一、社会问题
1、财富问题
The Relationship between Wealth and Happiness Wealth has always been what some people long for. It is true that most of them try to acquire wealth by means of honest labor. Their efforts contribute to the welfare of the society and at the same time to the accumulation of their wealth, and hence to their happiness.
财富一直是有些人所渴望的对象。确实，大多数人努力通过诚实的劳动来获取财富。他们的努力对造福社会有好处，同时也促进了他们财富的积累，因此也使他们更幸福。
There is no doubt that wealth brings happiness, especially in the modern society. Various kinds of up-to-date household appliances, latest fashions and recreations make their appearance with each passing day. All this makes our life more comfortable and colorful. Therefore, without money we cannot turn admiration into reality.
毫无疑问，尤其是在现代社会里，财富带来幸福。各种现代化的家用电器、时装和娱乐层出不穹、 日新月异。这一切使我们的生活更为舒适、丰富多彩。因此,没有金钱，我们就无法把羡慕变成现实。
Wealth, however, can also lead to disasters, if we have an inappropriate approach to it. Wealth may tempt weak-willed persons to be addicted to harmful habits, such as drug-taking and gambling, and result in their own ruin. Besides, a person maylose his reason and go astray if he intends only to seek wealth and indulges himself in leading a luxurious life. For example,there are some government officials who take advantage of their positions to take bribes from the people turning to them forhelp. Obviously, wealth may bring us disasters if we don’t take a proper attitude to it.
但是，如果我们不能正确对待财富，那财富也会导致灾难。它可以促使意志薄弱者养成恶习，如吸毒或赌博，并导致他们自身的毁灭。此外，如果一个人一心追求财富并沉溺于奢侈的生活，他就会失去理智、误入岐途。例如,甚至还有一些政府官员利用他们的职位向求助者索贿。显然，如果我们不能正确对待财富的话，它也可能给我们带来灾难。
In my opinion, on no account can we equate happiness with wealth. I also believe that one should never reckon only on wealth to achieve happiness. (224 words)
依我看,无论如何我们也不能把财富和幸福等同起来。我还认为人们永远也不应该只依仗财富去获得幸福。
二、自身建设问题
1、建立自信
Building up Self-Confidence
Self-confidence, as is approved by research and practice, has an amazingly powerful influence on the output of people’s activities. Patients who believe that they’ll recover soon generally cures faster than those who think they won't. Students with optimistic characters usually provide better performance, even if they work the same hard as others. Although someone may regard such conclusion as superstitious, it does take place everyday and everywhere.
Neural scientists have discovered that, when a man feels confident, his brain will secrete some kinds of hormone that boost brain activity and improve the efficiency of his immune system. In contrast, a melancholic brain is suppressed by other chemicals and cannot fully exhibit its potential.
To help building up self-confidence, you can take the following two steps. First, identify your merits and value them. If you constantly compare your weakness to others’ advantages, you'd only gain frustration rather than confidence. Second, track every little progress you’ve made and review them frequently. You may not possibly become perfectly successful in one day, but if only you can see yourself growing gradually, surely you’re on the right way.
There're also other methods making you more confident that depend on yourself to find out, and they’re all necessary elements to make you more competitive in your area.
2、提高个人修养 Shaping the Morality
According to a survey, more than two thirds of people inChinaagree that, the public moral level is lower than before. This figure, although hard to accept, has indicated the fact that the nation’s overall morality is declining.
If you pay some attention, you could easily point out some improper behaviors happening around: young men refusing to give seats to the old on buses; shoppers jamming into queue instead of waiting in line; crude riders neglecting red lights, etc. So what the hell is going on?
As analysts have figured out, this trend of degradation mainly originated from faulty education. For decades, Chinese schools simply infuse bookish knowledge to their students, whilst moral cultivation becomes a kind of formalism; on the other hand, children are naturally influenced by their family and other adults in the society, most of whom are too sophisticated to be considered as eligible moral models.
Facing such disappointing condition, you may ask: how can things become better? As far as I am concerned, we must following these three steps. First of all: self-shaping. We should manage ourselves well, and try to shape our own morality as perfect as possible. The second step: family-shaping, which is to behave as the model for your children and improve their moral status through strict discipline. The third: organization-shaping. If you are leading people, such as being a manager or national president, you could reinforce your whole organization’s moral situation with policy and your own action.
Even if you're no leader, you’ll have a positive impact on the society if only you manage yourself well and try to influence others as much as possible.
三、自然问题
1、危险活动的吸引力 The Attraction of Dangerous Activities
In the past, people often faced many dangers in their daily lives. They had to cope with not only natural disasters and frequent outbreaks of disease, but also dangerous animals and warfare. The need to hunt and to protect their territory from other people required them to be skilled in the use of weapons. In addition, any travel also involved great risk as there were few roads and bridges. Nowadays, people do not have to live with such dangers on a daily basis, and yet many people choose to involve themselves in risky activities such as dangerous sports. I believe the following reasons can explain the attraction of such activities.
One reason people are attracted to risky activities is that hey crave excitement. The thrill of mountain climbing or bungee jumping can satisfy their need to break out of their routine. Without the excitement of such sports, they may feel bored with their lives. Another reason people like such activities is that these activities often require a certain amount of skill. Learning to drive a racecar or hang-glide may satisfy the desire to excel and give the participant a feeling of accomplishment and personal confidence in his abilities.
A final reason that people may choose to engage in risky activities is that they want to stand out from the crowd. By developing a skill that others don’t have, they can feel unique.
For all of these reasons, I believe that risky activities will continue to be popular with some people. In fact, it seems that as soon as one activity becomes safer or commonplace, thrill seekers come up with a new way to challenge their skills and courage.
2、资助环保 Money for the Environment
Both the arts and protecting the environment are important causes, and both are often underfunded. They depend on government grants and private donations in order to continue. If a company were to give a sum of money to one of these causes, it would be difficult to choose between them. However, I believe that the company should put the money toward protecting the environment for the following reasons.
First, the state of the environment affects everyone, and it affects people in a very important way. If mankind destroys the environment, we will not be able to survive. The arts are important to our quality of life, but the environment is important both to the quality of life and to life itself. Second, because industry causes much of the damage to the environment, I believe that companies have some responsibility to support conservation and cleanup efforts. Finally, protecting the environment is a bigger problem, and so requires a higher level of funding than the arts. A company's donation to the arts may be more visible, but one to the protection of the environment would be more meaningful.
In conclusion, while both the arts and environmental protection are worthy causes, I believe the company should make its donation to an environmental cause. The environment affects everyone in important ways and protecting it is a big job. Hopefully, private donations will help to improve both our environment and our lives.
3、节约能源 Save the Energy Resources
Another round of energy crisis is knocking at the door. In 2004, world oil consumption reached a new record, causing oil price in the international market to skyrocket amazingly. As forChina, it was reported that many traditional mineral cities in northeastern China had run into predicament, with their economy collapsed and workers unemployed, only because coal had been mined out.
Fossil energy resources, including coal, oil and gas, are unlike sunlight, water power and wind power which are generated consistently. They're not practically reproductive during human history. Once consumed, they're gone forever. If they were to be exhausted before we could find sufficient reproductive resources to replace them with, we’d have to live in entire blackout again like our ancestors have done thousands of years ago. That’s of course not what anyone would want to see.
Due to technical limitations, people still have to utilize these resources now.
As a result, we must economize them most cleverly. New techniques should be developed and applied to reduce energy cost in industry and daily life. Alternative energy should be employed wherever possible. Eradicate any practice that wastes energy. Humans have overcome so many crises in history, and we're sure to win this time also.
穿插一个别的英语作文，对于大学生可以无视，初中生以下的可以参考。
My mother's birthday
My mother is 36 years this year.Do you you what her date of birth is?Oh,let me ask you.
我的妈妈今年36岁了。你知道她的生日么?哦，我来告诉你吧。
Her date of birth is September 14th(根据实际情况).Today is her the thirty-six birthday.We want give her a surprise.
她的生日是XX月XX日。今天是她的36岁生日。我们想给她一个惊喜。
My sister 、my father and I buy a cake,some flowers and her favorite food.When she get home， The lamp suddenly on.
我的爸爸、妹妹和我买了一个蛋糕、一些花儿、一些她最喜欢的食物给她。
We shout,happy birthday to you!My mother is very exciting.She kiss me and we all happy.The dinner is delicious.
Today is happy!
当她回家时，灯突然亮了。我们喊着：祝你生日快乐!我的妈妈非常激动，她亲了我并且我们都很高兴。晚餐很美味。
这是快乐的一天!
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