1006G[REBORN FROM THE ASHES组]备考日记 by natalie月光石(勇敢的人能看见奇迹)

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"相信我,上天会厚待那些勇敢的,坚强的,多情的人......"

这是我在<恋爱的犀牛>里面最喜欢的一句台词.其实,我们都知道上天不会厚待任何人,这句话更像是一种执拗的自我期许.
勇敢的,坚强的,对我来说,是人能选择的最好的状态.

人最重要的品质是什么?
我的答案是:勇敢.

我常常在处于悲观的状态,对自己的处境很难抱有满足的态度.
比如,离开了相爱两年多的恋人,只因为明白我们之间一个准备出国,一个着手工作,很难有一个共同的未来.
........

为了还看不清的未来,就这样大踏步着向前走吧.
你不能恐惧任何东西,即便是刀锋也要迎上去.
这是人的骄傲之处.保有勇敢的心就一切都有可能.

p.s.在gter里我看到有朋友说5点就起床K书,同学我好佩服你!加油!
     现在,我的msn状态就是:不能睡.
     不能睡.因为要在一个月多的时间里翻译完一本书.
     不能睡.因为GRE GPA 专八 哪个都不能松懈一点点
     所以亲爱的朋友们!让我们勇敢地挑战极限吧!
     因为勇敢的人能看见奇迹!

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2楼留给斑斑.

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多一个嘴.
因为今晚才发现草木大人的作业...
我后悔的要撞墙啦!
快去加班啦!

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关于【Fundamental Course of Writtng】基础写作每日一讲（1）20 Questions for Writers

想过20问，下笔如有神
我想这20个问题对所有写作都有帮助
主要过程可总结为：
1.下定义
2.描述
3.分析
4.分类
5.比较
6.演绎
7.罗列信息
8.记叙
9.刻画与描述
10.评价
11.总结

生活化之，这就是一个把书从薄读到厚，再从厚读到薄的过程。要想写作，首先肚子里得有墨水。当墨水存够了就该选择如何下笔了。
官方issue范文是这么评价6分作文的：This outstanding response displays cogent reasoning, insightful, persuasive analysis, and superior control of language.

所以先抛开语言掌控能力不谈，逻辑和分析能力是最基础的东西。

我们首先要做到的不是长篇累牍地堆积高级词汇还是给我们的文章装上一颗奔腾的“芯”。

natalie月光石UID：2635526

终于，终于，终于！
在第一遍红宝痛苦地结束之后，我终于终于终于....又开始了第二遍....
还记得那时每天5点多起床，骑着单车奔麦当劳的鸡动，可是现在能做到的只有3点睡7点起...
杯具啊！杯具....
今天的两个list背完了，可是，我有一个问题，第二遍还要用杨鹏17天吗？

哪位大人来推荐一个适合二度背词的方法呢？
小女子这厢多谢了！

qqqaaazzzUID：2634671

杨鹏是在单词不太熟悉而且时间比较充裕的时候用，lz才开始第二遍，如果时间充裕的话应该可以用杨鹏，LZ加油~~

natalie月光石UID：2635526

啊,对了.
早晨看到一篇奥运经济的文.没什么生词,权当练速度和唤醒沉睡的大脑用的.有些句式很漂亮,可以借鉴.

贴出来吧!是 new york times上的~

Company Finds Gold in Torch Relay
November 6, 2009
By Kevin Helliker

If everything goes according to plan, blustery winds and frigid temperatures won't snuff out a Grecian flame that began traveling across Canada last week in the 106-day kick-off event for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

The responsibility for the relay's success falls on Ignition Inc., a small family-owned business that has found success by making itself an expert in an unusual niche: The Atlanta company has organized six Olympic torch relays since 1998, often battling elements that make the event a challenge befitting the Games themselves.

For last year's Beijing Olympics, Ignition had to manage China's bumpy roads and poor infrastructure. In Turin, Italy, in 2006, the company resorted to scooters to travel steep and narrow roads. And for Athens's international torch relay in 2004, the company shepherded torch bearers through 27 countries in 35 days, dealing with the logistical hassle of securing visas, clearing security and dealing with a multitude of languages nearly every step of the way.

"They have found a nice little niche," says Ken Bernhardt, a marketing professor at Robinson College of Business of Georgia State University, who says the company's strength lies in its ability to pull a part-time work force. "Ignition is the poster child of how to do it well."

The marketing company, which has 53 employees and $23 million in annual revenue, manages the often-chaotic event for Coca-Cola Co., a main sponsor of the Olympic Torch Relay. In 1996, the International Olympic Committee opened up the traditional touring of the Olympic flame as a commercial property that could be sponsored; since then, Coca-Cola has sponsored the event for every Olympics except the 2000 Games in Sydney.

Ignition's co-founder, Susan McWhorter Driscoll, was a marketing director at Coca-Cola and directed its first sponsorship of a torch relay for Atlanta's 1996 Games. A year later, she and husband Mark Driscoll founded Ignition to host future sporting events, eventually turning over day-to-day operations in 2007 to their nephew, Mike Hersom, who is Ignition's president, and his wife, Cindy-Ann Hersom, who serves as Ignition's chief marketing officer.

Coca-Cola says it works with Ignition because of the company's "specialty expertise." The Olympics torch relay is one of Ignition's largest businesses, but the company also provides event-based marketing for a few corporate clients like BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.

Ignition's main task is to engineer a party-like atmosphere throughout the communities that the torch travels. In past Olympics, that's been difficult because of language and cultural barriers, or because of rules imposed by the host country. In China, for example, Ignition wasn't permitted to hand out Coca-Cola products, shake people's hands or distribute flags—its usual methods of firing up crowds. Instead, Ignition's staff hired locals to engage Chinese fans by singing, cheering and dancing while riding on the relay's caravan of vehicles.

Ignition's biggest challenge in the Canadian relay is expected to be the weather—snow, blizzards and 50 mile-per-hour winds are anticipated—and the sheer distance of the event, which will require 40% of the relay to be run at night. By day, Ignition, which hires hundreds of local workers along the way, must rally crowds and host two community celebrations daily.

And that will be tough, says Mr. Hersom. "This will be bloody cold," he says. "It's incredibly difficult to keep these people motivated."

The weather will also make it difficult to keep the torch lit. The entourage will carry several backup flames in a truck that follows the runner—all of which were lit from the mother flame in Olympia, Greece.

The Vancouver Olympics is the longest torch relay that Ignition has managed in a single country.To counteract torch-relay fatigue this year, Amanda Daniels, Ignition's vice president of global projects, has set up a team whose main job is to motivate employees, from evening massages and movie nights to helping with laundry and giving a huge Christmas celebration. "It's quite a logistical challenge for sure," Ms. Daniels says.

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6# qqqaaazzz
啊!明白了~
多谢多谢!

qqqaaazzzUID：2634671

呵呵，互相帮助，共同进步，加油~

natalie月光石UID：2635526

【Fundamental Course of Writtng】基础写作每日一讲（2）Writing Anxiety
&（3）Writer's Block

writhing Anxiety是我们刚刚开始面对AW的共同心理体会。
不管肚子里有没有货，总觉得是要倒不出来的样子...
If we let our anxiety overwhelm us, it can cause problems. If we control that anxiety, however, we can make it work for us. One way to do that is to use some of the coping strategies listed below.

关键词在于“集中精神”和“合理利用时间”
通过训练和自我调节，将见到一个题目后心里“咚咚”跳，满脑子飘思路，飘例子的时间减少。或者说提高过滤没有的思路和例子的效率。
当然保证有东西能侃侃而谈是必须。

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【Fundamental Course of Writtng】基础写作每日一讲（4）start to write & （5）Writing With Computers

这5讲主要是讲写作的前期准备。
在写作之前，要问问自己：
（1）关于这个话题你想说些什么？描述？评价？发表感想？表示认同？
（2）好了！意识乱流吧！大脑运转吧！小宇宙燃烧吧！
（3）该打住了~都想了些什么有用的东西？来归类吧~
（4）将闪光点排列吧！你排第一，你排第二，你排第三~哈哈，初稿成型啦！拉开电源看看，圣诞树亮啦~

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第二次作业:
【题目】

ISSUE13

Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct.

ARGUMENT143

Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in the United States is misleading. The article gives the mistaken impression that many competent workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this impression is contradicted by a recent report on the United States economy, which found that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated. The report also demonstrates that many of those who lost their jobs have found new employment. Two-thirds of the newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time.

*Downsizing is the process in which corporations deliberately reduce the number of their employees.

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——【Fundamental Course of Writtng】第六讲笔记

What is a thesis?

A thesis statement declares what you believe and what you intend to prove. （主题句说明你的观点和要论证的论点）A good thesis statement makes the difference between a thoughtful research project and a simple retelling of facts.（事实和论据不是主题句！）
A thesis statement is a sentence (or sentences) that expresses the main ideas of your paper and answers the question or questions posed by your paper. It offers your readers a quick and easy to follow summary of what the paper will be discussing and what you as a writer are setting out to tell them. The kind of thesis that your paper will have will depend on the purpose of your writing.
A good tentative thesis will help you focus your search for information. But don't rush! You must do a lot of background reading before you know enough about a subject to identify key or essential questions. You may not know how you stand on an issue until you have examined the evidence. You will likely begin your research with a working, preliminary or tentative thesis which you will continue to refine until you are certain of where the evidence leads.
The thesis statement is typically located at the end of your opening paragraph. (The opening paragraph serves to set the context for the thesis.) 注意，这里明确的指出了，主题句（thesis statement）必须出现在开头段（opening paragraph）的最后！
月光石的碎碎念
（1）能说明你的观点和论点
（2）必须在开头的最后一句，所以确保阅卷人能看到。
（3）主题句要简单明晰！

主题句& AW

In an argumentative paper, you are making a claim about a topic and justifying this claim with reasons and evidence. （表明态度和给予解释）

However, this claim must be a statement that people could possibly disagree with, because the goal of your paper is to convince your audience that your claim is true based on your presentation of your reasons and evidence.
（我想这点很重要，因为这样选择可以使阅卷人感受到你的组织说明能力。毕竟如果选择了一个简单易解释的claim，人们会觉得boring...这就是所谓的光荣的荆棘路吧？:$）


Example: Barn owls' nests should not be eliminated from barns because barn owls help farmers by eliminating insect and rodent pests.
A reader who encountered this thesis would expect to be presented with an argument and evidence that farmers should not get rid of barn owls when they find them nesting in their barns.

Questions to ask yourself when writing an argumentative thesis statement:
•        What is my claim or assertion?
•        What are the reasons I have to support my claim or assertion?
•        In what order should I present my reasons?

Attributes of a good thesis:
（1）contestable：proposing an arguable point that people could reasonably disagree
（2）specific and focused：
简洁有效，不要假大空，要有针对性。
（3）give your conclusion based on evidence:specific examples are indispensable
（4）be cautious of using vague language and fist person.

公式：Specific topic + Attitude/Angle/Argument = ThesisWhat you plan to argue + How you plan to argue it = Thesis

三、如何检验自己写好的主题句是否合格？

月光石的碎碎念:
看过这段之后,我发现这几个问题是避免说废话,提高文章质量的经典问题.
所以,很多时候,甚至在日常生活中的英文交流中,也可以借鉴注意.:victory:
•Does the thesis  inspire a reasonable reader to ask, "How?" or Why?" 吸引读者思考
•Would a reasonable reader NOT respond with "Duh!" or "So what?" or "Gee, no kidding!" or "Who cares?" 避免出现so what问题
•Does the thesis  avoid general phrasing and/or sweeping words such as "all" or "none" or "every"? 避免绝对的论调
•Does the thesis lead the reader toward the topic sentences (the subtopics needed to prove the thesis)? 主题句是否引导了下文的分论点或者段主题？
•Can the thesis be adequately developed in the required length of the paper or project? 主题句是否可以适合被展开论述？
If you cannot answer "YES" to these questions, what changes must you make in order for your thesis to pass these tests?

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关于语法狂贴SU & SY SO
我不是语法狂人，这么多年来，语法在我脑子里就像一锅大浆糊。
但是，不知道怎么的，没有在语法上栽过跟头。甚至连考专四也一样语法上没有什么失分的得了优秀。
但是我想，写作中的语法确实是不容小觑。
某位本站名人说：语法和文法是我们的基础，没有基础，在高深的思维也是茶壶里煮饺子。
哈哈～此人是谁呢？做了作业的朋友都知道啦～;P
嗯嗯。
开始语法大餐！