同學(xué)介紹:我的同學(xué)瑪麗-My Classmate Mary
我的同學(xué)瑪麗
【內(nèi)容提示】
瑪麗是你的一名同班同學(xué)，她同你是好朋友。寫一篇英語文章，介紹她的情況。主要內(nèi)容如下：
�、佻旣愲m然只有十幾歲，但卻長得出奇地胖。
�、谒擞押谩嵝�，經(jīng)常幫助別人，從不和人吵架。
�、鬯m然胖，但卻行動敏捷，充滿活力。她常常在操場鍛煉。
�、墁旣愂且晃豢蓯鄣呐�。
【作文示范】
My Classmate Mary
Mary is one of my classmates. we are good friends. She is a little bit special, for it is hard to find a girl so fat in her teens. Someone says, “She seems like a big snow ball with two smiling tiny eyes which can speak. ”
Mary is kind and warm-hearted. When somebody in class falls ill,she goes to attend to① him or her. When John has troubles in his studies, Mary always helps him with his lessons. As I am not able to knit a sweater②, she lends me hand in doing so. When classes are over, she is always the first to clean the blackboard. When an old teacher has difficulty in walking upstairs, she goes over to support him or her. In a word, whenever she is in need, she never stand by with arms folded.
Although she is so fat, she is quite quick in action and full of energy. You can often see her on the playground, either playing basketball or volleyball. Sometimes, I make fun of her by saying, “You＇d better play football as a doorkeeper③.” She just tolerantly④ laughed. It is something that I admire her because she is never in the mood of self-humiliation⑤ forher fatness.
An old saying goes that “being lovely makes a person pretty”. I think that it is true of Mary since she is the case in point⑥.
【詞語解釋】
�、賏ttend to 照顧，護(hù)理
�、趉nit a sweater 織毛衣
③doorkeeper[＇d&:?ki:p+]n.守門員
�、躷olerantly[＇t&l+r+ntli]ad.寬容地
⑤in the mood of self-humiliation 為……而自卑
�、辴he case in point 恰當(dāng)?shù)睦?/p>
【寫法指要】
1）本文是介紹自己同學(xué)的說明文，它從兩方面展開：第二段寫“同學(xué)”的熱情、友好；第三段寫她行動敏捷，充滿活力。瑪麗雖胖得出奇，但她的上述優(yōu)點(diǎn)使作者感慨不已，所以作者引用一句名言“可愛使人美麗”結(jié)束全文。這是一種常用的結(jié)尾段的寫作方法，值得學(xué)習(xí)和借鑒。
2）第二段連續(xù)使用了6個以“when”，“as”以及“whenever”引導(dǎo)的時間狀語從句構(gòu)成的復(fù)合句。這種重復(fù)使用同一結(jié)構(gòu)的修辭句法叫做平行結(jié)構(gòu)（parallelism）。它的使用可以使所表達(dá)的內(nèi)容得到強(qiáng)調(diào)。這里，作者是要通過列舉事實強(qiáng)調(diào)瑪麗對同學(xué)和老師的熱情友好。