He loved painting, and he was a very talented painter. However, nobody could understand his pictures, nor could any one be aware of their value. His pictures could only be left in a tiny gallery administered（管理、治理） by his brother, but none of them was sold for years. Because of that, his brother was almost fired by the gallery holder. Perhaps there was only one picture finally sold out during his lifetime, which was named “Red Vineyard”/i ә/(葡萄园), at a price of four pounds. But the fact was that it was bought by his brother and friends who wanted to help him.

His biggest wish was to find a cafe to exhibit his works, but no cafe was willing to offer the service until he was dead. In total desperation, he shot his abdomen/æ ә/ （腹部） but not fatally/eit/（致命）. He said to the doctor who came hurriedly, “It seems… that I didn„t do it well… again...” He died in （无限的） despair and loneliness. His funeral was also very simple.

Why does God treat him so unfairly? Creating him as a talent while not creating even one person appreciating him? Does a talent need equal suffering to match with? Talented to the extreme极端、最高程度, miserable to the extreme? Maybe God has already figured it out.

本文在语言表达上的一个特色是词汇丰富而准确。 如bony (cheeks)，thin (neck)，gnarled (hand)， stretching，twisting，intersecting (wrinkles)， broken (bowl) 等。作者还恰如其分地运用了一些修 辞手法，特别是比喻，如His hair is like a nest，a nest with a coat of oil；there is a stick as slim as his legs; he will keep nodding his head slightly and automatically as if a gust of wind had forced it to do so.

At the first sight, you will be appalled/ә/(使惊 骇或沮丧) that God has created such a weak creature. His dark face is full of wrinkles/rikI/（皱纹）, deep or shallow. They remind people of the hardship he has been through. His cheeks are bony (瘦的， 皮包骨)while his neck is so thin. His hair is like a nest, a nest with a coat of oil. What an impressive sculpture it is!
A Beggar

At a street corner squats a beggar. He is always there, under the tree, in the shade. Senile as he is, he crouches(蹲；蹲伏) in some ragged pieces of cloth. He is there, always there, like a sculpture（雕塑品） in the street. Day after day, thousands of people pass by hurriedly. Some spare coins, most give a quick glance in disgus/gΛ/ （反感、厌恶、嫌弃）. It shocks me very much. What a miserable life a human being can bear!
新思维综合英语(3) 课程辅导unit 1 writing
巴州电大 冯晓梅 2011年
新思维综合英语（3）写作练习

Directions: Write a short article about somebody you know, or you know of, or you have read about. Pay attention to the small details that can reveal the characters or personality of the person. You may also want to practice your ability of describing people, their appearance and actions.

Most of the time, his mouth speaks while his eyes are half closed. But once a pedestrian（行人） passes by, he will keep nodding his head slightly and automatically as if a gust of wind had forced him to do so. At the same time, he raises his gnarled/na:Id/(变形的，指关节扭曲肿胀及皮肤粗糙) right hand from the ground, murmuring something to beg. What a hand! The wrinkles in his skin are stretching, twisting and intersecting（交叉）. Dirt fills the grooves. In front of him lies a broken bowl with only a few coins in it.
Boundless generosity ,enthusiasm无比的慷慨热情

He was Vincent Van Gogh, the great painter. No one can rival(堪与某人相比) him in the artistic achievement even up to now. Every single one of his pictures is priceless. Now these pictures are collected in the museums in Paris, London and the Netherlands, and all of them are hung in the most conspicuous（明显的、惹人注目的） places. His birthplace Holland and his death place France both consider him a citizen.
பைடு நூலகம்

Once he went to a place requiring tickets. Without even five Francs, he was not allowed to get in. A woman named Rashell said to him, “Since you haven„t got any money, why not cut your ears instead?” He went back home and really cut his ears off with a sharp knife, then wrapped them in a piece of cloth, and sent them to Rashell. Most citizens in the town thought that he must be insane/ei/（精神失常的、疯狂的；愚蠢的）, and even asked the government to send him to the madhouse.

范文二： A Miserable Talent（天才）

There once was a person who lived all his life in the kingdom established by himself, poor, lonely, and without any recognition by others. When he was 28, he fell in love with his cousin （表姐） who was a pregnant （聪明、耐人寻味的）widow（寡妇）. To express his love, he stretched his hand into the burning stove and seriously hurt his hand, almost disabling（丧失 了能力 it. But his cousin didn„t understand the special and weird（怪异的、古怪的） way of love, and refused him. He nearly killed himself for this incident.