老外版高考作文：仰望星空，脚踏实地_高考作文

老外版高考作文：仰望星空，脚踏实地

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　　Im no Li Bai, but when it comes to poetry I know what I like, and thats what I know. Some things are inalienably true: Water is wet, grass is green (kind of), dogs bark and houses prices rise.

　　The line yang wang xing kong (look up at the starry sky) is one of my favorites. Why? Because its true. Look at the sky. What do you see? Thats right. Stars.

　　Its very important we all gaze at the skies and dont look around us. Look! Big apartment, high-earning job, KTV booked round the clock, two cars with different license plates and, of course, a hot wife (everyone wants a hot wife. Even my girlfriend, just for the marvelous face it gives).

　　If we all do this, we drive up national productivity and everybodys happy, except the peasants. But its crucial to remember the other half. Not the peasants. The earth.

　　Reach for the Sky was a famous book by a wheelchair-bound pilot written after World War II. Today, we are asked to do a far more important thing: To reach for the ground.

　　Or, in another way, jiao ta shi di (roughly translated: get real). Keep your feet firmly on dry land. Life is likely going to be living in a dormitory, working for the man and looking at hot wives on the Internet.

　　It was, I believe, Oscar Wilde, or possibly George Bernard Shaw (or maybe even Noel Coward - it definitely wasnt Dorothy Parker) who said: We are all of us in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.