初一级英语周记优秀[精选5篇]

第一篇：初一级英语周记优秀

It is a fine day today.I with my friends decide to go outside for a picnic.So we go to the Tianmen Moun by bus.In the morning we walk around and enjoy our food.In the afternoon we climb the Moun and we have a good time on top of it.And then we go back home togather.初一级英语周记优秀范文2

Dear father,Father’s Day is coming.I’d like to say something to you.You always work hard so that I can receive a better education and live a better life.You are strict with me in my study and help me with my homework.When I failed an exam, you encouraged me to be confident and keep trying.When I had trouble in life, you always told me to be brave and smile at life.You have given me so much, not only in my study but also in my life.Thank you for your deep love.Thank you for all that you have done for me.I love you!I hope you will be healthy and happy forever!

Happy Father’s Day!

Yours,Li Hua

I have a very nice summer holiday this year.This year is 20xx,and world expo would held in Shanghai China.But for some reasons ,I can't go there.It may be a little pity for me.During this summer hoilday,I have done a lot of homeworks and go to a lot of places with my friends.It's really enjoyable.

My father works in a large company.He is very busy on weekdays, but he stays with me on weekends.He says he loves my mother and me, so he works that busy to earn us money.I love my father too, and his biggest wish is that I can go to university.So I will study very hard to make us a happy family.It is a fine day today.I with my friends decide to go outside for a picnic.So we go to the Tianmen Moun by bus.In the morning we walk around and enjoy our food.In the afternoon we climb the Moun and we have a good time on top of it.And then we go back home togather.初一级英语周记优秀范文2

Dear father,Father’s Day is coming.I’d like to say something to you.You always work hard so that I can receive a better education and live a better life.You are strict with me in my study and help me with my homework.When I failed an exam, you encouraged me to be confident and keep trying.When I had trouble in life, you always told me to be brave and smile at life.You have given me so much, not only in my study but also in my life.Thank you for your deep love.Thank you for all that you have done for me.I love you!I hope you will be healthy and happy forever!

Happy Father’s Day!

Yours,Li Hua

I have a very nice summer holiday this year.This year is 20xx,and world expo would held in Shanghai China.But for some reasons ,I can't go there.It may be a little pity for me.During this summer hoilday,I have done a lot of homeworks and go to a lot of places with my friends.It's really enjoyable.

My father works in a large company.He is very busy on weekdays, but he stays with me on weekends.He says he loves my mother and me, so he works that busy to earn us money.I love my father too, and his biggest wish is that I can go to university.So I will study very hard to make us a happy family.【初一级英语周记优秀范文】相关文章：

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第二篇：英语周记优秀

英语周记50字

（一）August 7,2014 Friday Today, I did housework for grandmother.She is not very healthy and I decide to do housework for her more frequently.And she will feel happy and become better.Suddenly, an idea hit me that it’s terrible to grow old becuase you have to worry about both your health and others’ opinions.Once again, I make a decision to be a good girl.译文：今天，我帮助了奶奶做家务。奶奶的身体不好。我以后要常帮她做事。这样她就会高兴身体也会好一些。突然觉得，人老了真不好。不但身体不会好，而且一不小心就会惹得大家讨厌。我又做了一个决定，以后一定要做个乖孩子。

英语周记50字

（二）Saturday, my grandma made dumplings, one of the dumplings like obedient little ducks swimming in the bowl.My in the mind have a little not to eat them.But the smell of fragrance and let me greedy slobber, I eat up tit-bit.But I eat dumplings, the heart have a kind of feeling can not tell.译文：星期六我奶奶家包饺子了，一个个的饺子像听话的小鸭子在碗里游来游去。我心里有点不忍心吃他们了。可是那扑鼻而来的香味又让我馋得流口水，我就大口大口地吃了起来。可是我吃完饺子，心里有一种说不出来的感觉。

英语周记50字

（三）The end of the summer, should have a good rest!But my mother is very busy.As the daughter of course I want to help my mother to do some.Early in the morning I got up, washed the dishes, sweep the floor, cooking and so on, at noon, I tired, lying on the bed, fan fan, more comfortable.译文：终于放暑假了，应该好好歇歇了！可是妈妈很忙。作为女儿的我当然要帮妈妈分担些了。(www.xiexiebang.com)一大清早的我就起来了，帮妈妈洗碗，扫地，做饭等等，到了中午，我快累死了，往床上一躺，扇扇电风扇，舒服多了。

英语周记50字

（四）Next week I would like to go to Kaifeng and parents.Kaifeng has many great snacks, such as steamed buns, sesame seed Gaul.Kaifeng also on the famous Qingming River Park, I think it has to be very beautiful.My parents will be opened to see my uncle and live in his house one night.译文：下周我要和父母去开封。开封有许多非常棒的小吃，比如小笼包子、高卢烧饼。开封还有著名的清明上河园，我想那一定非常的漂亮。我和父母将会在开封见到我的叔叔，并住在他家一晚。

英语周记50字

（五）What a fine day today!I’m very happy in this fine day.Beaucse today I don’t have to do my homework and I can play with my good friends.There is lots of snow now ,so we make a sonw man.That’s really intersting.We play with snow to about 6:30.Of couse I must go home now.What a fan day!

译文：多么好的天气阿！在这样的好天气里我非常高兴，因为今天我不用写作业，并且可以和朋友们出去玩。这里现在有很多雪，所以我们堆了一个雪人。那真的很有趣。我们玩雪，一直到晚上6：30。当然现在我必须回家了。多么有趣的一天啊！

英语周记50字

（六）I got up early this morning.After breakfast I went to the beach near my home with my friends.We went there by bike.As soon as we got there, we played with the sand and walked on the beach.We also went boating.It was really fantastic.In the afternoon I went to the library and read books there.I also helped my parents make dinner.After dinner I washed the dishes.In the evening I did my homework.Then I surfed the internet.I had a busy and interesting day.译文：我今天起床早。吃完早饭后我和朋友们去了我家附近的海滩。我们骑自行车去的。我们一到那里就玩沙子，在海滩走。我们也划船。很棒。下午我去图书馆看书。我也帮助父母做晚饭。饭后我洗碗。晚上我做作业，然后上网。我今天很忙也过得很愉快。

英语周记50字

（七）This morning I woke up at 6 o ’clock is to the kitchen for mom made a bowl of beef and tomato noodles, mother looked at me as she do breakfast is very happy, she finally put all eat noodles, very delicious, also say I grew up, not a kid, can look after himself, I listened also very happy.译文：今天早上我6点钟就醒来了然后到厨房为妈妈做了一碗牛肉西红柿面，妈妈看了我为她做的早饭很高兴，最后她把面条全部吃了，说很好吃，还说我长大了，不在是小孩了，可以自己照顾自己了，我听了也很开心。

第三篇：大学英语周记优秀

导语：大学是人生的关键阶段。这是因为，进入大学是你终于放下高考的重担，第一次开始追逐自己的理想、兴趣。以下是小编为大家整理的大学英语周记优秀范文，欢迎大家阅读与借鉴！

大学英语周记优秀范文（1）

Ya, each time meets writes Zhou Jidu to have to let oneself think,considers!Has impatience which that selects!Yes, teacher, I likes collecting the vehicle model very much,specially the racing bicycle, did not know is why, sees the attractivevehicle to be able to be unable to put down, very wants to go to haveit, but does not have that ability.Was always fantasizing own can have a real racing bicycle, replaces the foot which oneself is injured to run on the spacious street, then felt should be happiest, said at least regarding me!Because always likes fantasizing, own always have

very many is the average man thought not the normal response, does not want to study, likes a person being in a daze, a person window-shops,a person is having the camera traveling, always thought a person is

most romantic, but in other people's eye, that is the odd person.ButI am this!I like travelling, therefore I compare care about and deeply love English, I give own request am must learn English, other all do not matter outside, I want to go abroad, go to roam about one side,certainly I meet study, only is the way and the place which I studies disagrees others to be same, after all, I thought oneself present is wasting the time, the science subjects may say is cannot understand completely, attends class writes writes an article, reads, like this,a day-long day always that in vain waste, therefore I thought the next semester did not read, reads English wholeheartedly, Year studies the

good English for oneself, then starts own life journey!

Perhaps teacher, you can think my very rebel, but I am this, because I treasure my time very much, my life, I never knew my tomorrow could be any appearance, this world always in the change, will be able to handle oneself happy and the joyful matter after all, that will be I this fresh responsibility!

哎，每次遇到写周记都得让自己想一下，考虑一下！有那么点的不耐烦！

是的，老师，我很爱收集车模型，特别是跑车，不知道是为什么，看见好看的车就会爱不释手，很想去拥有它，但是还没那能力。总是幻想着自己能拥有一部真实的跑车，代替自己受伤的脚奔跑在宽大的马路上，那么感觉应该是最幸福的吧，至少对于我来说！因为总是喜欢幻想吧，自己总有很多是常人认为不正常的反应，不想读书，喜欢一个人发呆，一个人逛街，一个人带着相机旅游，总认为一个人就是最浪漫的，可是在旁人的眼里，那就是怪人。可我就是这样！

我喜欢旅游，所以我还是比较在乎和热爱英语的，我给自己的要求就是要学好英语，其他一切都无所谓，我想出国，去外面流浪，当然我还是会一边学习的，只是我学习的方式和地方不和别人一样而已，毕竟，我觉得自己现在是在浪费时间，理科可以说是完全听不懂，上课就写写文章，看看书，就这样，一天的日子总是那么白白的浪费了，所以我想下学期不读了，一心去读英语，给自己一年的时间去学习好英语，然后开始自己的人生路途！

老师，也许你会觉得我很叛逆，但是我就是这样，因为我很珍惜我的时间，我的生命，我永远不知道我的明天会是什么样子的，毕竟这个世界总是在变化的，能做自己开心和快乐的事情，那是我此生的责任！

大学英语周记优秀范文（2）

Hello everyone.Today I‘m glad to be here to give a speech about my fresh experience in China Agriculture University.First I must say the campus life is really different from what I have experienced in high school.For instance,I used to lean upon my dormitory teacher to wake me up on time.But now I have to set several alarm clocks to make myself could hear them in the morning otherwise I would miss my class.And then even worse there would be nobody remind me

except my teacher!So the differences are everywhere and I could easily find them.The change of life is great and it‘s wonderful:I have more time of my own and the rights to decide how I live.My campus activities are rich and colorful.Learning English has become a habit to me cause I plan to study abroad in next few years.Playing Guzheng is my favorite activity.I have kept on practising it since I was a little girl and I wish to win more competitions in my campus life.Our university has the first level equipments and the most experienced teachers,also has the best students(laugh).I consider it to be a honor that I‘ve got a chance to study here and I sincerely hope that we could live wonderful lives in our campus!

大家好，今天我很高兴能在这里做一个关于我的新鲜经验在中国农业大学演讲。

首先，我必须说，校园生活与我在高中时所经历的确实不同，例如，我曾经依靠我的宿舍老师准时叫醒我，但现在我必须设置几个闹钟让自己早上能听到它们，否则我会想念我的课，更糟糕的是没有人提醒我。

除了我的老师！因此，差异无处不在，我很容易找到它们。生活的变化是伟大的，它是美妙的：我有更多的时间，我自己的权利和决定我如何生活。

我的校园活动是丰富多彩的，学习英语已经成为我的习惯，因为我计划在未来几年留学。扮演Guzheng是我最喜欢的活动。我一直在练习的时候，我还是个小女孩的时候，我希望能在我的校园生活赢得了更多的比赛。

我们的大学有一流的设备和经验最丰富的老师，也有最好的学生（笑），我认为我有机会在这里学习是一种荣誉，我真诚地希望我们能在我们的校园里过上精彩的生活！

第四篇：英语周记

A few day of ago, Miss Hu asked some of us who were going to have the interview to write a PPT which as an introduction of ourselves.Although I didn’t write it, but I still got a lot of inspirations from it.I think that most of us, including me, still have to adjust to the new role now.I think we are lack of learn ability.We are not conscious of the importance of innovation ability.We can’t rich ourselves just when it is needed.It occurred to me that when we first got to NanChang city, we are criticized by the Manager.The reason was that he asked us to learn how to install and use the software but we just ignored it and did something else.We thought that it was the same as to what we did in QingDao city.We thought we just need to sit in the room and wait for someone to teach us.In fact, we took it for granted.It was just a tiny example.We must try to find the best way to enhance our efficiency.It was our duty.We know that Miss Hu was so anxious for seeing the improvement of us.We can see that from what she said in the QQ and what she wrote in the sina Weibo.We also want our department to become stronger and stronger.Beside the hard work, I think communication is also important and necessary.We open our heart to each other and discuss together.The GSC department does not belong to a single person.Its development depends on us.

第五篇：英语周记

Passage 16 New York May Never Win Its War on Rats Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants — humans.The video broadcast on television a week ago showed rats running wild at a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant just one day after the outlet had passed a city Health Department inspection.It took a bite out of the share price of parent company Yum Brands Inc.and forced a city Health Department shake-up that removed the inspector who conducted the review from duty and led to 13 more restaurant closures on Thursday.The owner of the KFC/Taco Bell franchise, ADF Companies, has closed 10 of its restaurants until they pass inspections, and the city closed three other restaurants because of unsanitary conditions or mice, the Health Department said.Yum Brands on Friday hired an urban pest control expert to review standards at its New York City restaurants.The Health Department warned that greater threats to public health include restaurant employees who fail to wash their hands or food stored at improper temperatures.One epidemiologist agreed.Still, the incident reinforces New York’s reputation of having a more severe rat problem than other big cities.New York’s crowded quarters force restaurants to store trash indoors until it can be collected, providing rats with an indoor food source.In addition, New York’s real estate boom means construction is pervasive, scattering rats to a wider geographic area.Passage 17 Beauty Industry With a bit of “physical preparation” — artificial breast implants, a nose job and a little trimming of fat from the hips — you too can aspire to be Miss World.So says Venezuela’s latest candidate for the world beauty contest.Andreina Prieto admitted that were it not for the help of cosmetic surgery, she probably would not have made the line-up.The raven-haired 19-year-old was chosen from among 40 other contestants to represent the South American country at the Miss World competition in South Africa.Prieto, wearing a blue bikini, told reporters that prior to entering the competition, she had three separate operations: one to improve the shape of her nose, a liposuction to remove fat from her hips and breast implants.“If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t be here,” she said.She displayed a brilliant smile, but did not say if that too was the result of surgery.Oil-rich Venezuela takes the beauty industry very seriously and has gained a reputation as a “factory” of international beauty contest winners.Venezuelan women have won five Miss World titles and four Miss Universe crowns.A private company, the Miss Venezuela Organization, specializes in preparing candidates for the Miss World and Miss Universe contests, and spends around $72,000 on each contender, in clothes, diets and, of course, cosmetic surgery.Passage 18 Population Growth The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant.According to paleoecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes.The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B.C., followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using.But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth.Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if , technology begins to yield fewer innovations.Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end.Either way — contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth — population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.Passage 19 Food and Health The food we eat seems to have a profound impact on our health.Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon.Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer.Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.The additives which we eat are not all so direct.Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows.Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons.The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market.Although the Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.Passage 20 UK Urged to Update Copyright Laws The UK is currently using copyright laws that are more than 300 years old.Ministers in the United Kingdom are being urged to modify copyright laws to allow users to be able to legally rip CDs and DVDs for personal use.The Institute for Public Policy Research(IPPR)wants users to have a “private right to copy” digital content.The IPPR acknowledged that the music and film industries are justified in battling illegal file sharing.But the IPPR argues that making copies for personal use does not have significant impact on copyright holders.Millions of Britons are violating current copyright laws by ripping CDs onto their MP3 players and /or PCs.Currently, Britons are violating an outdated 300-year-old law when copying CDs and DVDs.The British Phonographic Institute has already stated that it will not pursue its rights to bring private copying cases against users if the copying truly is for private purposes only.An independent research study reports that around 59 percent of Britons believe copying CDs and DVDs to other devices is legal.The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee inquiry admits that he and his children are in violation of the law.“My own view is that the current laws are unsatisfactory as it is difficult to say to consumers that this bit of the law matters and this bit doesn’t matter,” Conservative MP John Whittingdale said.Passage 21 A Growing Number of American Men Get Alimony Across the country, a growing number of divorced men are getting alimony from their former wives.While far more women receive alimony than men, divorce lawyers estimate that 5% to 10% of their male clients now get such payments, up from only 3% five years ago.Men seeking financial support from the rich and famous ex-wives have made headlines in recent years.But the ranks of ex-husbands getting alimony from their former spouses now are as likely to include the guy around the corner who gets a monthly check from an ex-wife whose bank account is fatter than his.“Women are getting better, higher-paying jobs at the same time that men’s wages are decreasing,” says Kathryn Rettig, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, explaining why the number of men receiving alimony is increasing.She adds，“If women want equality under the law, they have to take the responsibility for supporting dependent spouses.”

Like women, men are being awarded alimony for a few years as compensation for putting their wives through college or graduate school or for following transferred spouses around the country.And, like women, men are persuading judges to award them alimony indefinitely if they are sick or disabled or have stayed home to raise children.In out-of-court settlements, high-income women are even agreeing to pay alimony to their ex-husbands instead of giving them some property because alimony is tax-deductible.Passage 22(92)Rainbow I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky.It is so beautiful!There is a fairy tale saying whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold.Of course, it is not true.Neither could you find the pot of the gold, nor could you ever find the rainbow’s end.No matter how far you run, it always seems at a great distance.A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower.It is not solid, for it is only the effect of light shining on raindrops.The light from the sun shines on the rain as it falls to the earth.The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colors which we see.It is called a rainbow because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow.That is also why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky.We see a rainbow only during showers or storms, only when there is still rain in the air and the sun still shines brightly through the clouds.Every rainbow has many colors which are arranged in the same order.The first or the top color is always red, next comes orange, then yellow and green, and last of all the blue and deep blue or violet.A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.Passage 23 Gratuitous Gratuities Everybody loathes it, but everybody does it.A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans hate the practice.It seems so arbitrary, after all.In America alone, tipping is now a $ 16 billion-a-year industry.Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service.Tips should not exist.So why do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.The better the service, the bigger the tip.Such explanations no doubt explain the purported origin of tipping.In the 16th century, boxes in English taverns carried the phrase “To Insure Promptitude”(later just “TIP”).But according to new research from Cornell University, tipping no longer serves any useful function.The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants.The correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.Customers who rated a meal as “excellent” still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price.Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics.In America, the custom has become institutionalized: it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service.In Europe, tipping is less common.In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all.How to account for these national differences? Look no further than psychology.According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper’s co-author, countries in which people are more extrovert, sociable or neurotic tend to tip more.Tipping relieves anxiety about being served by strangers.Passage 24 Football Team’s Only Game Was Drugs They looked like a real football team — with snarling coach included.But the 10 men arrested at the weekend in Spain’s southern province of Cadiz were not going to play a match, despite their yellow and blue kit.They were drug traffickers who used their footballs, knapsacks and club strips, emblazoned with the team name of a local town, Guillen Moreno CF, as a ruse to fool border police as they passed from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in North Africa, to Algeciras, on the southern Spanish mainland, a police spokesman in Cadiz said.The fake team would usually cross the Straits of Gibraltar into the province of Cadiz on Saturday afternoons with the hash tucked beneath their jerseys and stage a drama to enhance their credibility before border agents.The supposed manager, 49, would carry a roster in his hand and continuously bark at the young men “Everybody pay attention, everybody stay right here!” and “Come on, follow me!”.The players would cross back to Ceuta on Sundays after the fictional match and actual drug sales in Spain.Police do not know how long the fake season lasted before a tip spurred an investigation.The game ended when officers stopped their cars in Cadiz and found a total of 16kg of hash hidden beneath the men’s strips in little pellets taped to their bodies.Passage 25(93)Sleep Sleep is a part of a person’s daily activity cycle.There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles.If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows.When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, and your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular.Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes.This is called stage 1 sleep.For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep.The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be.Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all.Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm.This is stage 4 sleep.You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly.The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves.Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids.This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep.It is during REM sleep period that your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow and regular once more, and you will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep — only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.Passage 26 Face and Fortune Recently, at the instigation of my publisher, I had some photographs taken.I do not enjoy the process of being photographed.However, after I compared the new photograph with one taken twenty-five years ago, my feminine vanity suffered.My first instinct was to have the prints “touched up”.As I thoughtfully considered the photographs, I knew that a still more important principle was involved.A quarter century of living should put a great deal into a woman’s face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.In that length of time she has become intimately acquainted with pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, life and death.She has struggled and survived, failed and succeeded.She has lost and regained faith.And, as a result, she would be wiser, gentler, more patient and more tolerant than she was when she was young.Her sense of humor should have mellowed, her outlook should have widened, and her sympathies should have deepened.And all this should show.If she tries to erase the imprint of age, she runs the risk of destroying, at the same time, the imprint of experience and character.I know I am more experienced than I was a quarter century ago and I hope I have more character.I released the pictures as they were.Passage 27(94)Readers Reveal Stuff of Dreams Psychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams.A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades.People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense.The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares.But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat.According to Mark Blagrove of the University of Wales, the study is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams.Dr.Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies.They found that 58% of all adults had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming — and that women could recall more dreams than men.Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares.About 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading.Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don’t.Passage 28 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known, as the king of steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America.His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves.“He who dies rich, dies disgraced, ” he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history.He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.Passage 29 Princess Diana What was it about Diana, Princess of Wales that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess.To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction.Diana was beautiful, in a fresh-faced, English, outdoors-girl kind of way.She used her big blue eyes to their fullest advantage, melting the hearts of men and women through an expression of complete vulnerability.Diana’s eyes, like those of Marilyn Monroe, contained an appeal directed not to any individual but to the world at large.Please don’t hurt me, they seemed to say.She often looked as if she were on the verge of tears, in the manner of folk images of the Virgin Mary.Yet she was one of the richest, most glamorous and socially powerful women in the world.This combination of vulnerability and power was perhaps her greatest asset.Passage 30 A Greek to Remember Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who established the philosophy of cynicism.He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something.When questioned about his odd behavior, he would reply, “I am searching for an honest man.”

Diogenes held that the good man was self-sufficient and did not require material comforts or wealth.He believed that wealth and possessions constrained humanity’s natural state of freedom.In keeping with his philosophy, he was perfectly satisfied with making his home in a large tub discarded from the temple of Cybele, the goddess of nature.This earthen tub, called a pithos, and formerly been used for holding wine or oil for the sacrifices at the temple.One day, Alexander the Great, conqueror of half the civilized world, saw Diogenes sitting in this tub in the sunshine.So the king, surrounded by his countries, approached Diogenes and said, “I am Alexander the Great.” The philosopher replied rather contemptuously, “I am Diogenes, the Cynic.” Alexander then asked him if he could help him in any way.“Yes,” shot back Diogenes, “don’t stand between me and the sun.” A surprised Alexander then replied quickly, “If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”