英語閱讀語法美文
『壹』 英語美文，簡單一些，沒有語法錯誤，謝謝
The Wicked Postman
Why do you sit there on the floor so quiet and silent, tell me,
mother dear?
The rain is coming in through the open window, making you all
wet, and you don't mind it.
Do you hear the gong striking four? It is time for my brother
to come home from school.
What has happened to you that you look so strange?
Haven't you got a letter from father today?
I saw the postman bringing letters in his bag for almost
everybody in the town.
Only father's letters he keeps to read himself. I am sure the
postman is a wicked man.
But don't be unhappy about that, mother dear.
Tomorrow is market day in the next village. You ask your maid
to buy some pens and papers.
I myself will write all father's letters; you will not find
a single mistake.
I shall write from A right up to K.
But, mother, why do you smile?
You don't believe that I can write as nicely as father does!
But I shall rule my paper carefully, and write all the letters
beautifully big.
When I finish my writing do you think I shall be so foolish
as father and drop it into the horrid postman's bag?
I shall bring it to you myself without waiting, and letter by
letter help you to read my writing.
I know the postman does not like to give you the really nice
letters.
『貳』 英語美文小短文欣賞
英語美文小短文是課堂英語學習的補充閱讀材料，能讓學生在課後自行閱讀和背誦，這樣有利於學生擴充課外知識，培養語感和興趣。這些英語短文往往都蘊含著積極向上的主題，使學生感受到英語的魅力和閱讀的快樂，從而激發對英語的學習興趣以及獲得情感上的升華。那麼，如何欣賞英語美文小短文呢？
一、英語美文小短文中的英語知識
英語美文的篇幅都是很短小精煉的，由學生所學過的基礎的短句、句子所構成，句式成分簡單清晰，易於學生的理解。當學生在閱讀英語美文的時候，可以一邊進行英語知識的復習，一邊進行英語知識的積累和延伸。經常會出現同一個知識點在課本中和在美文中的運用有所不同，這樣來說，十分有利於學生在學習英語時培養出舉一反三的發散性思維能力。
二、英語美文小短文中的寫作技巧
英語美文“麻雀雖小”，但是它的“五臟俱全”，小編這里指的就是英語美文的結構整體上是很完整的。短文的好處就是能夠把一篇陌生的英語文章的結構清晰地展現在學生的面前，不會因為篇幅過長而使得學生感到厭倦。文中的開頭、主要內容、結尾段落劃分十分清楚，即使是段落中間每一句話也是層層遞進，有邏輯關系的，而且寫作時運用的語法也很簡單、片語准確，為學生模仿練習英語寫作提供了模板和技巧，帶給學生寫作形式上的點撥。
三、英語美文小短文中的情感價值
英語美文的“美”表現在學生閱讀時所產生的審美、腦海中的形象美和情感上的熏陶等方面，這也是英語美文和其他英語材料所不同的地方。上述兩點側重的是英語美文對於學生的知識和技能上面的培養，它存在於學生學習中的最大價值就是美文對於學生情感態度和價值觀上的培養。學生在理解英語美文的基礎上，進行自我感知，形成自己的體會，受用於生活的方方面面。
英語美文小短文不僅可以使學生開闊視野，增長知識，培養良好的英語自學能力和閱讀能力，可以進一步鞏固課內學到的英語知識，提高學生的理解水平和體會到作文的魅力，受到一定程度的寫作能力熏陶。更重要的是讓孩子們進一步明白做人的道理，使學生能健康快樂地成長。
『叄』 英語美文閱讀答案
A woman baked chapatti for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: 「The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!」
一個女人給家人烤薄餅，還留出一個給飢腸轆轆的路人。她總是把留出的那個放在窗檯上，每天都有一個駝背的人來拿走薄餅。他沒說過一句「謝謝」，反而總是邊走邊咕噥著：「善有善報，惡有惡報！」
The woman felt irritated. 「Not a word of gratitude,」 she said to herself… 「Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?」 One day, she decided to do away with him. She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him!
女人很生氣，她自言自語地說：「這個駝背人從沒說過謝謝，卻每天都重復這句話，是什麼意思呀？」一天，她決定弄死他，就在為他准備的薄餅上下了毒。
『肆』 速求5篇經典英語美文閱讀
YOUTH
By Samuel Ullman 塞繆爾·厄爾曼
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not amatter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of thewill, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is thefreshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often existsin a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by anumber of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles thesoul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the springback to st.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being』s heart the lure ofwonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what』s next and the joy ofthe game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is awireless
station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer,courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows ofcynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20,but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, thereis hope you may die young at 80.
Transforming Obstacles into Benefits
By Richard Stewart,Los Angeles, U.S.A. (Originally in English)
美國洛杉磯 理查德．史都華德（原文為英文）
A group of frogs was traveling through the woods and two of themfell into a deep pit. Immediately, all the other frogs in the groupgathered around the pit and watched as the imprisoned frogs tried tojump out. The frogs on top could see that the pit was very deep and itlooked as if there was no way out, so they started yelling at the twofrogs in the pit to give up. "The pit is too deep. You're as good asdead," the chorus of frogs said. When the trapped frogs kept trying,the crowd yelled louder, "Give up. You're as good as dead." After awhile, one of the exhausted frogs took heed to what the others weresaying, and fell down and died.
But amazingly, the second frog kept jumping as hard as she coulddespite the negative remarks of those that kept yelling at her toaccept the inevitable and just die. Finally, with one valiant leap, shemade it out of the pit!
This amazing result occurred because the second frog was deaf annable to hear what the others had been saying. She thought they hadbeen cheering her on the entire time they were yelling! What she hadmistakenly perceived as encouragement inspired her to try harder andsucceed against all odds. And that made all the difference!
With a positive mindset, and being deaf to others' opinions, thesecond frog made use of such negativity to overcome obstacles and reachher goals by using it as encouragement, instead of being influenced byothers like the first frog, who failed to develop her potential tostrive for survival. Thus, when we surmount others' criticism, ridiculeor cynical comments, we can do anything we set our minds to, just asthe second frog did. But, if we are not deaf like this frog, who couldnot be influenced by others e to a physical condition, we need the Wisdom to guide us to the proper way, so as not to be blindly guided byworldly opinion.
Transforming Obstacles into Benefits
By Richard Stewart,Los Angeles, U.S.A. (Originally in English)
美國洛杉磯 理查德．史都華德（原文為英文）
A group of frogs was traveling through the woods and two of themfell into a deep pit. Immediately, all the other frogs in the groupgathered around the pit and watched as the imprisoned frogs tried tojump out. The frogs on top could see that the pit was very deep and itlooked as if there was no way out, so they started yelling at the twofrogs in the pit to give up. "The pit is too deep. You're as good asdead," the chorus of frogs said. When the trapped frogs kept trying,the crowd yelled louder, "Give up. You're as good as dead." After awhile, one of the exhausted frogs took heed to what the others weresaying, and fell down and died.
But amazingly, the second frog kept jumping as hard as she coulddespite the negative remarks of those that kept yelling at her toaccept the inevitable and just die. Finally, with one valiant leap, shemade it out of the pit!
This amazing result occurred because the second frog was deaf annable to hear what the others had been saying. She thought they hadbeen cheering her on the entire time they were yelling! What she hadmistakenly perceived as encouragement inspired her to try harder andsucceed against all odds. And that made all the difference!
With a positive mindset, and being deaf to others' opinions, thesecond frog made use of such negativity to overcome obstacles and reachher goals by using it as encouragement, instead of being influenced byothers like the first frog, who failed to develop her potential tostrive for survival. Thus, when we surmount others' criticism, ridiculeor cynical comments, we can do anything we set our minds to, just asthe second frog did. But, if we are not deaf like this frog, who couldnot be influenced by others e to a physical condition, we need the Wisdom to guide us to the proper way, so as not to be blindly guided byworldly opinion.
『伍』 求2篇英語閱讀題美文
The Importance of Keeping Optimistic
Honourable judges, ladies and gentlemen,
Good afternoon! Today I would like to talk about the importance of
keeping optimistic. When we encounter difficulties in life, we notice that
some of us choose to bury their heads in the sand. Unfortunately, however,
this attitude will do you no good, because if you will have no courage
even to face them, how can you conquer them? Thus, be optimistic, ladies
and gentlemen, as it can give you confidence and help you see yourself
through the hard times, just as Winston Churchill once said, 「An optimist
sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in
every opportunity.」
Ladies and Gentlemen, keeping optimistic, you will be able to realize,
in spite of some hardship, there』s always hope waiting for you, which will
lead you to the ultimate success. Historically as well as currently, there
are too many optimists of this kind to enumerate. You see, Thomas Edison
is optimistic; if not, the light of hope in his heart could not illuminate
the whole world. Alfred Nobel is optimistic; if not, the explosives and
the prestigious Nobel Prize would not have come into being. And Lance
Armstrong is also optimistic; if not, the devil of cancer would have
devoured his life and the world would not see a 5-time winner of the Tour
De France.
A rose may be beautiful, or maybe not; that depends on your attitude
only, and so does success, so does life. Hindrances and difficulties do
exist, but if you are optimistic, then they are only episodes on your long
way to the throne of success; they are more bridges than obstacles! Now I
prefer to end my speech with the great British poet Shelley』s lines: 「If
winter comes, can spring be far behind?」 Thank you!
保持樂觀的重要性
尊敬的評委、女士們、先生們：
下午好！今天我想談一談保持樂觀的重要性。
我們注意到，當在生活中遇到困難時，我們中的有些人選擇逃避它們。但令人遺憾的是，這樣的態度對你沒有任何好處，因為如果你連面對它們的勇氣都沒有的話，你怎麼去征服它們呢？因此，樂觀起來吧，女士們、先生們，因為它會帶給你信心，幫助你渡過難關。正如溫斯頓·丘吉爾所說，「樂觀者在每次災難中都看到機遇；悲觀者在每次機遇中都看到災難」。
女士們，先生們，困難是存在的，但如果你保持樂觀，你就會意識到永遠有希望在等著你，它會把你領向最終的成功。不管是歷史上還是現實中，這樣的樂觀者總是不勝枚舉。你看，托馬斯·愛迪生是樂觀的，如果不是的話，他心中那希望的明燈就不能照亮整個世界；阿爾弗雷德·諾貝爾是樂觀的，如果不是的話，那炸葯和享有很高聲望的諾貝爾獎就不會誕生；蘭斯·阿姆斯特朗也是樂觀的，如果不是的話，那癌症的病魔早已吞噬了他的生命，這個世界就會少了一位五屆環法自行車賽冠軍得主.
玫瑰花可能很美，也可能不美，這，僅僅取決於你的態度；而成功也如此，人生也如此。困難和阻礙的確存在，但是如果你很樂觀的話，那它們就僅僅是我們通向勝利之冠的漫長道路上的小插曲；與其說它們是障礙，不如說它們是橋梁！此刻，我想以偉大的英國詩人雪萊的一句詩來作為我的結尾：「冬天來了，春天還會遠嗎?」
Angel
Once upon a time, a child was ready to be born. So he asked God,
『陸』 英語文章 美文賞析
There are few opportunities for me to physically go out of my city for sightseeing, and even fewer to take part in a tourist group. Such an occasion came when
I was invited to a day trip to Wujiaqu, or Five Family Creek, a new farm-turned
city 32 km away from Urumqi to which I』 never been before. Without the least
hesitation I accepted the invitation.
It was an outing organized by the local disabled persons』 federation. A 30-strong party of 「special citizens」 and their caretakers, it was a 「special group
」 consisting of people with cerebral palsy, polio, and permanent spinal cord injuries. A few sat in wheelchairs, some leaned on crutches, and still some limped around with their heads and hands turning and wringing at odd angles. They could create an attraction unique in its own! But each and every one of them wore
a happy face and talked animatedly with one another as I joined the lot on April 30, 2009.
「Disabled」 has always been a harsh word to me, however subconsciously admitted
I am to the fact that I belong to that 「lot.」 I was brought up in a world of
「normal people.」 There is literally nothing I cannot do in my parents』 loving care. The use of the Internet and the grasp of the English language have pushed me even further away from the consciousness that I am disabled. Right this
moment when I, for the second time, stood in the cool morning air with the 「lot
」 waiting for the charted bus, I became more than ever conscious of my 「nervous problems,」 and an hour of waiting seemed like an eternity.
Finally the bus arrived. I went on board with my mother and chose a seat by the
window in the second row. The engine started when everyone was seated with all
the wheelchairs secured in the aisle. From an attractive midget young lady two
seats away on my right, I retrieved my glance and focused it on the window. Past corn fields, vineyards, and vegetable plantations, the bus came to a halt one
hour later in what looked like a small parking lot of a scenic spot called 「The 4th Annual Exhibition of Tulips.」
Tulips! Tulips! Noble, graceful, attractive plants they are! Why is it that a plant looks to me almost like a gentle young lady? Ask Thumbelina from one of my picture books Mother used to read me when I was young – which depicted
a pretty girl climbing out of a tulip-like flower I have loved tulips ever since, but was never given a chance to get a real-life sight of them until now….
But it was not until the bus, with tremendous difficulty, maneuvered a few feet
closer to the entrance some 30 minutes later, did I get off to catch my first glimpse at my favorite flower.
Arranged in crescent beds are patches of red and yellow dazzling under the blazing sun. Despite the warning 「Stay where you are and we will have a group photo
taken in a moment,」 my legs take me to the nearest bed. Bending down, I fix my gaze at one particular tulip, which holds its six red petals on an upstanding
stem. Around the stem sprouted several half-folded triangular leaves like two little hands posed as if to support the stem and the flower. Inside the petals there is no little Thumbelina to be found but a tiny golden pistil standing up straight on purple and yellow star-patterned velvet, bracing itself up for the sun
』s and my glare.
「Attention. Time to take the photo!」 Comes a shout from the crowd behind. Obediently I turn around and squeeze into a pool of standers for one unified 「Cheese!」 And then a real tour of tulips begins.
Along a tree-lined road there are red, yellow, pink, orange, magenta, crimson, cream, snowy white, pearly silver, dark purple, light gold, and rosy claret – the only colors I know by their names. They, together with a wide array of color
combinations – magenta-yellow, red-white, purple-silver, pink-gold, to name a few, creates a world of colors. Tottering on the brick-wide path laid amidst the
flowers, I am turned into a clumsy butterfly in a search for the perfect patch
of tulips. This lot is charming, I yell to my mom and the companions. No, wait
, I think this one is even better…, I decide hesitantly. In the end I, dazzled
by an overwhelming effort of tulips to show off their tints and hues, haul down
my wings and come to a conclusion that it』s real hard to find one group superior to any other, for every color, every pattern they exhibit is a creation of Nature – created long before preference and prejudice were ever known to mankind.
To share something good with your friends doubles your happiness. I find this saying quite weak when I see one of my wheelchair-bound friends shooting flowers
with a DV. He is a handsome man in his late thirties. Ten years ago he broke his neck in a terrible work accident and has been left paralyzed since.
「Wow, I wish I could have a camera like this.」 I walk over and ask, 「Is this
a disc-type?」
「Yep, 40GB.」 He replies with a smile.
His smile makes my happiness grow by at least five times.
「You』d like to take a picture of yourself?」 Mother good-naturedly asks one of the teammates with severe polio. To my surprise, he replies with an enthusiastic nod. His next move makes me gasp. In a struggle he stands up with one crooked leg and pushes his wheelchair away. One hand in the pocket and the other hand holding a bottle of water, he croaks, 「I』m ready.」
It was nearly 3 o』clock that we finally reached the other end of the road, where all the members had a nice meal of fish. By 4:30, we hopped on the bus ready
to go back home.
Every one was tired and sleepy on the return trip – except me. In silence I stared at the running landscape through the window. Everything returned to the 「
normal」 color – unattractive green and gray. A strange thought flashed through my mind. Could all those tulips be seen as 「strange」, 「abnormal」, or 「disabled?」 They could, in fact, as long as they kept their natural differences.
Would they ever feel ashamed of their unique appearances had they been given a
thinking mind?
「This is all your fault! I should have been much taller and would not have had
all this misery!」 Suddenly, this exchange of a parent-daughter conversation rang in my ears, as I looked over to the midget young lady, who had her MP3 player plugged into her ears and apparently enjoyed music she loved.
「No, Tulip,」 I would say to any tulip who felt sad about being abnormal, 「You
are just being attractively different, not disabled. For every Thumbelina, there is one special tulip to sleep in. It』s nothing wrong to be special, but it』
d be all wrong to be perfectly normal.」
『柒』 5篇英語美文，不要太深奧，適合高中生閱讀的，謝謝咯
Time Off—Vacation
空閑時光——度假
I haven't had a vacation in a while.
我有段時間沒有度假了。
I think I'll take off soon.
我想自己不久就會啟程。
I'm not sure where I'll go or what I'll do.
我不知道我要去哪裡或我會做什麼。
But I can learn a tourism place where I can go for a long road,
但是我了解到的是在旅遊的地方我可以走很長的一段路、
breathe fresh air and take some nice pictures.
呼吸新鮮空氣，拍一些漂亮的照片。
When I was a kid, I really look forward to vacations.
當我還是個孩子的時候，我真的很期待假期。
Some of vacations were the best.
有些假期是最好的。
It was care free time.
尤其是完全自由的時間。
As I became older, and I have to pay for my vacations.
而隨著我逐漸長大，我為自己的度假支付。
Planning became important.
計劃變成的非常重要。
Time and money are always the big issues.
時間和金錢總是大問題。
After having a family of my own, vacations are more complicated.
在我擁有了自己的家庭後，度假變得更為復雜。
If I go, my boss to said to when.
如果我要去的話，我的老闆會問何時動身。
My wife to said to where, and my kids to said how.
我的妻子會問到哪裡去，而我的孩子們則會問怎樣去。
A vacation is supposed to be a time when you get away from work and recharge.
度假應該是一段你把注意力從工作中移開，並對自己進行充電的時間。
It's a time to see something new.
這是一個去看一些新事物的時間。
It's a time to extend your horizons, especially if you travel.
尤其是如果你去旅行，這是一個用來擴展你的視野的時間。
But it's easy for the opposite to happen.
但是很容易發生相反的情況。
You can come back from a vacation feeling really tired.
你度假回來後會感覺真的很累。
You can finish a vacation thinking 「I can't wait to get back to work.」
你完成一個度假後會思考「我等不及要回去工作了。」
And rather than extend your horizons,
而不是擴大你的視野，
you might merely dipping your bad.
你可能會握著你的荷包盤算。
Vacations aren't cheap.
度假真心並不便宜。
It's been a while since to have a vacation.
自從一個愉快的度假後已經有段時間了。
I might take one soon.
我可能很快就會再次度假。
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
有一天，你終於知道，
什麼是你必須得做，並開始去做，
雖然你周圍的聲音，
一直喊出，
其各種糟糕的建議——
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
「Mend my life!」
each voice cried.
But you didn』t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
雖然整個房子，
開始顫抖，
你亦感到那條舊繩索，
絆住了你的腳踝。
「修補我的人生！」
每個聲音都在哭喊。
但你並沒停止。
你知道什麼是你必須得做的，
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundation
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
雖然風用它僵硬的手指，
直往根基，
撬搗，
雖然它們的憂郁，
著實可怕。
天色，
已經很晚，這是個瘋狂的夜晚，
路上滿是倒下的，
斷枝和石頭。
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of cloud
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
但漸漸地，
當你將它們的聲音拋在身後，
星星開始穿透雲層，
散發光輝，
一個新的聲音出現了，
你慢慢，
意識到，那是你自己的聲音，
它伴隨著你，
伴你步步，
深入世途，
決心去做，
你唯一能做的事——
決定去拯救，
你唯一能拯救的生命。
『捌』 英語短篇美文閱讀
Wonderful Teacher
With a special gift for learning
And with a heart that deeply cares,
You add a lot of love
To everything you share,
And even though
You mean a lot,
You'll never know how much,
For you helped
To change the world
Through every life you touched.
You sparked the creativity
In the students whom you taught,
And helped them strive for goals
That could not be bought,
You are such a special teacher
That no words can truly tell
However much you're valued
For the work you do so well.
--Author me