2025年6月大学英语四级作文欣赏

　　2 Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer.

　　3 I always encourage such people,

　　4 but I also explain that there’ a big difference

　　5 between “being a writer” and writing.

　　6 In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame,

　　7 not the long hours alone at the typewriter.

　　8 “You’ve got to want to write,”

　　9 I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”

　　10 The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair.

　　11 For every writer kissed by fortune,

　　12 there are thousands more whose longing is never requited.

　　13 Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty.

　　14 I did.

　　15 When I left a 20-year career in the Coast Guard to become a freelance writer,

　　16 I had no prospects at all.

　　17 What I did have was a friend with whom I’d grown up in Henning, Tennessee.

　　18 George found me my home ―

　　19 a cleaned-out storage room in the Greenwich Village apartment building

　　20 where he worked as superintendent.

　　21 It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom.

　　22 Immediately I bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.

　　23 After a year or so, however,

　　24 I still hadn’t received a break and began to doubt myself.

　　25 It was so hard to sell a story that I barely made enough to eat.

　　26 But I knew I wanted to write.

　　27 I had dreamed about it for years.

　　28 I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering,

　　29 “What if?” I would keep putting my dream to the test ―

　　30 even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure.


　　2 One of the most successful,

　　3 influential and beloved women in American history,

　　4 Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret:

　　5 she wished she had been prettier.

　　6 Who hasn’t felt the same way?

　　7 We are all too aware of our physical imperfections.

　　8 To overcome them,

　　9 we spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on cosmetics,

　　10 diet products, fashion, and plastic surgery.

　　11 Why do we care so much about how we look?

　　12 Because it matters.

　　13 Because beauty is powerful.

　　14 Because even when we learn to value people

　　15 mostly for being kind and wise and funny,

　　16 we are still moved by beauty.

　　17 No matter how much we argue against it or pretend to be immune,

　　18 beauty exerts its power over us.

　　19 There is simply no escape.

　　20 Aristotle said,


　　2 In spite of the fact that examinations have been hated by most of the students

　　3 as well as some teachers for decades,

　　4 they still survive and show no signs of fading away.

　　5 In our system of education today,

　　6 examinations are a common feature.

　　7 Our present education system has often been criticized

　　8 as too examination-oriented.

　　9 However, one must remember that in offices and other areas of work,

　　10 examinations still feature clearly.

　　11 There is no doubt that the fear and influence of examination

　　12 cause much preparation work.

　　13 So it therefore appears that examinations,

　　14 whether considered good or bad,

　　15 would stay for a while as a test of human knowledge.

　　16 Examinations are meant to test the intellect of a person,

　　17 how much he knows or how he has learnt from a particular course.

　　18 It is designed to make students study,

　　19 which should be their immediate mission in life.

　　20 In our competitive world of today,