Disrupting My Comfort Zone
I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone. When I started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people that I thought would be good to me. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world. So I started calling up experts in all kinds of fields. Some of them were world-famous. Of course, I didn't know any of these people and none of them knew me.
So when I called these people up to ask them for a meeting, the response wasn't always friendly.
And even when they agreed to give me some of their time, the results weren't always what one might describe as pleasant. Take, for example, Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. It took me a year of begging and more begging to get to him to agree to meet with me. And then what happened? He ridiculed me and insulted me.But that was okay. I was hoping to learn something from him—and I did, even if it was only that I'm not that interesting to a physicist with no taste for our pop culture. Over the last 30 years, I've produced more than 50 movies and 20 television series. I'm successful and, in my business, pretty well known. So why do I continue to subject myself to this sort of thing? The answer is simple: Disrupting my comfort zone, bombarding myself with challenging people and situations —this is the best way that I know to keep growing. And to paraphrase a biologist I once met, if you're not growing, you're dying. So maybe I'm not the best surfer on the north shore, but that's okay. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the physical and mental challenge that I get from this—all the things that too many of us spend our time and energy trying to avoid—they are precisely the things that keep me in the game.
满分作文：谈谈你对父母溺爱孩子这种现象的看法
"Nowadays parents are too permissive with their children." Do you agree or disagreewith this statement?
Today, few people would defend the traditional attitude to children. If you recall whathappened in old days, you would be astonished at the severe and strict education forchildren, for instance, old-fashioned spanking was common punishment for children. As a result, while the parents thus established their own authority, the poor children would never recoverfrom the dreadful traumatic experience when they grew up.
However, as you know, things often go to extremes. Nowadays, parents' confidence in theirown authority has been greatly undermined. Countless articles in magazines and newspapersand tv programmes publicize childcare. When so much over-enthusiastic advice flying about, mum and dad just don't know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing.
So from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents' lives are regulated according tothe needs of their off spring. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take completecontrol. If the young people are going to have a party, for example, parents are asked to leavethe house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey?
In my mind, a child certainly needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive pe rmissiveness ofmodern parents is surely doing more harm than good. The spread of juvenile delinquency islargely due to parental laxity. Mother, believing that her little baobao can look after himself, isnot at home when he returns f rom school, so little baobao roams the street. The dividing-linebetween permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine indeed.
结构分析：
·severe and strict education for children
* spanking
* children's dreadful experience
·things often go to extremes
* parents' authority unde rmined
* over-enthusiastic child care
* parents'life regulated according to children's needs
·comments
* excessive permissiveness and sheer negligence — a fine dividing line
cet6六级作文内容分析：
本文是一篇议论文。显然作者的观点是认同这一命题中的说法的。文章以对比的手法将早先对待小孩的传统教育方式作为铺衬，然后以一句“however, things often go to extremes.”为转折，将话题导入主题“nowadays parents are too permissive with their children.”例证真实而生动，有较强的说服力。最后一段是作者的观点和评论。本文逻辑性强，层次分明，读来统一而连贯。
cet6六级作文万能句型：
permissive (ness) a.(n.) 随意(的) ，放纵(的)
be astonished at 对……感到吃惊
spank (ing) v.(n.) 打屁股
traumatic a. 受到创伤的
things often go to extremes. 事情往往会走向极端
undermine v. 瓦解
regulate v. 调节
offspring n. 儿女
dear n. 亲爱的人
obey v. 服从
juvenile delinquency 青少年犯罪
parental laxity 父母的疏忽
roam v. 游荡
dividing-line 分界线
sheer negligence 完全忽视
Love and Learning
爱情与学习
Towards love and learning, college teachers and students hold controversialviews.
The majority of college teachers, especially old teachers, argue thatstudents should give uplove and concentrate on learning. They say that campuslove is time-and-energy-consumingand tears students away from their main task.If a student ever falls in love, he/she willundoubtedly neglect his/her studiesand gradually lag behind his/her classmates. A fewteachers, therefore, suggestthat the university authorities restore the traditional regulationagainst loveduring students' school years .
On the contrary, students hold that it is natural for young people to fallin love on the campusbecause they meet every day and their everyday meetingproduces romantic passion towardseach other. They insist that the campus is notthe Garden of Eden and love is not the ForbiddenTree. They take for example someof theirf riends who, falling in love, are studying harder andhave made greaterprogress to please their boy/girl friends .
In my opinion, both views are lop-sided. If a student does not givehimself/herself away in lovebut takes it as a drive, love produces positiveeffect. But if he/she indulges himself/ herself toodeeply in love, then he/shewill be a devoted lover but a frustrated learner.
CET6结构分析：
·Int roduction
* Two different views
· Teachers’argue
* Campus love — time and energy con suming
* Campus love — should be forbidden
· Students’argue
* Campus love — natural
* Campus love — promote learning
· Conclusion
* Both views lop-sided
* Depending on how to deal with it
CET6六级作文内容分析：
本文是一篇议论文。引言部分开宗明义提出师生对这一话题的争议; 主体部分分别摆出两种不同论点和论证, 结尾部分是作者的态度,不偏不倚地加以评论。本文的命题和写作是议论文的常见模式。
CET6六级作文万能句型：
controversial a. 有争议的
tear...away from 使……离弃
lag behind 落后于
univer sity authorities 校方
restore traditional regulation 恢复传统校规
students' school years 学生在学期间
romantic passion 浪漫的感情
Garden of Eden 伊甸园
Forbidden Tree 禁果
please v. 取悦于
lop-sided a. 片面的
drive n. 推动
indulge oneself in 沉缅于
devoted a. 忠实的
frustrated a. 挫败的
Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a compositionon the topic Online Romance. You should write at least 150 words，and base yourcomposition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1)随着互联网普及，浮现了诸多网络恋情
2)人们对此褒贬不一
3)你的看法
Online Romance
With the widespread of the Internet，there have appeared many onlineromances. The lovers meet over the Internet，date on the net and finally fall inlove with each other. People’s opinions on it vary greatly.
Some people think online love is very romantic and exciting. It is anamazing thing that the Internet brings together two strange persons far awayfrom each other. Moreover，they think that online romance，compared with realisticlove，attaches more emphasis on the appeal to each other in spirit and involvesless material conditions. However，many others think differently. In theireyes，the Internet is a virtual world，on which there impossibly existreal，enduring love since it is very difficult to tell the real from the fake bythe Internet. Besides，they argue that pursuing online romance is sometimes verydangerous because there are many cheaters on the net.
As far as I am concerned，it is an easy and fast way for people to make newpeople by the Internet. However，people should have more protection and safetyconsciousness when making friends by the Internet. Don’t give out rashly yourpersonal information to strangers on the net. And keep it in your mind that youshould have more realistic knowledge of each other before starting aromance.
网络恋情
随着互联网的普及，出现了很多网络恋情。恋人在互联网上相遇，在网上约会，最后彼此相爱。人们对它的看法有很大不同。
有些人认为网络爱情是非常浪漫和令人兴奋的。互联网把两个陌生的人聚集在一起，这是一件很神奇的事情。此外，他们认为，与现实中的爱情相比，网上的爱情更强调在精神上对对方的吸引力，涉及的物质条件较少。然而，也有很多人持不同看法。在他们看来，网络是一个虚拟的世界，在这个世界上不可能存在真正的、持久的爱情，因为通过网络很难分辨真假。此外，他们认为，追求网上的爱情有时是非常危险的，因为网上有很多骗子。
在我看来，通过互联网结识新朋友是一种简单而快速的方式。但是，人们在通过网络交友时应该有更多的保护和安全意识。不要轻率地将自己的个人信息提供给网络上的陌生人。要记住，在开始一段恋情之前，你们应该对对方有更真实的了解。
Three Passions I Have Lived for
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy —ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness —that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine ... A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.
Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people —a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
希望以上内容能对大家的英语六级写作有所帮助。
On Mood
What accnornpanies you all your life is not fortune and fame nor youth and appearance, but your mood or the state of mind which controls your life. As man in the modern age, our moods are as ehangable as the cars coming and going on the super-high way. A favor from a neighbour, a kiss of a child, a praise from others are like warm sunshine that makes us comfortable. Bat a rough word from a stranger, a false product bought from the store, or an insulting remark in fun would put you in a bad mood and make your heart sink. A good mood makes one happy, energetic and creative. I was once shut in an elevator for one and a half hours. I had to phone for help. Eventually I was released, it was fun because I was in a happy mood. Otherwise I would have felt miserable.
A bad mood is bad enough to cause you to lose self-confidence and leaves you helpless with all your worries and troubles in mind.
More often than not, we are in a mixed mood. Sometimes we are happy and high-spirited. Sometimes we are in low spirits. At this time we have to take courage and have a change of mood.
A good mood will accompany you on your way to the palace of success, to the chamber of love and to pleasure and barmony in life. With a happy mood, we can live a more substantial life, one that is more interesting and meaningful.
So, always remember to keep a happy mood wherever you go or whatever you do.
谈心情
陪伴你一生的不是名利财富、青春美貌，而是你的心情或心态在制约著你的人生。现代人的心情多变，如高速公路上的汽车往返频繁。邻居帮了一次忙，孩子的一个吻，别人的一句赞扬都像风和日丽一样地使人舒服。但是陌生人的一句粗话，商店里买了一件伪劣产品，一句侮辱人的玩笑都会使你心情变坏，心情沉重。
好心情使人愉快、精力旺盛、有创造力。有一次，我被关在电梯里1个半小时，只好打电话求助，最后出来了。由于有好心情，我觉得很有趣，否则我就惨了。坏心情是以使你丧失自信心、烦恼、忧虑和无能为力。
我们往往是处在复杂的心情之中。有时兴高采烈，有时垂头丧气。这时，我们要有勇气改变心情。
好心情陪伴你进入成功的殿堂、爱的温室，使你一生愉炔、和谐。有了好心情，我们就能过充实、有趣又有意义的生活。
因此，无论在哪里，无论做什么，都要保持心情愉快。