in a 95-meter-long tank of water at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
The robot costs about $15, 000 to build. The students use a video game control to direct (it) movements in the tank. What's more, devices known as Japters (able) the robot to go up, down and toward its target in the water. Video cameras on the robot send images back to a computer through a 13-meter-long cable. Perseus Ⅱ, the students worked up to 20 hours a week to design and build, also has set of lasers (激光), which are used to measure the size of an object.
DeLorme supervised the project from (begin) to end. He says the specialized requirements of robots were demanding.
At times Marty made it sound too easy. On a visit to his home I heard him say, "People need to decide to be happy."
I pressed him. "What do you mean by that?" His face took on a skeptical look. "You have to ask me?" At that moment I felt a little foolish. Complex human problems, at least to me, often prevent people from being happy. To Marty it was a matter of common sense. I wondered, "What was I missing?" That night Marty told me a story that was very personal for him. I knew Marty and Mickey had four children. I didn't know there had been a fifth. She was their second child. She died shortly after birth.
"The funeral director was a super guy," Marty said. "He knew we didn't have any money, but he told us he would take care of our little girl. He went out and built a wood casket (小盒) for her. "
Marty's voice started to break. "He only charged us five dollars. It's stuff like that. You can look for the good in people and you'll find the good. You can look for the bad in people and you'll find the bad."
I didn't know what it was like to grow up poor. Marty's life was filled with minimum-wage jobs, borrowing on insurance policies, and working overtime to make a little more money.
In my lifetime I had seen people in similar circumstances grow angry. Bitterness took hold of their lives and choked them.
"I never had much money, and I don't think I ever will," Marty said. "People think they need to have a lot of things to make them happy. They ought to look around and see what's really important." When Marty looked around, he saw the most beautiful girl in the world as his wife, four children who loved him, a home he took pride in, and a job that made him feel alive. He was happy because, in his mind, he had it all.
