市质检卷文本分析.ppt

市质检卷文本分析 2014.5 Qu Enshan, who used to study in Beijing No. 2 Middle School, went to study at the 122-year-old Hotchkiss School in Connecticut last September. He’d like to share his highs and lows with his peers (同龄人) in China who are considering studying abroad. When I got Hotchkiss’ offer last March, I was overjoyed. I knew that I didn’t have to choose between science and liberal arts. I want to be good at both, because I love the beauty of poetry and drama, I enjoy exploring the whys and ifs of history and I’m attracted by the depth and width of chemistry and biology. This was the main reason I chose to study in the US. Hotchkiss sits between two lakes in the northwest Connecticut, with the nearest town miles away. There is no mobile phone signal on most of the campus and the Internet is turned off at midnight. My American peers work just as hard as Chinese high school students, but the school offers many exciting after-class activities: the Fairfield Farm, which provides organically-grown food for the school dining hall, is one. The Hotchkiss farm was once part of a land donated by King George III of Britain. Like in other parts of New England, here the Puritans (清教徒) had to dig piles of rocks out of the land before turning it into fields available for farming. The most valuable lessons I learned from working on the farm were about Puritans’ beliefs, which formed the foundation of the United States: respect for hard work; encourage sweating in snow. Through farm work, I also harvested the spirit of teamwork, understanding biological and ecological issues, and broadly, the country and its people. At Hotchkiss, farming is listed together with sports as an after-class choice. If, like me, you are not an athletic person, and you don’t want to choose sports such as football, golf or tennis, farm work is less demanding and a lot of fun, too. After all, the Hotchkiss philosophy（哲学）is: be yourself and follow your heart. J.K. Rowling probably isn’t going