2007年5月9日星期三

237 days left

During these days, since I find my writing skill is very poor and there might be lots of mistakes in my diaries, I think I should stop writing my blog for days.
Maybe after I finished the writing lessons gave by Peichen Huang, who comes from the Neworiental School, I will continue my diaries on this blog. "Practice makes perfect", everyone knew this expression, but the premise is that the practice you did must be correct, and there should be a teacher who will correct you when you make any mistake. I don't have such a good condition, so I must do my best to reduce my grammar mistakes as well as the faults in my expressions.
Taking Mr. Jing's advice, who taught the reading comprehension, I have started reciting passages he recommended on the GE papers in last decade. I believe after such practice I will be more skillful in using English

2007年5月5日星期六

240 days left

I chatted with Kathy nearly 4 hours today. Did I waste so much time? Maybe, but I feel good when I chatted with her. Virtually, when I was communicating with her, an invisible girl, I feel a little comfortable and safe. I think if I can meet her one day, no matter how she looks like, we will be good friends. When one lonely heart meets another on the Internet, the tie between you can soft your heart and release your pressure. So why not keep this kind of interesting relationship?

2007年5月4日星期五

241 days left

Since the Internet connection was repaired today, I can continue my blog which has been missed for two days.
Mom called me and celebrate the Youth Day for me, and at the same time I also told her that on 20th of this month, is her lunar birthday of 50 years old. But she seemed doesn't expect that day very much, may be for two reasons: first, I can't take part in her birthday's celebration; second, it seems nobody cares her birthday except me. You can never count on my father to do something for my mother, he will never appreciate my mother even though mom dedicate her whole life to this family. And I don't want to talk about this unhappy thing.
I hope one day I can earn lots of money so that I can buy many clothes for her as well as various jewelries and any other items she want. I'll give my whole life to appreciate my mom and do my best to make her happy and fortunate. I'll take her to travel around the world and buy a house in her hometown so that she can visit her relatives and friends whenever she want. I'll compensate her, I promise.
Some times I lose my motivations to study, even that's just because I learned for too long and feel tired, but I think I should work harder, because for preparing the GE I also have a long and hard way to go. If I failed the exam...I can't imagine that, so I must win!

2007年5月1日星期二

244 days left

Wisdom, justice, fortitude, and temperance were the four virtues Musulus listed to his son Commodus, who murdered his father lord in the movie of The Gladiator and usurped the throng of the Caesar.
Today I saw a section of the movie again, about one quarter. Each time I see the movie, I can gain some power, and this time I got the four words as the essential virtues to be a philosopher.
Fortitude and temperance are crucial for me, and if I want to achieve something great, I must learn that at my best.

2007年4月30日星期一

245 days left

Tomorrow will be the start of the seven-day holiday—Golden Week, which we called it. Actually, nearly everybody say it in this way. I really need a rest and some adjustments in those days, then I will be looking forward to the GE more confidently and courageously.
That would not be an impossible goal for me, a brave man with lots of energy, a persistent guy with the strongest perseverance as well as a brilliant student with an excellent intelligence.
And for chasing my dreams, nothing can be an obstacle in my way. I was a little inspired by a movie a saw just now, and there was a sentence impressed me: There's an old saying. "Jumping off a cliff only hurts if you forget how to fly."
The leading actor of that movie is an self-confident guy, he told his students who were in great inferiority when they're attending a ball full of superior noble, that "Take away their good looks, their money and their superior attitude, and what do you have?"
Yes, when take away all the people already have, we were all the same, the only thing that can distinguish us is our thought and our soul; and if our thought is powerful and our soul is clear, we are the noble.

2007年4月29日星期日

246 days left

My illness is going worse, but during the couple of days after I started to watch(I think the word watch is more accurate because I listened it on my computer screen) the Neworiental GE lectures. The teachers are experienced and very good at learning English, and their teaching style are very humorous and vivid, I even a little addicted to their lectures.
Mr Jin who teaches reading comprehension elaborately illustrate a series of effective ways to cope with every question after the exam texts. More importantly, he teaches us how to be familiar with the reading articles of GE and the way to solve those problems. One valuable tip is to make some cards wrote on long-difficult sentences and the translation of them on the opposite side, in this way you can read these forms of the sentences at any moment as well as practice your translation skills.
He also emphasized the importance of the real texts in last decade and suggested us doing our best to master the 60 articles, even to recite 20 of them and read the rest ones very familiarly. Recite and reading loudly are the best ways to learning a language, because if you can imitate the native language speaker's way of using such language completely, that means you have mastered this language just as them.

2007年4月28日星期六

247 days left

Today I listened another lecture in the section of the GE reading comprehension which takes 70% in the total scores. "The success of the GE is determined by the English test" said the teacher Jin Wei who teaches at the Neworiental. "And the success of the English test is determined by the reading comprehension part." He also said that if you did very well in this part, the score of 80 is no longer a dream.
So that's the importance of the reading comprehension. I've always believed that my reading skill is not bad. Until today, I know it was terrible after I failed all the four questions of a text he gave on class. Fortunately, I found this vulnerability not too late. I can understand what the text say and through the whole article there's no new word for me, so I have a good English fundament, what I need is just the skill of the test and the way of how to choose the right answer. Thus, this lecture must be very helpful for me.
I want to finish all of the reading, vocabulary, writing lectures during the 5.1 holiday and will make a new plan for my English study after that.