诚信与责任（人生观）honesty and Responsibility
It is true that most of us value honesty highly. However, nowadays we often
confront confidence crisis such as cheating, overcharging, fake commodities and so on. I think that we should be honest because being honest is not only beneficial to ourselves but also to others and the whole society. The reasons can be listed as follows.
Firstly, only honest people can be truly respected by the others and can make more friends over a long period of time.
Secondly, honesty, which is the traditional virtue of the Chinese people, can make our life easier and more goodliness.
Thirdly, honesty can make our society more stable. A case in point is that Singapore, a society featuring trustworthiness and integrity, has a comparatively low criminal rate. Responsibility can be understood in many ways. For the parents, they have had the
responsibility for caring for and fostering their children since the birth of their baby. For teachers, both in kindergartens and colleges, they also should be responsible for the study and life of their students, that is to say, teachers are the second parents of children somewhile. For us, as a friend of others, it is our responsibility to help our friends when they are in trouble or faced with difficulties.
Each one has the different responsibility based on their roles ,but we must take it for granted that we are responsible for the society.
（价值观——宽容与尊重）
Tolerance and respect
No matter great people or normal people, they all have temper. They will get angry if they feel humiliated, which is understandable. But have we thought whether our over-extreme words will hurt others? For most of the circumstances, people don't have too many conflicts with each other, most of arguments occur just because both sides won't give in.
People all care about their self-respect, especially Chinese. Self-respect is abstract and unpredictable, but is the tinniest standard in Chinese social interactions. When we say respect 1
others, we mean not to hurt others' self-respect. Respect gives people power and honor. It lives among us though we can't see or hear.
The most impolite thing is to disrespect somebody. They might hate you for a lifetime for this. Learning to respect others is not easy. First, we should show respect form the bottom of our heart without making others think we're superficial. Second, every little action, every small expression might hurt people. I remember a few friends of mine lost their opportunity just because of some small mistakes. For example, if a student asks a teacher a question and the teacher replies that it's easy. The student might feel humiliated and won't ask the teacher again. He might even lose the excitement to learn.
The different backgrounds we have result in our different values. So nobody has the right to force others to accept their ideas. So we have to be tolerant. As long as he or she doesn't violate your basic regulation, why not treat it in a tolerant way? Even if they have made you unhappy, just let it gone with the wind.
To be tolerant, you can’t speak extreme words. You might get in trouble just because of some words you think can bring you temporary pleasure. Even if you're criticizing people, you should try to be mild.
Tolstoy is a great author. But his life is a tragedy, mostly resulted from his marriage. His wife's ever-lasting complain had put him to death. When Tolstoy was 82, he could bear his wife anymore and ran out of his house. He ended up dead in the railway station. Before he died, his only requirement was that his wife wouldn't be allowed to be with him. Lincoln was also like him. Some people say that the greatest tragedy in Lincoln's life wasn't that he was shot dead but his wife, Mary. For 23 years, he had to tolerate his wife's noise.
So come on everybody, show more respect and be more tolerant.
宽容与尊重
无论伟人还是凡人，是人总有脾气。如果受到了羞辱，人总会发怒，这也不难理解。但是我们有没有想过自己太过极端的话语是否会给他人带来伤害呢？在大多数情况下，人是不愿争锋相对的，大多数的争执之所以会发生，就是因为双方都不肯做出让步。
我们都很在意自己的自尊心，特别对中国人来说，自尊心更是重中之重。虽然它只是一个抽象且无法预测的概念，但在中国社会活动中，自尊却是最基本的一个元素和标准。当我 2
们说到要尊重他人的时候，我们指的是不要伤害到别人的自尊心。别人对你的尊重能给你力量，让你更加自豪。这种感觉虽然看不见摸不着，但确实能够长久存在。
最不礼貌的事情就是不尊重他人了，不尊重别人可能会让别人讨厌你一辈子。学会尊重别人并不简单。首先，我们要从心底里显示出自己对于他人的敬意而不让人觉得虚伪。其次，每一个小小的动作甚至细微的表情都可能伤害到别人，我还依稀记得有几个朋友就因为小小的错误失去了工作机会。假如一个学生问老师问题，老师回答说这题很简单的话，学生可能就会感觉受到羞辱、以后再也不问问题了，他甚至有可能因此失去学习的兴趣和动力。
不同的背景造成了我们价值观的各异，谁都没有强迫别人接受自己想法的权利，因此，我们需要宽容。只要他人没有侵犯你最基本的准则，为什么不用一种宽容的态度对待他/她呢？就算别人让你不开心了，也只是暂时的浮云，一切都会过去的。
要成为一个宽容大度的人，就不能说话太极端，因为一时冲动想满足自己的快感，你说出的话就像泼出去的水一样难以收回了，麻烦也会接踵而来。即使你在批评别人，也应该尽量使用温和的字眼。
托尔斯泰是一个伟大的作家，但他的一生却悲惨之极，主要原因就是他的婚姻，妻子喋喋不休的抱怨把他推向了死亡。在托尔斯泰82岁的时候，他再也受不了妻子了。他跑出了家，冲向了火车站，在那里结束了自己的生命。他生前唯一的要求就是希望自己能和妻子分居。林肯和托尔斯泰遭遇也很相似，有人说林肯一生最大的悲剧不是他被枪杀，而是他娶了玛丽做妻子。23年的婚姻中，他每天都要忍受妻子的噪音，这让他不堪重负。
所以（综上所述），各位，对别人多一份尊重，多一份宽容吧，你的生活会更美好！
My Attitude towards to Marks 我的分数观
For our students, marks is above everything. Teachers will judge us from our marks. With marks we can be enrolled into junior middle schools. With marks, we can be enrolled into senior middle schools. With marks we can be enrolled into college. With marks we can be enrolled into postgraduate and doctrine studies. Still with marks we can be graded and be allowed to go abroad for further studies. Our parents will be strict with us with the marks. Our society judges us from marks. However, sometimes we students compare one another with marks directly. We are completely controlled by marks. We like them and we feel sorry for them. But what attitude towards our marks should we take?
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Truly, marks functions cannot be underestimated. In terms of test in our study, marks are fair and real. That is the reason why we say "Everyone is equal before marks.”
However, I think marks are the sole standard to judge the success or failure of students in exams. Sometimes, marks more than ten or less than one or two in our exams comparing with others mean not everything. The success or failure in exams will be influenced by experience on the spot and the examinee's health etc. Once in a while one cannot fail in exams. “Success or failure is common sense for military.” I think everyone is familiar with the famous saying. Don't you think such will be the case with our study? In exams, one cannot be “never-defeated general”. Even though one will be very good in everyday study, he cannot succeed in every exam sometimes. We can get proof from the fact that the very best one we call "Number One Scholar" in the entrance exams for college and ordinary middle school and specialized secondary school over the years is not eminent above all others nor top student in every study.
As a matter of fact, "high marks" and "ability" are not unified. Some time ago, a new phrase “high marks but poor competence”came into being. Once I happened to meet such a teacher as this. It is said that the teacher just graduated from a far-famed key university. But his teaching result is much less than that of the one who just graduated from a not-well-renowned college. When lecturing, the teacher only repeated what the text-books says, which was very dull so that his students' interest in learning was not aroused. His teaching was short of unity of teaching and learning. At present there is a fact that we know a few brilliant and top college graduates are not qualified for their posts. The reason for it may be lack of the ability to combine knowledge learnt from books with pragmatics in their work. Students of this kind will be successful in every exam but they will be able to use freely their knowledge in their posts. Don't you think it waste training such persons for the country?
To sum up from the above, I can say marks are not absolutely authoritative for some. If we neglect training and developing the students' ability and competence and if we only seek for the high marks, we will be absolutely wrong. We should take an objective attitude towards the marks. Neither should we neglect them nor should we overvalue them like a God.
分数，对于我们学生来说，是至关重要的了。老师要用分数来衡量我们—上初中，要分数;上高中，要分数;上大学要分数，考研究生、博士要分数，出国、评职称还是要分数。家长要用分数来要求我们;社会用分数来衡量我们。
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而我们自己也常常用分数在相互直接做着攀比。我们完全为分数所左右了，我们为它欢喜，我们为它丧气。那么，我们应该怎样对待分数呢?
的确，分数有它不可低估的作用。从检验学习的角度上来说，它具有一定的公平性和真实性，“分数面前人人平等”，讲的就是这个道理。然而，分数并不是估量一个学生成败得失的惟一标准。考试成绩偶尔低了一两分乃至十来分，并不一定说明什么问题。考试的成败有时也会受到诸如临场经验、健康状况等方面的影响。“胜败乃是兵家常事”这句话大概不会有人不知道，而我们在学习上又何尝不如此?在考试上很少有“常胜之师”，即使平时成绩再好的同学，也难免会有偶尔的失误。历届中考、高考“状元”并非就是平时出类拔萃的优等生的事实，便是明证。
事实上，“高分”与“能力”往往是不统一的。前段时间，社会上出现了一个新词:“高分低能”。笔者就曾经碰见这样一位教师，据说他毕业于某赫赫有名的重点大学，但从教学效果上讲，却远远逊色于一些非高等学府毕业的老师。其授课只是照本宣读而已，枯燥乏味，缺乏一种教与学之间的协调功能。根本不能引起听课同学的兴趣，目前不少大中专院校的高材生毕业后不能胜任他们的工作，原因就在于缺少将书本中的知识运用到实际工作中去的能力。这种人，尽管在学校中每每能考出高分，可无法在工作岗位上灵活白如地运用自己所学到的知识。国家培养出这样的“人材”，不也是一种浪费吗?
由此可见，分数并不如有些人想象得那么绝对和权威，忽视了对各方面才能的培养，只一味追求高分，是不行的。因此，我们应该客观地去看待分数，既不应过分轻视它，也没有必要把它看得过于神圣。
常怀一颗感恩的心 To show our gratitude to people around you
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, honorable judges and distinguished guest! this is alex time! ha-ha…my topic today is to show our gratitude to people around you.
Then what is gratitude? At the moment a well-known song comes into my mind. Yes, that is called heart of feel grateful. My heart is filled up with gratitude because I’m with you/your make me courageous to be myself from cradle to the grave/so now I wanna thank for destiny/I’ll cherish the flower when it blooms until falls. The poetic lyric tells us that gratitude is actually a state of mind.
Once upon a time, the pilgrims took the may flower ship to north America. They started a 5
new life there although a lot of difficulties and hardships they encountered. After a long-time work, they got a big harvest. The pilgrims had a feast in 1621 near Plymouth, Massachusetts, which is often referred to as the first thanksgiving. People show their sincere gratitude towards the god, the nature, the earth, the river, the Indians and themselves. Moreover the 1621 feast has become a model for the thanksgiving celebration in the United States. So we can see gratitude is an action to take.
How can we express our gratitude? It’s never a simple question to answer. Gratitude is a rare jewel, not a piece of cake, I know. But how can we expect such big events happening now and then? How can we be ready to say thank you ahead of time? How can we always hope to be grateful to everything and everyone for their dignity and generosity? Sometimes I may ask to myself. Is it moral? Is it honest? Is it beneficial? Is it necessary? Or the most interesting one, is it ridiculous? ha-ha…so in my opinion, we’d better concentrate on our life’s details. Keep your eyes open to your daily life. Yes! A shining smile is supposed to be gratitude. A thank-you note is supposed to be gratitude. A soulful watch is supposed to be gratitude. As far as a baby’s crying on his arrival is supposed to be gratitude. And even fallen leaves in autumn are supposed to be gratitude. So the person, who stands here giving you a speech, is also showing his gratitude.
At last, what’s the significance of showing our gratitude? A proverb says that gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Wow! Until now I am not that kind of giant, but I dare to say that everyone, you and me, has the right and the duty to show our gratitude to the world, no matter rich or poor, happy or sad, young or old. Only by doing so can we achieve our human ultimate concern. Meanwhile it obviously helps to build up a harmonious society. Under the same sky we enjoy the same sunshine and appreciate the same love due to thanking and caring each other. Well, does it plato’s paradise?
All in all, a world full of gratitude is preciously expected for thousands of years. Why not show our gratitude to people around you?
Thank you very much!
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