SAT作文素材名人故事
George Soros wants to be the Bono of the financial world. The speculator whose assault on sterling ejected Britain from the European exchange rate mechanism that September of 10 years ago has a mission--to use his esti-mated ￡5 bn fortune and his fame to help tackle what he sees as the failures of globalisation. The idea that a man who made billions betting on the financial markets sides with the anti-globalisation movement might strike some as ironic. Soros is clearly genuinely appalled at the damage wrought on vulnerable economies by the vast sums of money which flow across national borders every day.
The US governs the international system to protect its own economy. It is not in charge of protecting other economies, he says. So when America goes into recession, you have anti-recessionary policies. When other countries are in recession, they dont have the ability to engage in anti-recessionary policies because they cant have a permissive monetary policy, because money would flee. In person, he has the air of a philosophy professor rather than a gimlet-eyed financier. In a soft voice which bears the traces of his native Hungary, he argues that it is time to rewrite the so-called Washington consensus--the cocktail of liberalisation, privatisation and fiscal rectitude which the IMF has been preaching for 15 years. Developing countries no longer have the freedom to run their own economies, he argues, even when they follow perfectly sound policies. He cites Brazil, which although it has a floating currency and manageable public debt was paying ten times over the odds to borrow from capital markets.
【SAT作文素材名人故事】
SAT素材名人故事
For someone who is such an extraordinarily successful investor, Warren Buffett comes off as a pretty ordinary guy. Born and bred in Omaha, Nebraska, for more than 40 years Buffett has lived in the same gray stucco house on Farnam Street that he bought for $31,500. He wears rumpled, nondescript suits, drives his own car, drinks Cherry Coke, and is more likely to be found in a Dairy Queen than a four-star restaurant.
But the 68-year-old Omaha native has led an extraordinary life. Looking back on his childhood, one can see the budding of a savvy businessman. Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, the middle child of three. His father, Howard Buffett, came from a family of grocers but himself became a stockbroker and later a U. S. congressman.
Even as a young child, Buffett was pretty serious about making money. He used to go door-to-door and sell soda pop. He and a friend used math to develop a system for picking winners in horseracing and started selling theirStable-Boy Selectionstip sheets until they were shut down for not having a license. Later, he also worked at his grandfathers grocery store. At the ripe age of 11, Buffett bought his first stock.
When his family moved to Washington, D. C. , Buffett became a paperboy for The Washington Post and its rival the Times-Herald. Buffett ran his five paper routes like an assembly line and even added magazines to round out his product offerings. While still in school, he was making $175 a month, a full-time wage for many young men.
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我女儿今年高中毕业，SAT成绩1600分。要说是否要参加补习班，我认为能不参加就不要参加，关健看补习是否必要。因为SAT考试并没有考太难的东西，而且相关的书籍和练习到处都有，学校有正常的教学计划，为什么一定要参加补习班呢?
望子成龙，望女成凤，这是许多中国家长的心愿。或许有人还会羡慕我女儿SAT考满分，我也想把我的一点心得与大家一同分享。
记得我女儿上二年级时，有一次家长会，我问老师小孩回家就是看电视，她总是说她已经做完作业了，老师可不可以多留点作业。老师说教育局有规定，小学生课后作业不能超过一小时。后来我想也是，小孩的童年为什么都要像国内小孩一样，整天有做不完的作业呢?小孩轻轻松松地掌握好她应该学的东西，剩下多一点空间和时间让他们自由地想像和发展也没有什么不好。为什么一定要把小孩个个培养成5岁能背唐诗三百首，7岁能阅读什么《资本论》的天才神童呢?而这种天才是否就能等同于日后一定能有大成就或拿诺贝尔奖呢?10岁学微积分与20岁学积分真的区别很大吗?我认为学好、应用好才是关健所在。
后来我女儿星期天上中丈学校，课后还有SAT补习班，我给她报名参加了一个学期的SAT数学补习班。第二学期她再也不肯去了，她觉得没意思，我也不再强求。我想平时学校正常教学能够掌握好了，为什么课后还要再学一遥呢?就好比一个人吃饱了饭一定要他再吃，其结果可能导致肥胖症或厌食症。
我认为读书如做饭，生米煮成熟饭不难，夹生饭再要煮熟就困难多了。镇鸭式的教学对小孩是最不可取的方法，让小孩自然地成长，拔苗助长或施肥过多，都不可取。
编者按:以上是一位读者的来稿，谈的是亲身体脸。文中女儿的成绩认证了本栏周文章中提到的第一种情况:以往SAT得高分的孩子不见得上过补习班。可是，依我所见，这位读者的来稿其寓意并不限于补习班是否有用或参加补习班是否有必要。很欣赏这位家长的胆识，有意让女儿顺其自然地成长，颇有道家无为而治之风。文中的两个比喻尤其恰当，其一，过多安排课外学习如同过分喂食可能致病;其二，要让孩子自然成长，过多的外力干预，勉为其难，导致夹生饭，那就适得其反了。如果说有一点可以拼酌的话，那就是文中对少数族裔的提法似易引起误解，幸而本栏的读者基本是华裔。