英語美文：視野放寬,才能活得快樂自得

1、英語美文：視野放寬，才能活得快樂自得One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. After hearing that all students were seated and waited for the test to begin. Now, the professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down at the desk. Once he was done with hand

2、ing out the test to all students, he asked them to turn the test pages and begin.一天一位教授走進教室，跟學生說要實行一次突擊測試。聽到這 個消息，所有學生都坐好等待測試開始，然后教授把試卷發(fā)給所有學 生，有字的一面朝下放。所有試卷都發(fā)完后，教授讓學生把試卷翻過 來，開始測試。Student 's were confused to see that there was not aquestion but just a black dot in the center of the page. The prof

3、essor noticed the students' face expression and told them, “I want you to write about what you see there.”學生看到卷上沒有問題，在紙中央只有一個黑點，都很困惑。教 授注意到了學生臉上的表情，說：“我想讓你們把看到的都寫下來?！盩he students were still confused but got started with the test. At the end of the class, the professor took all answer sheets and

4、started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. All of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position etc. After the professor finished reading the whole class was silent.學生們依舊疑惑，但都開始了測試。快下課時教授把所有試卷都 收上來，開始在全班面前讀每張試卷上的答案。所有學生都描述了那 個黑點，并努力說明它的位置。教授讀完以后全班都沉默

5、了。Now, professor began to explain,“Don't worry, I amnot going to give you grades for this but I just want you to think about something. Here everyone focused on the black dot wrote about it but no one wrote about the white paper, the same is with our lives. The white paper represents our whole l

6、ife and the black spot represents problems in our life.現在教授開始解釋：“不用擔心，這個測試我不會給你們打分， 我僅僅想讓你們思考一件事。這里的每個人注重的都是黑點，寫的都 是這個黑點，卻沒人描述這張白紙，我們的生活也是如此。白紙代表 我們的一生，黑點代表我們生活中的問題。Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love andcare, and we always have reasons to cele/pate- our friendsaround us, the job that p

7、rovides us our livelihood, the miracles we see everyday.我們的生命是上帝賜予我們的禮物，其中充滿愛和關心，我們總 是有快樂的理由身邊的朋友、為我們提供生計的工作，還有我們 每天看到的不可思議的事。Still we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships etc. but we never see that these problems are very small compared to everything we have in our lives. ”我們仍然僅僅日復一日地注重著問題，比如健康問題、缺錢、人 際關系的問題等，我們卻從未看到和我們生活中所擁有的一切相比， 這些問題簡直微不足道?！盡oral Lesson ： We should try to take eyes off our problems and Enjoy each one of our blessings