专四作文结构概要1.ppt

Sample article If I Rest, I Rust Author: Orison Marden (1850-1924) Prolific（多产的） author of success and motivation books a successful hotel owner Founder of Success Magazine Pushing to the Front《伟大的励志书》 Great Personality 《伟大的个性》 If I Rest, I Rust The significant inscription(提字，铭文） found on an old key – “If I rest, I rust” – would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with（为…苦恼） the slightest taint（迹象） of idleness. Even the most industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust, and , ultimately, cannot do the work required of them. Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gates that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture, -- every department of human endeavor. Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Store, would never have published a mathematical dictionary if he had given his spare moments to idleness. Had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside, instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer. A pattern: thesis statement + so what Labor vanquishes all – not inconstant, spasmodic(时断时续的）, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting（不停止的，不放松的）, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance（时刻保持警惕） is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success. Well-structured 1. Introduction hook thesi