英语作文代沟的成因

英语作文代沟的成因(The Causes of the Generation Gap)

汉浯提示：请写一篇150字左右的文章，说明代沟的形成原因。

[写作导航]第一段是引入，可从父母与孩子相互不理解导致互相埋怨开始，然后用问题：“什么是代沟的成因?”结束第一段；第二段探讨原因，其中之一是年轻人的生活方式与以往不同，这体现在教育、择业、婚姻上；第三段可探讨代沟的另一个原因，即父母对孩子的期望值过高，有时是把自己的意志强加给孩子，从而造成代沟；第三段指出另一个原因是社会的飞速发展导致知识和技能的加速更新，使得代沟形成；最后一段总结结束全篇。

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Parents say that children do not show them proper respect and obedience, while children complain that their parents do not understand them. This phenomenon is often referred to as the generation gap. What then are the causes of the generation gap?

One important cause of the generation gap is the chance that young people have to choose their way of life. In more traditional societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and agree to, and to continue the family occupation. In modern society, young people often travel a great distance for their education, move out of the family at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.

In the easily changing society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find better jobs, to make more money; and to do all the things

that they were unable to do. Often, however, the strong desire that parents have for their children are another cause of the disagreement between them. Often, they discover that they have very little in comMon with each other.

Finally, the speed at which changes take place in modern society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their wisdom, but in modern society, the knowledge of a lifetime may become out of date overnight. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.

No doubt, the generation gap will continue to be a future of our life for some time to come. Its causes are rooted in the changes of our society, and in the rapid speed at which society changes.

Going Abroad

Nowadays study abroad is very popular. Even some primary school students, whose families are well off, are studying abroad, let alone university students and postgraduates. Studying abroad can widen one＇s view and help learn about the cultures of foreign countries. Of course, it＇s a good way to learn foreign languages. But study abroad is not suitable for everyone because of the high cost, fees. If a student＇s family can＇t support him , he has to struggle in a foreign country just for a living not for his studies. I think he needn＇t go abroad. He can study well in China.

So study abroad is one way but not the only way to one＇s education and success

目 录

◆ 社会热点话题

1．忘掉烦忧，开心生活！??????????????????????????? 1 2．爱是什么? ?????????????????????????????? 1 3．住城里好还是住乡下好？?????????????????????????? 1 4．休闲与生活质量. ?????????????????????????????2 5．7天长假的利与弊. ????????????????????????????2 6．工作，劳作与娱乐. ????????????????????????????2 7．入世后我们该做些什么？??????????????????????????3 8.加油！加油！中国足球！???????????????????????????3 9．我们为什么要工作？???????????????????????????? 4 10．明智的抉择—北京2008奥运会???????????????????????4 11．WTO将改变我们的生活. ????????????????????????? 4 12．举办最好的奥运会. ????????????????????????????5 13．如何变成阔佬？????????????????????????????? 5 14．为中国干杯！??????????????????????????????5 15．了解自然，保护生态. ???????????????????????????6 16．媒体与名流. ?????????????????????????????? 6 17．保护大自然. ???????????????????????????????7 18．我们就要断水了！ ????????????????????????????7 19．汽车与空气污染. ?????????????????????????????7 20．你们把孩子惯坏了！ ???????????????????????????8 21．交通法规——安全的保障. ?????????????????????????8 22．五天工作日好！ ?????????????????????????????8 23．污染——全人类的公害. ?????????????????????????9 24. 为什么大学生找工作难？????????????????????????? 9 25. 地球人口太多了！???????????????????????????? 10 26. 人人起来反污染. ????????????????????????????10 ◆现代文化生活话题

1. 怎样考试才合理？????????????????????????????10 2. 教育需要变革. ?????????????????????????????11 3. 网络教育的特点. ???????????????????????????? 11 4. 知识经济的人文特征. ??????????????????????????12 5. 英文写作的重要性. ???????????????????????????12 6. 阅读——必需的生存技能. ????????????????????????12 7. 为什么母语学得那么好？?????????????????????????13 8. 我如何克服英语学习中的困难? ??????????????????????13 9. 如何扩大英语词汇量? ??????????????????????????14 10. 如何应对面试（一）???????????????????????????14 11. 请爱护关心老人（一）??????????????????????????14 12. 去海外读书好. ?????????????????????????????15 13. 我们生活中的电视. ???????????????????????????15 14. 如何学好英语？?????????????????????? ??????15 15. 请关爱老人（二）????????????????????????????16

16. 如何写好短文？ ????????????????????????????16 17. 开卷有益。???????????????????????????????17 18. WTO与教育无关吗？?????????????????????????17 19. 去快餐店就餐。?????????????????????????????17 20. 教育有什么用？???????????????????????????? 18 21. 中国的成人教育。????????????????????????????18 22. 现代家庭的变化。????????????????????????????18 23. 我们为什么要礼貌文明？?????????????????????????19 24. 快餐好不好？??????????????????????????????19 25. 为什么要学英语？ ??????????????????????????20 26. 广告好不好？ ?????????????????????????20 27. 知识就是力量？ ?????????????????????????20 28. 我的爱好。?????????????????????????21 29. 我爱读书。?????????????????????????21

30. 电视广告——真烦人！???????????????????????????21 31. 如何对待失败？????????????????????????? 22

32. 考，考，考——教师的宝。???????????????????????22 33. 我最喜欢的课程。?????????????????????????22 34. 我最理想的工作。?????????????????????????23◆ 经济与科技

1.从APEC到WTO ?????????????????????????23 2.我们生活中的IT?????????????????????????24 3.钱是什么？?????????????????????????24 4.网上购物. ?????????????????????????24

5.如果没有电?? ?????????????????????????25

6.全球化教会我们什么？?????????????????????????25 7.钱能干什么？?????????????????????????26

8.对国内外企的期望. ?????????????????????????26 9.科技对我们生活的影响. ?????????????????????????27 10.做科学的消费者. ?????????????????????????27

11.我们为什么要买保险？?????????????????????????27 12.中国企业的出路. ?????????????????????????28 13.全球经济一体化. ?????????????????????????28 14.电脑和我们的生活. ????????????????????????? 28 15. WTO与中国. ?????????????????????????29 16.入世后的中国. ?????????????????????????29 17.失业了怎么办？?????????????????????????30 18.市场经济的特点. ?????????????????????????30 19.教育与现代化. ?????????????????????????30

20.汽车——让我欢喜让我忧. ?????????????????????????31 21.交通堵塞几时休？?????????????????????????31

社会热点话题（1）

STOP WORRYING NOW!

Worry is one of the most common forms of emotional distress in our culture. Almost everyone spends a considerable amount of present moments worrying about the future. And virtually all of it is for nothing. Obsessive worry will never make things any better. In fact, such worry will very likely help you to be less effective in dealing with the present.

Begin to view your present moments as time to live, rather than time to worry about the future. Act in direct conflict with your usual areas of worry. Enjoy life and don’t waste the present with immobilizing thoughts about the future.

This is the way to minimize your worry in life. But the most effective weapon you have is your own determination to drive this neurotic behavior away from your life.

社会热点话题（2） WHAT IS LOVE?

Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I love to the extent that it is genuine, my caring is not a smothering of the person or a possessive clinging. I’m concerned about his growth and I hope he will become all that he can become, and never put up roadblocks to what he does that enhances him as a person.

Love means having respect for the dignity of the person I love. See him as a separate person, with his own values and thoughts and feelings, and I don’t insist that he surrender his identity and conform to an image of what I expect him to be for me .I can allow and encourage him to stand alone and to be who he is, and I avoid treating him as an object or using him primarily to gratify my own needs.

In short, in love two beings become one and yet remain two

社会热点话题（3）

WHERE TO LIVE- IN THE CITY OR THE COUNTRY?

A modern city has many conveniences such as electricity, gas, schools, hospitals, cinemas, etc. These conveniences make the city people’s life comfortable and easy. But in big cities, there are crimes, air pollution, and crowdedness, which often bother residents.

The countryside has its own attractions, such as clean air, water, and quiet environment. In addition to these,one can enjoy a peaceful life and beautiful natural scenery. There is no noise, no crowdedness and no crime. But some modern facilities are not available. For example, it may not be very convenient for a person to go to a middle school.

I prefer to live in a city because I was born and grew up there. The problems a city has can be solved by modern science and technology.

社会热点话题（4）

LEISURE AND QUALITY OF LIFE

It is true that people in advanced industrial societies are increasingly concerned with opportunities for leisure and what they can do in their leisure time. That is to say, we are attaching more importance to our “quality of life”.

Generally speaking, the term” quality of life” covers a very wide scope such as living environm

For all these reasons, it is really worthwhile to go abroad for further studies, particularly when the object is very weak or not available at home

现代文化生活话题（13） TELEVISION IN OUR LIFE Television—the most popular & persuasive form of modern technologies, marked by rapid change & growth –

is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary functions, which promises to reshape our lives & our world. Or in other words, it is an electronic revolution, made possible by the marriage of television & computer technologies.

Traditionally, television has been a medium of the masses; it has been a major provider of news, information, & entertainment, placing our role as the passive viewer.

Television is more than just an electronics system, however, it is a means of expression, a vehicle for communication, & as well as a powerful tool for reaching other human beings.

现代文化生活话题（14） ON STUDY OF English

In a sense, English is our bridge connecting peoples of the world. The development of a person, a business, even a nation cannot be achieved without communications with the outside world. Since English is most universally used language in various international exchanges, without it we’ll be isolated from international community.

However, the command of English is a time-consuming process. First, a workable stock of vocabulary requires several thousand words and expressions, which takes years to develop. Second, the improvement of the oral and listening competence seems disappointing to learners. Third and most discouraging of all is, the phrase which is made up of familiar words goes quite beyond one’s comprehension.

Despite all difficulties, I shall be bent on practising as I believe in the saying: “Practice makes perfect”

现代文化生活话题（15）

PROVIDE A BETTER LIFE FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Now we have a growing population of senior citizens. To ensure happy lives for them has become a focus of attention.

There are many things to be done to honor senior citizens. To name just a few, they should enjoy some privileges, such as special seats in buses, reduced fares for entertainment & traveling, & other benefits. In short, we should do everything to solve their practical problems, to warm their hearts & to make them happy. Besides, we should find some ways to provide affordable medical health care and ensure a decent pension for them.

Senior citizens, need our love & deserve the best care. Let’s update our traditional respect for the aged & provide a better life for them.

现代文化生活话题（16）

HOW TO WRITE A PARAGRAPH?

To write a paragraph, you’re supposed to follow certain basic steps.

First, think about the topic you have been given or pick a topic of your own; Second, draft as many ideas as you can think of about your topic; Third, look back over your list & pick out the main points you will use in writing your topic sentence; Fourth, write your topic sentence. After that, you’

re ready to develop your paragraph using the main points included in your topic sentence. Be sure that all these sentences give details about the latter. Finally, bring your paragraph to an end by writing a sentence that makes the reader feel that your paragraph is complete.

现代文化生活话题（17）

THE ADVANTAGES OF BOOKS

Books can be found to fit almost every need, temper, or interest. Books can be read when you are in the mood; they do not have to be taken in periodic doses.

Books have an inner confidence, which individuals seldom show; they rarely have to be on the defensive. Books can afford to be courageous & exploratory; they do not have to be so careful of employers, colleagues & community opinions. Books are infinitely diverse; they cover all the fields of human activity. Books can be found to express every point of view; if you want a different point of view, you can read a different book.

As the saying goes” it is always beneficial to open a book”. Why not do it now?

现代文化生活话题（18）

DOES WTO NOT CONCERN EDUCATION?

Quite a number of people take our membership of WTO as the business of the government. However, confronted with WTO & the challenge in educational field, we have to take the following factors into account:

Firstly, education is indeed one essential part of WTO, which is facing a series of new challenge & new opportunities now; Secondly, as a service trade, from basic education to higher & adult education, its open service has been on the way of continuous & enlarging development, and a global open market is coming into being; thirdly, education is an industry. The very aim of WTO is to ensure all kinds of educational products & establishments a conditional access to the market. In short, WTO does concern education.

现代文化生活话题（19）

DINING OUT IN THE FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT

Nowadays, fast-food restaurants have mushroomed everywhere & many people enjoy dining there. Fast-food is rapidly gaining popularity for quite a few reasons. Firstly, there is a variety of food available. If you are busy or tired of cooking, you may have food cooked quickly by modern techniques for a change. Secondly, fast-food satisfies people’s needs. It is convenient, nutritious & delicious with a reasonable price everybody can afford. Finally, dining out in the fast-food restaurant, you can save time & a world of trouble, such as shopping, cooking, washing dishes. Consequently, it benefits people a lot.

Fast food has already changed our ways of living. With the rapid development of science & technology, it will give us better service & possibly become indispensable to us.

现代文化生活话题（20）

THE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION

As is widely accepted, education is regarded as both an individual benefit & a social necessity. It is a general view that everybody has the right & obligation to become educated

We believe that, through education, an individual acquires the knowledge, skills, attitudes & abilities, which will enable him to fit into society & improve his social status. Education helps to shape the society & develop the national strength. Very often, people look to education as the cause of personal & national success & the care of social & economic ills, holding the view that the future of the human beings depends largely on education.

In short, the system of education has three principal functions: teaching, research & public service

现代文化生活话题（21）

ADULT EDUCATION IN CHINA

There are many ways of attaining education at all levels. Many high schools, colleges, or adult schools as well as business & industrial institutions offer noncredit daytime or evening classes in dozens of fields & skills.

It is reported that about 120 million Chinese participate in different forms of adult education through schools, job training, or correspondence courses.

About one in ten Chinese adults participate in an organized-learning group each year. In recent years, there has been a trend to bring in older students for post-secondary education degree. Colleges & universities, both public & private, offer what is now called” continuing education” programs, or “lifelong education” programs of associate degrees, graduates studies or professional development

Under such a system, a worker may continue his study even on a part-time basis, & a retired person may return to college at an advanced age.

现代文化生活话题（22）

FAMILY---TRADITIONAL & MODERN

Families are important to people all over the world although the structure of family is different from one country to another or from the modern family to the traditional one. Firstly, let’s see what similarities there are between the traditional & modern family. We can say both of them are nuclear families (with parents & their children as only members), & the role of the father in both types is to provide for his family while the mother takes care of the children’s physical & emotional needs;

Secondly, the differences between the two are also clear. For example, the traditional husband was the head of the household while today’s husband & wife share the role; And modern woman works outside the home even after she has children, namely, she’s doing two jobs instead of one, so preschool children may go to a child care center or to a baby-sitter regularly(sine the mother works)

No matter it is traditional or modern, every family has the sense as following: families offer us a feeling of belonging, of love & security.

现代文化生活话题（23）

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING KIND & POLITE

Being kind & polite means that your behavior shows respect for the rules that the majority follow, or in other words, act in a civilized way to avoid misunderstanding, friction & conflict

There are no laws enforcing respect. Yet we cannot interact with others without some rules of behavior, rules that are set by some form of social consensus

These guidelines represent what a majority of people consider acceptable & what they consider unacceptable. For instance, many people talk at movies, or make boring conversations with their cellular-phones and so on. In fact their behavior is closer to that of animals than civilized individuals. Remember, every little bit of kindness & good manners helps, namely, being polite & showing respect can give us an edge, & it is always a good idea to be kind & polite

现代文化生活话题（24） Fast food

Fast food is becoming more popular in China, especially among children and teenagers. There are several reasons for its popularity. First, it is very convenient and saves a lot of time.

You just go into a fast food restaurant, order your food, and your food is ready in no time. Second, its popularity is also attributed to it clean and comfortable environment, the excellent service, and the guaranteed quality of food.

However, in terms of nutrition, fast food is far from satisfactory. It usually does not compose a balanced diet and is low in nutritional value. While cooking at home offers healthy and delicious meals your body needs. Fast food is only a good choice when you are in a hurry and turn to it once in a while.

现代文化生活话题（25）

WHY DO WE NEED ENGLISH?

As the international language of diplomacy, commerce and technology, English is also the language of the United Nations and its agencies as well as of many other international bodies. To communicate in these areas outside our own country, we have to be aware of its widespread use.

English must be taught in all our schools, not only for the better communication with the world but also that our students can go abroad to learn the techniques our nation so urgently needs. We also need representatives who can command respect at the international conferences.

And if English is the common language of communications for all kinds of affairs, let us be as fluent and proficient in it as possible, for the sake of our own country’s advancement and prestige. 现代文化生活话题（26） ON ADVERTISEMENTS

Nowadays, ads generally are constructive to both manufactures and consumers in China. With ads, producers can become more popular, as a result, the consumers can purchase according to what ads say.

However, some ads are too deceiving not to be ridiculous. A case in point is an advertisement of drug, which declares on CCTV that the drug has became the absolute remedy for AIDS. It is well known that in our world so far there has been no official report on discovery of the cure for the fatal disease. Actually various consumers complain of being taken in by such deceiving ads over the country.

In this light, governments at all levels should exercise more rigid examination of ads before they a

re exposed to the public.

现代文化生活话题（27） KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

The saying “Knowledge is power” becomes universally accepted in that it reveals a simple yet brutal fact: It is the brain rather than sword that makes an individual or a nation strong. The truth the saying speaks has been proven in man’s civilization, which is, to the greatest extent, accelerated by man’s knowledge in the form of science and technology. A century ago, it took many-years to send a message to the other end of the world. Nevertheless, we can have it done in seconds today with just touches on computer keyboard.

“Knowledge is power” means something particular to us Chinese since China remains backward. We must sweat over knowledge so as to build China into one of the world’s economic giants.

现代文化生活话题（28） MY HOBBY

I have been collecting stamps at my leisure time for ten years I am so greatly interested in it that it has become a hobby with which I can’t part.

Stamp-collecting is a never-ending pleasure as well as an education for me. As I wander through the album from China to India, from South Africa to France, I learn many facts and historic data about distant lands, details of foreign customs, arts, literature and culture. There is always something to do in connection with it, from meeting like-minded collectors, exchanging stamps, getting advice to showing off the latest find. Stamp-collecting occupies my leisure hours constructively. It makes me contented, with no time for boredom.

I want to be a stamp-collecting NO.1 in my country. 现代文化生活话题（29） READING

Many people consider gold and silver as the most valuable things. They like these things more than anything else. I, on the contrary, put reading books first in the world.

The old saying, “to open a book is always beneficial”, sufficiently shows how good it is to read a book. Books are our friends, which introduce us to different kinds of knowledge and lead us to the road of greatness. They increase our knowledge, enlarge our experience, strengthen our character and do many other things which we might otherwise have failed to do.

Yet our life is limited and the knowledge is boundless. Therefore, we must make the best use of our time to read more books, thus to obtain more knowledge.

现代文化生活话题（30）

TELEVISON ADVERTISEMENT

Some people enjoy watching television advertisements; some people don’t think so. As to me, I’m really disgusted with television advertisements.

In the first place, the advertisements waste time. For instance, abort 15 minutes is lost by watching the advertisement during a single news program. In the second place, the advertisements interrupt the viewer. For example, the viewer may forget the situation of a show during the advertisement. Even worse, during a good movie, the watcher loses his feeling when the ad comes on, and that ha

s bad psychological influences. In the third place, the advertisements make many products more appealing than they really are.

Accordingly, the television viewer must be aware and critical of the advertisements in order to endure them.

现代文化生活话题（31） FAILURE IN LIFE

Failure is a common thing in our daily life. There are times when we fail to do satisfactory work. In short, failures happen naturally and almost everyone has such experience.

However, there are different attitudes toward failure. Some people lose confidence in failure. Some people don’t take failure seriously and they just let it be, while some others learn much from failure, and therefore see the light of hope through failure.

In my opinion, what really counts is not failure itself, but what we think of failure and do after failure. As long as we don’t give up and believe in ourselves, and in the meantime learn something from failure, we’ll certainly make our marks in this world in the end.

现代文化生活话题（32） EXAMINATIONS

In most schools, examinations are used as a chief means to find out whether a student succeeds or fails in his studies. Although they do the job quite efficiently, their side effects are also enormous. The worst effect is that examinations encourage bad study habits. Since examination score is probably the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is thus driven to memorize mechanically what need to be examined.

Examinations, instead of motivating a student to seek more knowledge, restrict his reading, and lower the standards of teaching. Actually, few of us admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the students’ academic development. If that’s the case, why can’t we make a change and devise something more productive and reliable than examinations?

现代文化生活话题（33） MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS

College students usually have to learn a variety of subjects. Once a student has chosen his specialty, he is obliged to learn all the subjects prescribed for his field of study no mater he likes them or not.

Yet, every student may have his own favorite subjects. Almost no student distributes his time evenly among all the subjects. Some may listen to English broadcasting for hours. Others may sit all day long before a computer. Only when the examination session approaches will he divert his attention from his favorite subject for a few days.

My favorite subject is English. It is regarded as “a world language” which not only can help me communicate more efficiently with foreigners but also help me learn the most advanced knowledge.

现代文化生活话题（34） MY IDEAL JOB

When we are asked what we want to be in the future, we have different answers. My ideal job is to

be an excellent teacher. If I am a teacher, Life will be more interesting and meaningful.

But I know it is not easy for me to be a good teacher, let alone an excellent one. Being a teacher needs knowledge, patience, skills, etc. I must study hard to answer most of my students’ questions. I must learn to be patient to tolerate my students’ slowness in acquiring new knowledge, I must have good skills to make myself understood clearly and quickly by my students.

So you see, different jobs require different talents. I will live up to be the name of a teacher.

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