I do not know who wrote those words, / but I have always liked them as a reminder / that the future can be anything we want to make it. / We can take the mysterious, hazy future / and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, / just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone. / We are all in the position of the farmer. / If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. / If our seed is poor and full of weeds, / we reap a useless crop. / If we plant nothing at all, / we harvest nothing at all./ I want the future to be better than the past. / I don't want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors / with which history is filled. / We should all be concerned about the future / because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.
        ·这是一篇自述，表达了我们可以创造未来的思想。文中将目前的我们比喻成农民，现在播种下什么样的 种子，将来就会收获什么样的果实。
        ·短文共分17个意群，主体时态为一般现在时。
        ·短文中有几个较难拼写的词，书写时需要注意，如：reminder，mysterious，carve，sculptor，reap， contaminated和remainder。