读书比赛英语作文【一】
Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters. The characters have their own personalities. Mrs. Bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters. Mr. Bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, Mr. Darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior. Even the five daughters in Bennet family are very different. Jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others.
Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion. Mary likes reading classic books. (Actually she is a pedant. Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, Lydia. Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate. When I read the book, I can always find the same personalities in the society now. That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.
The family of gentleman in the countryside is Jane Austen’s favourite topic. But this little topic can reflect big problems. It concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in Britain in her century. You can find these from the very beginning of this book.
The first sentence in this book is impressive. It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.
People always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories. In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs. After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.
I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs. Bennet wants to marry off her daughters. If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time. Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions. Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. Jane Austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.
In “Pride and Prejudice”, the sister of Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband. The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.
In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind. A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages. Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our society. We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?
Austen left this problem for us to think. The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems. Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively. The plots in her works are always very natural. The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic. Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.
读书比赛英语作文【二】
这个星期五，我和胡涵，许文彬一起去参加英语讲故事比赛，这个参赛资格可是我好不容易才和别的同学争取来的，所以在练习时候要更尽心尽力了! 我还好在星期三上午，就把稿子背下来，星期四课间，上台表演就能发挥最好水平。
星期五，我就早早起床，穿好衣服，去化妆店，化上了妆，又把稿子背了几次，把书包放了就向城里出发。我们先坐16路再坐308。到了比赛场地，陈老师已经在那儿了。 我十分紧张。开始抽签了，看着周围陌生的脸，手心渐渐出了汗，但愿我不是第一个，但愿我能发挥出最好水平，但愿我不会出现差错。老师打开签，2号，老师暗自庆幸：“幸亏不是1号，也不在后面，听到后面，容易听觉疲劳。”可这时，我们又听到一个不好的消息：那排第一的学校没来，我先上。老师听了，马上对那个人说：“不行，再等一等，我们又没抽到1号，干什么让我们先?”我又排到了第三，终于轮到我了，我不能想象一个人站在一个大房子里，许多陌生人看着你那阴森的目光，太可怕了，我勉强挤出一丝笑容，走了进去，可当我一说起故事，我就不紧张了，讲完后，又蹦跳着出来，听见有位老师说：“这孩子的表情……” 我们学校比完后，老师带我们去玩了一会儿，吃了中饭就回了学校。 回到家，爸爸说我这次没说好，下次要做的更好，我也这么想的。 只要我尽力了，我就不后悔。
读书比赛英语作文【三】
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingways most enduring works.Told in language of great simplicity and power,it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman,down on his luck,and his supreme ordeal——a relentless,agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
Here Hemingway recasts,in strikingly contemporary style,the classic thene of courage in the face of defeat,of personal triumph won from los.
Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The novel is very famous in the world, so lot of people like this novel. We also studied it in our Chinese class, Hemingways novel are always interesting I like his novel much, also in his novel we can learn a lot by his meanings.
It’s really a good novel for people to read.
读书比赛英语作文【四】
I recently read the long-admired \"childhood in my college,\" a novel by Soviet writer gorky\'s most famous autobiographical trilogy.
This book mainly describes the difficult life experience of gorky himself in childhood, youth and youth. He was born at the age of four and lost his father at the age of four. His childhood was spent in his grandfather\'s house, and his grandfather often beat him. He is often ridiculed by others, but he does not let go, he does not complain, he is not sad, but he is willing to forge ahead with an enterprising heart. He had to sell his beloved book and leave the school class to buy medicine for his kindly grandmother. At the age of eleven, his mother died, and he became an orphan. In order to make a living, alisha was forced to enter the world. He had been a shoe-store boy, had been a baby-sitter, had been a dishwasher on a ship, had worked as a handyman in the holy works. He had done what the boss had done to him, and he had seen so many ugly things around him. But I\'m glad that none of this has intimidated alisher, making him a stronger, braver, more upright person. Under the very miserable conditions of his life, he still loved literature and often went hungry and kept reading. He didn\'t get originally want to go to college, but I learned a lot in university of \"social\" famous university less than knowledge, broadened horizons, raise the consciousness, finally grow up to be a revolutionary intellectuals.
I admire the indomitable spirit of alyosha and admire the spirit of literature. Children also feel ashamed at the same time, we now have the care of their parents and teachers to teach, but due to lack of \"wind and rain baptism,\" many of our classmates a little difficulty in learning life at ordinary times can be difficult to deal with. At the same time, many of us have good learning conditions, but we don\'t want to study hard. At the moment, I know what we should cherish this moment is perfect life, cherish this moment a good study time, following the example of golgi, strong and optimistic, strive forward, after be brought up.
