英語文章閱讀長文

A. 英語文章大全

教育 的進步是在改變的基礎上實現的,改變的第一步就是摒棄墨守成規的教學思維,英語作為國際溝通交流的語言工具,其在全球化進程中扮演著重要的角色。下面是我帶來的經典英語 文章 閱讀，歡迎閱讀!

經典英語文章閱讀篇一
十二月的玫瑰

Roses in December

Coaches more times than not use their hearts instead of their heads to make tough decisions. Unfortunately, this wasn』t the case when I realized we had a baseball conference game scheled when our seniors would be in Washington, D.C. for the annual senior field trip. We were a team dominated by seniors, and for the first time in many years, we were in the conference race for first place. I knew we couldn』t win without our seniors, so I called the rival coach and asked to reschele the game when everyone was available to play.

「No way,」 he replied. The seniors were crushed and offered to skip the much-awaited traditional trip. I assured them they needed to go on the trip as part of their ecational experience, though I really wanted to accept their offer and win and go on to the conference championship. But I did not, and on that fateful Tuesday, I wished they were there to play.

I had nine underclass players eager and excited that they finally had a chance to play. The most excited player was a young mentally challenged boy we will call Billy. Billy was, I believe, overage, but because he loved sports so much, an understanding principal had given him permission to be on the football and baseball teams. Billy lived and breathed sports and now he would finally get his chance to play. I think his happiness captured the imagination of the eight other substitute players. Billy was very small in size, but he had a big heart and had earned the respect of his teammates with his effort and enthusiasm. He was a left-handed hitter and had good baseball skills. His favorite pastime, except for the time he practiced sports, was to sit with the men at a local rural store talking about sports. On this day, I began to feel that a loss might even be worth Billy』s chance to play.

Our opponents jumped off to a four-run lead early in the game, just as expected. Somehow we came back to within one run, and that was the situation when we went to bat in the bottom of the ninth. I was pleased with our team』s effort and the constant grin on Billy』s face. If only we could win..., I thought, but that』s asking too much. If we lose by one run, it will be a victory in itself. The weakest part of our lineup was scheled to hit, and the opposing coach put his ace pitcher in to seal the victory.

To our surprise, with two outs, a batter walked, and the tying run was on first base. Our next hitter was Billy. The crowd cheered as if this were the final inning of the conference championship, and Billy waved jubilantly. I knew he would be unable to hit this pitcher, but what a day it had been for all of us. Strike one. Strike two. A fastball. Billy hit it down the middle over the right fielder』s head for a triple to tie the score. Billy was beside himself, and the crowd went wild.

Ben, our next hitter, however, hadn』t hit the ball even once in batting practice or intrasquad games. I knew there was absolutely no way for the impossible dream to continue. Besides, our opponents had the top of their lineup if we went into overtime. It was a crazy situation and one that needed reckless strategy.

I called a time-out, and everyone seemed confused when I walked to third base and whispered something to Billy. As expected, Ben swung on the first two pitches, not coming close to either. When the catcher threw the ball back to the pitcher Billy broke from third base sprinting as hard as he could. The pitcher didn』t see him break, and when he did he whirled around wildly and fired the ball home. Billy dove in head first, beat the throw, and scored the winning run. This was not the World Series, but don』t tell that to anyone present that day. Tears were shed as Billy, the hero, was lifted on the shoulders of all eight team members.

If you go through town today, forty-two years later, you』ll likely see Billy at that same country store relating to an admiring group the story of the day he won the game that no one expected to win. Of all the spectacular events in my sports career, this memory is the highlight. It exemplified what sports can do for people, and Billy』s great day proved that to everyone who saw the game.

J. M. Barrie, the playwright, may have said it best when he wrote, 「God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.」 Billy gave all of us a rose garden.
經典英語文章閱讀篇二
Big Red

The first time we set eyes on "Big Red," father, mother and I were trudging through the freshly fallen snow on our way to Hubble's Hardware store on Main Street in Huntsville, Ontario. We planned to enter our name in the annual Christmas drawing for a chance to win a hamper filled with fancy tinned cookies, tea, fruit and candy. As we passed the Eaton's department store's window, we stopped as usual to gaze and do a bit of dreaming.

The gaily decorated window display held the best toys ever. I took an instant hankering for a huge green wagon. It was big enough to haul three armloads of firewood, two buckets of swill or a whole summer's worth of pop bottles picked from along the highway. There were skates that would make Millar's Pond well worth shovelling and dolls much too pretty to play with. And they were all nestled snugly beneath the breathtakingly flounced skirt of Big Red.

Mother's eyes were glued to the massive flare of red shimmering satin, dotted with twinkling sequin-centred black velvet stars. "My goodness," she managed to say in trancelike wonder. "Would you just look at that dress!" Then, totally out of character, mother twirled one spin of a waltz on the slippery sidewalk. Beneath the heavy, wooden-buttoned, grey wool coat she had worn every winter for as long as I could remember, mother lost her balance and tumbled. Father quickly caught her.

Her cheeks redder than usual, mother swatted dad for laughing. "Oh, stop that!" she ordered, shooing his fluttering hands as he swept the snow from her coat. "What a silly dress to be perched up there in the window of Eaton's!" She shook her head in disgust. "Who on earth would want such a splashy dress?"

As we continued down the street, mother turned back for one more look. "My goodness! You'd think they'd display something a person could use!"

Christmas was nearing, and the red dress was soon forgotten. Mother, of all people, was not one to wish for, or spend money on, items that were not practical. "There are things we need more than this," she'd always say, or, "There are things we need more than that."

Father, on the other hand, liked to inlge whenever the budget allowed. Of course, he'd get a scolding for his occasional splurging, but it was all done with the best intention.

Like the time he brought home the electric range. In our old Muskoka farmhouse on Oxtongue Lake, Mother was still cooking year-round on a wood stove. In the summer, the kitchen would be so hot even the houseflies wouldn't come inside. Yet, there would be Mother – roasting - right along with the pork and turnips.

One day, Dad surprised her with a fancy new electric range. She protested, of course, saying that the wood stove cooked just dandy, that the electric stove was too dear and that it would cost too much hydro to run it. All the while, however, she was polishing its already shiny chrome knobs. In spite of her objections, Dad and I knew that she cherished that new stove.

There were many other modern things that old farm needed, like indoor plumbing and a clothes dryer, but Mom insisted that those things would have to wait until we could afford them. Mom was forever doing chores - washing laundry by hand, tending the pigs and working in our huge garden - so she always wore mended, cotton-print housedresses and an apron to protect the front. She did have one or two "special" dresses saved for church on Sundays. And with everything else she did, she still managed to make almost all of our clothes. They weren't fancy, but they did wear well.

That Christmas I bought Dad a handful of fishing lures from the Five to a Dollar store, and wrapped them indivially in matchboxes so he'd have plenty of gifts to open from me. Choosing something for Mother was much harder. When Dad and I asked, she thought carefully then hinted modestly for some tea towels, face cloths or a new dishpan.

On our last trip to town before Christmas, we were driving up Main Street when Mother suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Would you just look at that!" She pointed excitedly as Dad drove past Eaton's.

"That big red dress is gone," she said in disbelief. "It's actually gone."

"Well . . . I'll be!" Dad chuckled. "By golly, it is!"

"Who'd be fool enough to buy such a frivolous dress?" Mother questioned, shaking her head. I quickly stole a glance at Dad. His blue eyes were twinkling as he nudged me with his elbow. Mother craned her neck for another glimpse out the rear window as we rode on up the street. "It's gone . . ." she whispered. I was almost certain that I detected a trace of yearning in her voice.

I'll never forget that Christmas morning. I watched as Mother peeled the tissue paper off a large box that read "Eaton's Finest Enamel Dishpan" on its lid.

"Oh Frank," she praised, "just what I wanted!" Dad was sitting in his rocker, a huge grin on his face.

"Only a fool wouldn't give a priceless wife like mine exactly what she wants for Christmas," he laughed. "Go ahead, open it up and make sure there are no chips." Dad winked at me, confirming his secret, and my heart filled with more love for my father than I thought it could hold!

Mother opened the box to find a big white enamel dishpan - overflowing with crimson satin that spilled out across her lap. With trembling hands she touched the elegant material of Big Red.

"Oh my goodness!" she managed to utter, her eyes filled with tears. "Oh Frank . . ." Her face was as bright as the star that twinkled on our tree in the corner of the small room. "You shouldn't have . . ." came her faint attempt at scolding.

"Oh now, never mind that!" Dad said. "Let's see if it fits," he laughed, helping her slip the marvellous dress over her shoulders. As the shimmering red satin fell around her, it gracefully hid the patched and faded floral housedress underneath.

I watched, my mouth agape, captivated by a radiance in my parents I had never noticed before. As they waltzed around the room, Big Red swirled its magic deep into my heart.

"You look beautiful," my dad whispered to my mom - and she surely did!
經典英語文章閱讀篇三
你才是我的幸福

She was dancing. My crippled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen table and sure enough-right under a small, framed drawing on the wall-was a freshly baked peach pie.

I heard her sing when I opened the door but did not want to interrupt the beautiful song by yelling I had arrived, so I just tiptoed to the living room. I looked at how her still-lean body bent beautifully, her arms greeting the sunlight that was pouring through the window. And her legs... Those legs that had stiffly walked, aided with a cane, insensible shoes as long as I could remember. Now she was wearing beautiful dancing shoes and her legs obeyed her perfectly. No limping. No stiffness. Just beautiful, fluid motion. She was the pet of the dancing world. And then she』d had her accident and it was all over. I had read that in an old newspaper clipping.

She turned around in a slow pirouette and saw me standing in the doorway. Her song ended, and her beautiful movements with it, so abruptly that it felt like being shaken awake from a beautiful dream. The sudden silence rang in my ears. Grandma looked so much like a kid caught with her hand in a cookie jar that I couldn』t help myself, and a slightly nervous laughter escaped. Grandma sighed and turned towards the kitchen. I followed her, not believing my eyes. She was walking with no difficulties in her beautiful shoes. We sat down by the table and cut ourselves big pieces of her delicious peach pie.

"So...」 I blurted, 「How did your leg heal?"

"To tell you the truth—my legs have been well all my life," she said.

"But I don』t understand!" I said, "Your dancing career... I mean... You pretended all these years?

"Very much so," Grandmother closed her eyes and savored the peach pie, "And for a very good reason."

"What reason?"

"Your grandfather."

"You mean he told you not to dance?"

"No, this was my choice. I am sure I would have lost him if I had continued dancing. I weighed fame and love against each other and love won."

She thought for a while and then continued. 「We were talking about engagement when your grandfather had to go to war. It was the most horrible day of my life when he left. I was so afraid of losing him, the only way I could stay sane was to dance. I put all my energy and time into practicing—and I became very good. Critics praised me, the public loved me, but all I could feel was the ache in my heart, not knowing whether the love of my life would ever return. Then I went home and read and re-read his letters until I fell asleep. He always ended his letters with 『You are my Joy. I love you with my life』 and after that he wrote his name. And then one day a letter came. There were only three sentences: 『I have lost my leg. I am no longer a whole man and now give you back your freedom. It is best you forget about me.』」

"I made my decision there and then. I took my leave, and traveled away from the city. When I returned I had bought myself a cane and wrapped my leg tightly with bandages. I told everyone I had been in a car crash and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing days were over. No one suspected the story—I had learned to limp convincingly before I returned home. And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a reporter I knew well. Then I traveled to the hospital. They had pushed your grandfather outside in his wheelchair. There was a cane on the ground by his wheelchair. I took a deep breath, leaned on my cane and limped to him. "

By now I had forgotten about the pie and listened to grandma, mesmerized. 「What happened then?」 I hurried her when she took her time eating some pie.

"I told him he was not the only one who had lost a leg, even if mine was still attached to me. I showed him newspaper clippings of my accident. 『So if you think I』m going to let you feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, think again. There is a whole life waiting for us out there! I don』t intend to be sorry for myself. But I have enough on my plate as it is, so you』d better snap out of it too. And I am not going to carry you-you are going to walk yourself.』" Grandma giggled, a surprisingly girlish sound coming from an old lady with white hair.

"I limped a few steps toward him and showed him what I』d taken out of my pocket. 『Now show me you are still a man,』 I said, 『I won』t ask again.』 He bent to take his cane from the ground and struggled out of that wheelchair. I could see he had not done it before, because he almost fell on his face, having only one leg. But I was not going to help. And so he managed it on his own and walked to me and never sat in a wheelchair again in his life."

"What did you show him?" I had to know. Grandma looked at me and grinned. "Two engagement rings, of course. I had bought them the day after he left for the war and I was not going to waste them on any other man."

I looked at the drawing on the kitchen wall, sketched by my grandfather』s hand so many years before. The picture became distorted as tears filled my eyes. 「You are my Joy. I love you with my life.」 I murmured quietly. The young woman in the drawing sat on her park bench and with twinkling eyes smiled broadly at me, an engagement ring carefully drawn on her finger.


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B. 英語文章閱讀帶翻譯3篇

在世界經濟全球化及中國加入WTO的形勢下,社會需要大量能夠用英語在國際上進行科技、經貿、法律和 文化 等方面交流的專業人才。下面是我帶來的英語 文章 閱讀帶翻譯，歡迎閱讀!

英語文章閱讀帶翻譯篇一
In the public interest

The Scandinavian countries are much admired all over the world for their enlightened social policies. Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the indivial citizen from high-handed or incompetent public officers. The system has worked so well, that it has been adopted in other countries like Denmark, Norway, Finland, and New Zealand. Even countries with large populations like Britain and the United States are seriously considering imitating the Swedes.

The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public. As long ago as 1809, the Swedish Parliament introced a scheme to safeguard the interest of the indivial. A parliamentary committee representing all political parties appoints a person who is suitably qualified to investigate private grievances against the State. The official title of the person is 'Justiteombudsman', but the Swedes commonly refer to him as the 'J.O.' or 'Ombudsman'. The Ombudsman is not subject to political pressure. He investigates complaints large and small that come to him from all levels of society. As complaints must be made in writing, the Ombudsman receives an average of 1200 letters a year. He has eight lawyer assistants to help him and he examines every single letter in detail. There is nothing secretive about the Ombudsman's work, for his correspondence is open to public inspection. If a citizen's complaint is justified, the Ombudsman will act on his behalf. The action he takes varies according to the nature of the complaint. He may gently reprimand an official or even suggest to parliament that a law be altered. The following case is a typical example of the Ombudsman's work.

A foreigner living in a Swedish village wrote to the Ombudsman complaining that he had been ill-treated by the police, simply because he was a foreigner. The Ombudsman immediately wrote to the Chief of Police in the district asking him to send a record of the case. There was nothing in the record to show that the foreigner's complaint was justified and the Chief of Police stoutly denied the accusation. It was impossible for the Ombudsman to take action, but when he received a similar complaint from another foreigner in the same village, he immediately sent one of his lawyers to investigate the matter. The lawyer ascertained that a policeman had indeed dealt roughly with foreigners on several occasions. The fact that the policeman was prejudiced against foreigners could not be recorded in he official files. It was only possible for the Ombudsman to

find this out by sending one of his representatives to check the facts. The policeman in question was severely reprimanded and was informed that if any further complaints were lodged against him, he would be prosecuted. The Ombudsman's prompt action at once put an end to an unpleasant practice which might have gone unnoticed.

斯堪的納維亞半島各國實行開明的社會政策，受到全世界的推崇。在瑞典，已逐漸形成了一種完善的制度以保護每個公民不受專橫的和不稱職的政府官員的欺壓。由於這種制度行之有效，已被其他國家採納。

是瑞典人首先認識到政府工作人員如文職人員、警官、衛生稽查員、稅務人員等等也會犯錯誤或者自以為在為公眾服務而把事情做過了頭。早在1809年，瑞典論會就建立一個保護公民利益的制度。議會內有一個代表各政黨利益的委員會，由它委派一位稱職的人選專門調查個人對國家的意見。此人官銜為“司法特派員”，但瑞典人一般管他叫“J.O.”，即“司法特派員”。司法特派員不受任何政治壓力的制約。他聽取社會各階層的各種大小意見，並進行調查。由於意見均需用書面形式提出，司法特派員每年平均收到1,200封信。他有8位律師作他的助手協助工作，每封信都詳細批閱。司法特派員的工作沒有什麼秘密可言，他的信件是公開的，供公眾監督。如果公民的意見正確，司法特派員便為他伸張正義。司法特員採取的行動因意見的性質不同而有所不同。他可以善意地批評某位官員，也可以甚至向議會提議修改某項法律。下述事件是司法特派員工作的一個典型例子。

一個住在瑞典鄉村的外國人寫信給司法特派員，抱怨說他受到警察的虐待，原因就是因為他是個外國人。司法特派員立即寫信給當地警察局長，請他寄送與此事有關的材料。材料中沒有任何文字記載證明外國人所說的情況符合事實，警察局長矢口否認這一指控。司法特派員難以處理。但是，當他又收到住在同一村莊的另一個外國人寫的一封內容類似的投訴信時，他立即派出一位律師前去調查。律師證實有個警察確實多次粗魯地對待外國人。警察歧視外國人的事在官方檔案中不可能加以記載，司法特派員只有派他的代表去核對事實才能了解真相。當事的警察受到嚴厲的斥責，並被告知，如果再有人投訴他，他將受到起訴。司法特派員及時採取的行動，迅速制止了這一起不愉快的事件，不然這件事可能因未得到人們注意而不了了之。
英語文章閱讀帶翻譯篇二
Instinct or cleverness?

We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. Man continually wages war on item, for they contaminate his food, carry diseases, or devour his crops. They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding with out dispelling our fears. Knowing that the instrious ant lives in a highly

organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch. No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are impossible to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangely fascinaing. We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives. We enjoy staring at them entranced as they go about their business, unaware (we hope) of our presence. Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle ?

Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree. The tree has grown against a warm wall on a sheltered side of the house. I am especially proud of it, not only because it has survived several severe winters, but because it occasionally proces luscious peaches. During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the underside of the leaves. They were visited by a laop colony of ants which obtained a sort of honey from them. I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty-four hours. I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape , making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphides. The tape was so sticky that they did not dare to cross it. For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the tree in bewilderment. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it. I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair. Instead, I saw that they had discovered a new route. They were climbing up the wall of the house and then on to the leaves of

the tree. I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity. The ants had been quick to find an answer to my thoroughly unscientific methods!

我們自幼就在對昆蟲的懼怕中長大。我們把昆蟲當作害多益少的無用東西。人類不斷同昆蟲斗爭，因為昆蟲弄臟我們的食物，傳播疾病，吞噬莊稼。它們無緣無故地又叮又咬;夏天的晚上，它們未經邀請便飛到我們房間里，或者對著露出亮光的窗戶亂撲亂撞。我們在日常生活中，不但憎惡如蜘蛛、黃蜂之類令人討厭的昆蟲，而且憎惡並無大害的飛蛾等。閱讀有關昆蟲的書能增加我們對它們的了解，卻不能消除我們的恐懼的心理。即使知道勤奮的螞蟻生活具有高度組織性的社會里，當看到大群螞蟻在我們精心准備的午間野餐上爬行時，我們也無法抑制對它們的反感。不管我們多麼愛吃蜂蜜，或讀過多少關於蜜蜂具有神秘的識別方向的靈感的書，我們仍然十分害怕被蜂蜇。我們的恐懼大部分是沒有道理的，但去無法消除。同時，不知為什麼昆蟲又是迷人的。我們喜歡看有關昆蟲的書，尤其是當我們了解螳螂等過著一種令人生畏的生活時，就更加愛讀有關昆蟲的書了。我們喜歡入迷地看它們做事，它們不知道(但願如此)我們就在它們身邊。當看到蜘蛛撲向一隻蒼蠅時，一隊螞蟻抬著一隻巨大的死甲蟲凱旋歸時，誰能不感到敬畏呢?

去年夏天，我花了好幾天時間站在花園里觀察成千隻螞蟻爬上我那棵心愛的桃樹的樹干。那棵樹是靠著房子有遮擋的一面暖牆生長的。我為這棵樹感到特別自豪，不僅因為它度過了幾個寒冬終於活了下來，而且還因為它有時結出些甘甜的桃子來。到了夏天，我發現樹葉開始枯萎，結果在樹葉背面找到成串的叫作蚜蟲小蟲子。蚜蟲遭到一窩螞蟻的攻擊，螞蟻從它們身上可以獲得一種蜜。我當即動手作了一項試驗，這項試驗盡管沒有使我擺脫這些螞蟻，卻使我著迷了24小時。我用一條膠帶把桃樹底部包上，不讓螞蟻接近蚜蟲。膠帶極粘，螞蟻不敢從上面爬過。在很長一段時間里，我看見螞蟻圍著大樹底部來回轉悠，不知所措。半夜，我還拿著電筒來到花園里，滿意地(同時驚奇地)發現那些螞蟻還圍著膠帶團團轉。無能為力。第二天早上，我起床後希望看見螞蟻已因無望而放棄了嘗試，結果卻發現它們又找到一條新的路徑。它們正在順著房子的外牆往上爬，然後爬上樹葉。我懊喪地感到敗在了足智多謀的螞蟻的手下。螞蟻已很快找到了相應的對策，來對付我那套完全不科學的辦法!
英語文章閱讀帶翻譯篇三
From the earth: greatings

Radio astronomy has greatly increased our understanding of the universe. Radio telescopes have one big advantage over conventional telescopes in that they can operate in all weather conditions and can pick up signals coming from very distant stars. These signals are proced by colliding stars or nuclear reactions in outer space. The most powerful signals that have been received have been emitted by what seem to be truly colossal stars which scientists have named 'quasars'.

A better understanding of these phenomena may completely alter our conception of the nature of the universe. The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in England was for many years the largest in the world. A new telescope, over twice the size, was recently built at Sugar Grove in West Virginia. Astronomers no longer regard as fanciful the idea that they may one day pick up signals which have been sent by intelligent beings on other worlds. This possibility gives rise to interesting speculations. Highly advanced civilizations may have existed on other planets long before intelligent forms of life evolved on the earth. Conversely, intelligent being which are just beginning to develop on remote worlds may be ready to pick up our signals in thousands of years' time, or when life on earth has become extinct. Such speculations no longer belong to the realm of science fiction, for astronomers are now exploring the chances of communicating with living creatures (if they exist) on distant planets. This undertaking which has been named Project Ozma was begun in 1960, but it may take a great many years before results are obtained.

Aware of the fact that it would be impossible to wait thousands or millions of years to receive an answer from a distant planet, scientists engaged in Project Ozma are concentrating their attention on stars which are relatively close. One of the most likely stars is Tau Ceti which is eleven light years away. If signals from the earth were received by intelligent creatures on a planet circling this

star, we would have to wait twenty-two years for an answer. The Green Bank telescope in West Virginia has been specially designed to distinguish between random signals and signals which might be in code. Even if contact were eventually established, astronomers would not be able to rely on language to communicate with other beings. They would use mathematics as this is the

only truly universal language. Numbers have the same value anywhere. For this reason, intelligent creatures in any part of the universe would be able to understand a simple arithmetical sequence. They would be able to reply to our signals using similar methods. The next step would be to try to develop means for sending television pictures. A single picture would tell us more than thousands of words. In an age when anything seems to be possible, it would be narrow-minded in the extreme to ridicule these attempts to find out if there is life in other parts of the universe.

天文學方面最新發展使得我們能夠在銀河系和其他星系發現行星。這是一個重要的成就，因為相對來說，行星很小，而且也不發光。尋找行星證明相當困難，但是要在行星上發現生命會變得無比艱難。第一個需要解答的問題是一顆行星是否有能夠維持生命的條件。舉例來說，在我們的太陽系裡，對於生命來說，金星的溫度太高，而火星的溫度則太低。只有地球提供理想的條件，而即使在這里，植物和動物的進化也用了40億年的時間。

一顆行星是否能夠維持生命取決於它的恆星——即它的“太陽”——的大小和亮度。設想一下，一顆恆星比我們的太陽還要大，還要亮，還要熱20倍，那麼一顆行星為了維持生命就要離開的它的恆星非常遠。反之，如果恆星很小，維持生命的行星就要在離恆星很近的軌道上運行，而且要有極好的條件才能使生命得以發展，但是，我們如何才能找到這樣一顆行星呢?現在，沒有一台現存的望遠鏡可以發現生命的存在。而開發這樣一台望遠鏡將會是21世紀天文學的一個重要的研究課題。

使用放置在地球上的望遠鏡是無法觀察到其他行星的生命的。地球周圍溫暖的大氣層和望遠鏡散出的熱量使得我們根本不可能找到比行星更小的物體。即使是一台放置在圍繞地球的軌道上的望遠鏡——如非常成功的哈勃望遠鏡——也因為太陽系中的塵埃微粒而無法勝任。望遠鏡要放置在木星那樣遙遠的行星上才有可能在外層空間搜尋生命。因為我們越是接近太陽系的邊緣，塵埃就越稀薄。一旦我們找到這樣一顆行星，我們就要想辦法將它的恆星射過來的光線遮暗，這樣我們就能徹底“看見”這顆行星，並分析它的大氣層。首先我們要尋找植物，而不是那種“小綠人”。行星上最容易生存下來的是細菌。正是細菌生產出我們在地球上呼吸的氧氣。在地球上發展的大部分進程中，細菌是地球上唯一的生命形式。作為地球上的居民，我們總存有這樣的希望：小綠人來 拜訪 我們，而我們可以和他們交流。但是，這種希望總是只在科幻小說中存在。如果我們能夠在另一顆行星上找到諸如細菌的那種低等生命，那麼這個發現將徹底改變我們對我們自己的看法。正如美國國家航空和宇宙航空局的丹尼爾.戈爾丁指出的“在其他地方發現生命會改變一切。任何人類的努力和想法都會發生變化。”

C. 英語經典閱讀文章

經典的英語文章適合我們閑時練習英語閱讀，下面我為大家帶來，希望大家喜歡!

篇一：
I am an art student and I paint a lot of pictures. Many people pretend that they understand modern art. They always tell you what a picture is 'about'. Of course, many pictures are not 'about' anything. They are just pretty patterns. We like them in the same way that we like pretty curtain material. I think that young children often appreciate modern pictures better than anyone else. They notice more. My sister is only seven, but she always tells me whether my pictures are good or not. She came into my room yesterday.

'What are you doing?' she asked.

'I'm hanging this picture on the wall,' I answered. 'It's a new one. Do you like it?'

She looked at it critically for a moment. 'It's all right,' she said, 'but isn't it upside down?'

I looked at it again. She was right! It was!

我是個學藝術的學生，畫了很多畫。有很多人裝成很懂現代藝術。他們總是告訴你一幅畫的。當然，有很多畫是什麼意思也沒有的。他們只不過是漂亮的圖案。我們喜歡它們就像我們喜歡漂亮的窗簾布。我覺得小孩子們往往比任何人都更能欣賞現代繪畫。他們觀察到的東西更多。我的妹妹只有七歲，但她總能說出我的畫是好還是不好。昨天她到我房裡來了。"你干什麼呢。她問。"我把這幅畫掛到牆上，我回答。"這是一個新的。你喜歡嗎。她用挑剔的目光一會兒。"這都是正確的，"她說，"但這不是顛倒的嗎?"我又看。她是對的!這是!
篇二：
Late in the afternoon, the boys put up their tent in the middle of a field. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open fire. They were all hungry and the food *** elled good. After a wonderful meal, they told stories and sang songs by the campfire. But some time later it began to rain. The boys felt tired so they put out the fire and crept into their tent. Their sleeping bags were warm and fortable, so they all slept soundly. In the middle of the night, two boys woke up and began shouting. The tent was full of water! They all leapt out of their sleeping bags and hurried outside. It was raining heavily and they found that a stream had formed in the field. The stream wound its way across the field and then flowed right under their tent!

在下午晚些時候，男孩子們把帳篷搭在一個領域中。一旦這是，他們在篝火上燒起了飯。他們都餓了，而且食物聞起來很香。一頓美餐之後，他們講故事、唱歌的篝火。但過了些時候開始下雨了。孩子們感到累了，所以他們撲滅了火，爬進了帳篷。睡袋既暖和又舒適，所以他們都睡得很香。在半夜裡，兩個男孩醒來了，開始喊。帳篷里全是水!他們全都跳出睡袋，跑到外面。雨下得很大，他們發現地上已經形成了一個流。那小溪彎彎曲曲穿過田野，然後正好從他們的帳篷!
篇三：
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.' The editor at once

sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two urgent telegrams, but received no reply. He sent yet another telegram rming the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a telegram from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a cable in which he rmed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

報刊雜志的編輯常常為了向讀者提供成立一些關緊要的事實和統計數字而走向極端。去年，一位記者受一家有名的雜志的委託寫一篇關於非洲某個新成立共和國總統府的文章。稿子寄來後，編輯看第一句話就拒絕予以發表。文章的開頭是這樣的："幾百級台階通向環繞總統的高牆。"編輯立即給那位記者發去傳真，要求他核實一下台階的確切數字和圍牆的高度。

記者立即出發去核實這些重要的事實，但過了好長時間不見他把數字寄來，在此期間，編輯等得不耐煩了，因為雜志馬上要付印。他給記者先後發去兩份傳真，但對方毫無反應。於是他又發了一份傳真，通知那位記者說，若再不迅速答復，將被解僱。但記者還是沒有回復。編輯無奈，勉強按原樣發稿了。一周之後，編輯終於接到記者的傳真。那個可憐的記者不僅被捕了，而且還被送進了監獄。不過，他終於獲准發回了一份傳真。在傳真中他告訴編輯，就在他數通向15英尺高的總統府圍牆的1，084級台階時，被抓了起來。

D. 關於課外閱讀英語短文

閱讀作為四項基本技能之一，對高中生英語語言綜合能力的培養起到舉足輕重的作用，因此高中英語閱讀教學在英語語言學習中扮演著重要角色。我精心收集了關於課外閱讀英語短文，供大家欣賞學習!

關於課外閱讀英語短文篇1

Flexible I has a round face, a pair of bright eyes, long black hair, small mouth, long eyelashes. Height is not high not short, it is of medium height.

I am an optimistic child, bad mood, through their own adjustment, will be a lot better, a good mood will always come to me, even if parents criticized me, I am also very optimistic. I would think seriously about, if they do wrong, is it because I'm performance decline, so parents criticize me. So I must be serious about every exam. Done anything wrong, or the teacher criticism, her family said that I have what place is bad, want to correct them. I will accept the opinion, to do better. Want to know the comfort yourself, optimistic to face everything.

Sometimes, I got good grades, the test will be happy to say to the parents. Sometimes, performance, test paper more wrong topic, I will be happy to face, take an examination of only a little bit better next time. On one occasion, just take an examination of three units, the teacher commented in some easy topic, the teacher will say: "who was at fault, stood up." I stood up, and the other students at that time, I think all people's eyes were focused on me. Although I am very optimistic, but there will always be unhappy. I have been standing there, with his head down, not up. The in the mind very nervous, afraid of the teacher will criticize me. Standing for a moment, the teacher told us to sit down, so I can not lift spirit to the whole class, the mood is terrible. Can be a good mood soon came to my side, when the bell rang, it's time to do some eye exercises, exercises when I thought: I was wrong, is I do wrong, in fact, if I were more careful, don't wrong, I must correct mistakes next time, show the teacher. Thinking about thinking, feeling a lot better, my class and students play happily again.

I like make friends with others, I also made friends easily. If the others or because I have a little things do not become friends, destroyed the friend's friendship, don't make friends. Not until one day, we made up for some things again. Make friends as long as the trust each other, that this friendship will be lasting.

I this person is optimistic, not criticized by the teacher a word, is not happy all day. I even if not happy also is at most a lesson. Optimistic people will always be happy.

我有一張圓臉蛋，一雙靈活透亮的眼睛，又長又黑的頭發，小小的嘴巴，長長的眼睫毛。身高不高不矮，這也算是中等身高吧。

我是一個樂觀的孩子，本來糟透的心情，經過自己的調整，就會好很多了，好的心情總會來到我身邊的，就算家長批評了我，我也很樂觀。我會認真思考，自己是否做錯，是不是因為我成績下降了，所以家長批評我。那麼我一定要認真地對待每一次考試。做了錯事，被家人或老師批評，說我有什麼地方不好，要改正。我都會接受意見，做得更好。要懂得自己安慰自己，樂觀地去面對每一件事。

有時，我考試考了好成績，就會開心地把成績說給家長聽。有時，成績下降，試卷錯題多了，我也會開心地去面對，下次考好一點就行了。有一次，剛考完地三單元，老師在評講一些比較容易的題目的時候，老師就會說：“誰錯了，就站起來。”我和其他同學站了起來，那時我覺得全部人的眼光都集中在我身上。雖然說我很樂觀，但人總會有不開心的時候。我一直站在那裡，低著頭，不敢抬起來。心裡很緊張，生怕老師會批評我。站了一會兒，老師叫我們坐下，於是，我整節課都提不起精神來，心情糟透了。可好的心情很快又來到我的身邊，下課鈴聲響了，該做眼保健操了，做操的時候我想：是我不對，是我做錯了，其實我要是細心一點的話，就不會錯了，下次我一定改正錯誤，證明給老師看。想著想著，覺得心情好了很多，下課我又和同學開心地玩起來了。

我很喜歡和別人做朋友，我也很容易交到朋友。如果別人或我因為一點兒小事就做不成朋友，破壞了朋友的友誼，就不做朋友了。可不到一天，我們又因為一些事而和好了。做朋友只要互相相信對方，那這個友誼就會持久地保持。

我這個人就很樂觀，不會老師批評了一句話，就不開心一整天。我就算不開心也最多是一節課而已。樂觀的人總會是很快樂的。

關於課外閱讀英語短文篇2

Modern folk custom on the Spring Festival also known as the Chinese New Year's day. In fact, the origin of the year and the Spring Festival is not the same.

Exactly how to "year"? There are two main types of folk parlance: a said that in ancient times, there is a fierce monster called "year", every month, 30, was from village, foraging human flesh, destroyed creatures. There's a lunar month of 30 in the evening, "year" in a village, bull whip comes at a time when two boy in the game. "Year" and the smell of air ring snapped BianSheng, frighten the run. It went to another village and took a look at the door with a big red clothes, it didn't know it was, frighten hurriedly turned away. Later it came to a village, the one person in the house of a look, see bright lights inside, a little dizzy, it had to slip, with tail again. People thus decision-makingprocesses the "year" is afraid, afraid of red, be afraid of the light of the weakness, then think of many methods against it, then graally evolved into today's Chinese New Year customs.

Another argument is that the evidences in ancient China, put the "year" wo department, in order to show good crop weather, good harvest. As GuHe is generally a cooked in a year. The "year" has been extended to the old name.

Although Chinese ancient folk already have the Chinese New Year customs, but was not called the Spring Festival. When the Spring Festival, refers to the 24 solar terms of "spring".

Spring is the Spring Festival "refers to the whole of the northern and southern dynasties. It is said that the lunar New Year officially named as the Spring Festival, it is after the xinhai revolution. Because at that time to switch to the Gregorian calendar, in order to distinguish between agriculture, Yang two, so I had to the name of first lunar month to "Spring Festival".

現代民間習慣上把過春節又叫做過年。其實，年和春節的起源是很不相同的。

那麼"年"究竟是怎麼樣來的呢?民間主要有兩種說法：一種說的是，古時候，有一種叫做"年"的兇猛怪獸，每到臘月三十，便竄村挨戶，覓食人肉，殘害生靈。有一個臘月三十晚上，"年"到了一個村莊，適逢兩個牧童在比賽牛鞭子。"年"忽聞半空中響起了啪啪的鞭聲，嚇得望風而逃。它竄到另一個村莊，又迎頭望到了一家門口曬著件大紅衣裳，它不知其為何物，嚇得趕緊掉頭逃跑。後來它又來到了一個村莊，朝一戶人家門里一瞧，只見裡面燈火輝煌，刺得它頭昏眼花，只好又夾著尾巴溜了。人們由此摸准了"年"有怕響，怕紅，怕光的弱點，便想到許多抵禦它的方法，於是逐漸演化成今天過年的風俗。

另一種說法是，我國古代的字書把"年"字放禾部，以示風調雨順，五穀豐登。由於谷禾一般都是一年一熟。所"年"便被引申為歲名了。

我國古代民間雖然早已有過年的風俗，但那時並不叫做春節。因為那時所說的春節，指的是二十四節氣中的"立春"。

南北朝則把春節泛指為整個春季。據說，把農歷新年正式定名為春節，是辛亥革命後的事。由於那時要改用陽歷，為了區分農、陽兩節，所以只好將農歷正月初一改名為"春節"。

With time goes by, it becomes a bit hard for me to remember everything about myself at the first day of my college life. However, there was one thing for sure that I did feel quite excited and curious about my university. There is no doubt that students like me have struggled for a long time so that can be permitted to enter the university.

隨著時間的流逝，記得在我的第一天大學生活對我來說變得有點困難了。然而，有一點是肯定的，我對大學真的感到很興奮很好奇。毫無疑問，很多像我這樣努力了很長時間才可以進入大學的學生。

Bringing with expectation, I got into Zhejiang Gongshang University. Generally speaking, it's an interesting and fantastic place for us to study and live in. Every day a series of outgoing people get into my eyesight. Curious and out of politeness, I'd talk to them heart to heart. Here I make friends with my new classmates from everywhere around China. What's more, time and weather permitting, I will enjoy jogging or playing basketball with my classmates on the playground, tired but happy. When staying in dormitory, I choose to read news online and sometimes watch a film for relaxing. However, a good student can never leave his study behind. When it comes to study, hard problems never upset me, instead they arouse me. Rather than ignoring it, I'd think carefully for a while and ask my classmates for help.

帶著期待，我進入了浙江工商大學。總的來說，這是一個有趣的，奇妙的學習和生活的地方。每天看著一群群外向的人。帶著好奇並且處於禮貌，我想跟他們談談心。在這里我和來自中國各地的新同學交朋友。更重要的是，如果時間和天氣允許的話，我會慢跑或與我的同學在操場上打籃球，雖然累但很高興。呆在宿舍的時候，我會在線看新聞，有時也會看電影來放鬆。然而，一個好的學生永遠不會落下他的課業。說到學習，困難不會讓我難過，反而會激勵我。不是忽略它，而是會認真地思考並向同學求助。

To be honest, there are some things I don’t deal with properly. For instance, once I spent nearly a whole day playing computer games. Personally, we university students are already alts and it's our obligation to develop ourselves in college by learning new professional skills. Not until we take a right attitude towards our study and life can we win a rich and colorful experience in college.

老實說，有些事我處理得不夠妥善。例如，有一次我花了將近一整天的時間來玩電腦游戲。就我個人而言，我們大學生已是成年人了，通過學習新的專業知識來發展自己是我們的義務。直到我們以正確的態度對待我們的學習和生活，我們才能在大學擁有豐富多彩的經歷。

關於課外閱讀英語短文篇3

China is a country with a strong, her beautiful and fertile. In golden October we ushered in the National Day, is also the motherland 60 birthday. Each and every one of us Chinese people excited, all have thousands of words to and mother, but I don't know where to start. Thus began with our own characteristic way to express his love for the motherland.

Overnight, it completely changed. Every shop front side with a red flag with five stars. Here became red world, flags of the world. Each flag waving, it planted sow the seeds of hope, with endless hope. Each a red flag with Chinese people's love for the motherland!

I also unwilling to lag behind, to go to vendor immediately bought two five-star red flag, I carefully looked at the bright five-star red flag, looking at it that the color of the blood is thought that this is the blood predecessors. The past 60 years, we the Chinese nation, with an unyielding, tenacious struggle, finally has obtained great achievements. It contains many hardships, how hard! At the same time I also be predecessors self-sacrifice spirit, they inspire me and make me become more strong! I thank them.

I sincerely hope that the great motherland is more and more prosperous, more and more prosperous, more and more powerful! I also was determined, after be brought up to serve the motherland!

中國是一個強盛的國家，她美麗而富饒。在金秋十月我們迎來了國慶節，也是祖國母親的60華誕。我們每一個中國人都激動不已，盡有千言萬語要和母親訴說，無奈不知從何說起。於是就開始用我們自己特有的方式來表達自己對祖國的愛。

一夜之間，這里完全變了樣。每家商店門前都插著一面五星紅旗。這里變成了紅色的世界、國旗的世界。每一面國旗揮動著，它播種了撒下了希望的種子，撒了無盡的希望。每一面紅旗都流露著炎黃子孫對祖國的愛!

我也不甘落後，立刻去商販那裡買來兩面五星紅旗，我仔細端詳著著鮮艷的五星紅旗，看著它那血紅血紅的顏色就想到這是先輩們的血染成的。這60年來，我們中華民族自強不息，頑強拼搏，終於取得了偉大的成就。這包含著多少艱辛，多少努力!同時我也被先輩們舍己為人的精神所感動，他們激勵著我，使我變得更加堅強!我感謝他們。

我真誠的希望偉大的祖國越來越富強，越來越繁榮昌盛，越來越強大!我也下定決心，長大後要為祖國效力!

E. 英語短文閱讀經典美文【關於讀書的英語美文閱讀】

讀書是較易的事，思索是很難的事。但如果兩者缺一，便會全無用處。我精心收集了關於讀書的英語美文，供大家欣賞學習!

關於讀書的英語美文篇1
As the development of the world, there is more and more entertainment for people to kill time. Reading used to be an important amusement. But now there are less and less people fond of reading. But there are still a large number of people stand on the side of reading. For me, I think reading is very important. The reasons are as following.

隨著世界的發展，越來越多娛樂供人們消磨時光。閱讀在過去常常就是一種重要的娛樂。但現在卻越來越少人喜歡閱讀了。但仍然還有很多人是喜歡看書的。對我來說，我認為閱讀是很重要的。理由如下。

First of all, reading can broaden our vision. The main way we learn the things happen long time ago is according to the book. People will try their best to write the things in their stage in their way. When we read books, we have the opportunity to learn everything. The content in the books contains the knowledge all over the world and every aspect. We can read the knowledge about biography, science, technology, culture, economic and so on from the book. It is hard not to broaden vision from reading.

首先，閱讀可以開闊我們的視野。我們了解很久以前發生的事情的主要方式是通過閱讀。人們用他們自己的方式盡自己最大的努力寫關於他們那個年代的事情。我們看書的時候，我們才有機會了解到一切。書中的內容包含知識的方方面褲唯面。通過書籍我們可以了解到關於傳記，科學，技術，文化，經濟等方面的知識。從閱讀中，我們的視野很難不被拓寬。

Secondly, reading can cultivate our taste. I am sure that reading some elegant sentence or the beautiful things described in the book will make us feel relax and comfortable. And we all know that the more knowledge a person has, the better-behaved he will be. I think this is the charming of reading. If there are more people like reading, the world will become more civilized.

其次，閱讀可以陶冶我們的情操。我相信閱讀一些優美的句子或者書中描述的美麗東西會旁沒使我們感到放鬆和舒適。我們都知道一個人擁有的知識越多，那個人就會表現得越好。我覺得這就是閱讀的魅力。如果有更多的人喜歡閱讀，這個世界會變得更胡啟培加文明。

The importance mentioned above just a part of reading. It has so many advantages that I can’t list all in a short time. It is irreplaceable in human beings’ life.

上面所提到的重要性只是其中一部分。閱讀有很多的優點，在短時間內我都不能一一列舉我不能列舉。它在人類的生活中是不可替代的。
關於讀書的英語美文篇2
Reading Makes a Full Man。

Reading is very important in our life. We can get knowledge through reading. It can not only open our minds but also make us more intelligent. Besides, reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English.

Textbooks, newspapers, magazines and other kinds of reading materials can help us know more about the outside world and help us grow into an excellent person.

I’m planning to read at least 5 books in the coming holiday. And I’ll spend more time reading every day in my senior high school life. Reading makes a full man! Let’s start reading now.

讀書使人充實,閱讀是我們生活中非常重要的一部分。我們可以通過讀書獲得知識。它不僅可以打開我們的心靈，也讓我們更加聰明。此外，閱讀也是學習外語中最重要的途徑之一， 如學習英語。 課本，報紙，雜志等各類閱讀材料可以幫助我們更多地了解外面的世界，並幫助我們成長為一個優秀的人。 我打算在即將到來的假日至少要讀5 本書。我會花更多的時間閱讀在我的高中生活期間。讀書使人充實!讓我們立即開始閱讀。
關於讀書的英語美文篇3
There is no denying that people can get a lot benefits from reading classics. On the one hand, it is a good way for readers to broaden their horizon and increase their knowledge in many aspects. For instance, they can learn the society characters by reading classic literature novels about history or culture. On the other hand, it also provides a chance for them to enhance their aesthetic taste in that most of classics has a very beautiful or unique language style and arts, which gives readers more enjoyment and interest.

不可否認的是人們從閱讀經典中可以獲益匪淺。另一方面，閱讀經典也是讓讀者開闊視野、多方面增加知識的好方式。例如，他們可以通過閱讀關於歷史和文化的文學經典小說來了解社會人物。另一方面，閱讀經典還為他們提供增強審美觀的機會，因為大部分的經典都有著美麗而獨特的語言風格和藝術，這可以給讀者更多的享受和興趣。

However, nowadays a large number of people, especially the young, are unwilling to or cannot spend their times in reading classics. There are some reasons accounting for the phenomenon and I would like to state two of them. For one thing, people are distracted by other things increasingly, which can give their more joy and fun and have no requirement in thinking, such as all kinds of entertainment activities. For another, some people think that it is no use of reading classics because these classics are outdated and useless to our society and lives.

然而，如今許多人，尤其是年輕人，不願意或不能花時間去閱讀經典。對於這一現象有很多原因，這里我只想列出兩點。一方面，越來越多的人被由其他的東西分散了注意力，它們可以給他們更多的樂趣也不用思考，如各種娛樂活動。另一方面，有些人認為閱讀經典是沒有用的，因為這些經典著作在我們的社會和生活中已經過時了而且也沒有用。

In my opinion, it is wrong to consider classics as an outdated matter because it still has many important functions and influence on our society and our lives. Classics are a kind of treasure in a nation. Therefore, we should give enough attention to them. And I advocate that all of us should try our best to read some of them.

在我看來，把經典著作看作是過時的東西是錯誤的，因為它在我們的社會和生活中仍然有重要的作用和影響。經典是一個國家的一種財富。因此，我們應該給予足夠的重視。我認為我們都應該盡量去讀一些書。

F. 英文長篇美文3篇閱讀

語言學習與 文化 學習是交織在一起的，語言習得者要掌握好一門語言，尤其是第二語言，具備充足的文化背景知識是必不可少的。下面是我帶來的英文長篇美文閱讀，歡迎閱讀!

英文長篇美文閱讀篇一
Americans have any morals

Do Americans have any morals? That's a good question. Many people insist that ideas about right and wrong are merely personal opinions. Some voices, though, are calling Americans back to traditional moral values. William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Ecation, edited The Book of Virtues in 1993 to do just that. Bennett suggests that great moral stories can build character. The success of Bennett's book shows that many Americans still believe in moral values. But what are they?

美國人還有道德嗎?這是個好問題。許多人堅持對與錯乃是個人的意見。但是，還是有些人在呼喚美國人回到傳統的道德價值里去。威廉。班奈特，前任美國 教育 部長，正是為了此目的而在一九九三年編輯了「美德」這本書。班奈特認為偉大的道德 故事 可以建造性格。班奈持這本書的成功顯示了許多美國人仍然相信道德的價值。但是它們到底為何?

To begin with, moral values in America are like those in any culture. In fact, many aspects of morality are universal. But the stories and traditions that teach them are unique to each culture. Not only that, but culture influences how people show these virtues.

最開始，道德價值在美國就像在任何 其它 的文化一樣。事實上，許多道德的觀點是全球一致的。但是，不同的文化則有不同的故事和傳統來教導它們。不僅如此，文化也影響了人民如何表現這些美德。

One of the most basic moral values for Americans is honesty. The well-known legend about George Washington and the cherry tree teaches this value clearly. Little George cut down his father's favorite cherry tree while trying out his new hatchet. When his father asked him about it, George said, “I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my hatchet.” Instead of punishment, George received praise for telling the truth. Sometimes American honesty-being open and direct-can offend people. But Americans still believe that “honesty is the best policy.”

美國人最基本的道德價值之一是誠實。眾所周知的喬治。華盛頓砍櫻桃樹的故事，即將此道德教導地極為清楚。小喬治在試他新斧頭時砍倒了爸爸最心愛的櫻桃樹。當爸爸問他的時候，喬治說，「我不能說謊，我用我的斧頭砍了它。」喬治非但未被懲罰，反而因為誠實而被贊賞。有時候美國人仍然相信「誠實是最上策」

Another virtue Americans respect is perseverance. Remember Aesop's fable about the turtle and the rabbit that had a race? The rabbit thought he could win easily, so he took a nap. But the turtle finally won because he did not give up. Another story tells of a little train that had to climb a steep hill. The hill was so steep that the little train had a hard time trying to get over it. But the train just kept pulling, all the while saying, “I think I can, I think I can.” At last, the train was over the top of the hill. “I thought I could, I thought I could,” chugged the happy little train.

另外一個為美國人所尊崇的美德為堅忍。記得再龜兔賽跑這則伊索寓言嗎?兔子以為它可以贏的很輕松，便睡了個午覺，但是烏龜再最後終因不放棄而贏了這場比賽。另一個故事談到一個必須爬過陡峭山頭的小火車，山頭是這么陡，以至於小火車很難爬上去，但是它仍不斷地爬，並不停地說：「我想我能做到，我能做到。」最後，火車終於爬過了山頭，「我就知道我可以。」這個快樂的小火車繼續往前去。

Compassion may be the queen of American virtues. The story of “The Good Samaritan” from the Bible describes a man who showed compassion. On his way to a certain city, a Samaritan man found a poor traveler lying on the road. The traveler had been beaten and robbed. The kind Samaritan, instead of just passing by, stopped to help this person in need. Compassion can even turn into a positive cycle. In fall 1992, people in Iowa sent truckloads of water to help Floridians hit by a hurricane. The next summer, ring the Midwest flooding, Florida returned the favor. In less dramatic ways, millions of Americans are quietly passing along the kindnesses shown to them.

同情心，可能是美國的道德之最了。聖經中的「好撒瑪利亞人」的故事，描述一個流露同情心的人。在這個撒瑪利亞人出發去某城市的途中，看到一個可憐的旅客躺在路旁。這旅客被鞭打、搶劫，這位仁慈的撒瑪利亞人非但沒有視而不見，反而停下來幫助這位有需要的人。同情心還可以變成一個正面循環，在一九九二年的秋天，愛荷華州的居民將好幾輛卡車的水送到受颶風侵襲的佛羅里達州;而就在第二年夏天，當中西部鬧水災的時候，佛州人便投挑報李。數以百萬計的美國人民正用較不醒目的方式回報人們向他們表達的善意。

In no way can this brief description cover all the moral values honored by Americans. Courage, responsibility, loyalty, gratitude and many others could be discussed. In fact, Bennett's bestseller-over 800 pages-highlights just 10 virtues. Even Bennett admits that he has only scratched the surface. But no matter how long or short the list, moral values are invaluable. They are the foundation of American culture-and any culture.

在這么一篇短短的 文章 里，無論如何也不能將美國人所尊崇的道德述盡。勇氣、責任心、忠誠、感激之心還有許多其它可以討論的。事實上，班奈特最暢銷的書──超過八百頁──只談到了十種美德。即使班奈特也承認他只談到了皮毛而已。但是不論這張道德表是多長或短，道德價值都是無價的。他們是美國文化──和任何其它國家的文化之基礎

G. 小學六年級英語閱讀文章5篇

【 #小學英語# 導語】閱讀是運用語言文字來獲取信息、認識世界、發展思維，並獲得審美體驗與知識的活動。它是從視覺材料中獲取信息的過程。以下是 整理的《小學六年級英語閱讀文章5篇》相關資料，希望幫助知困到您。

【篇一】小學六年級英語閱讀文章

正配It was Saturday yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Smith took their children Bill and Mary to the park . They got up early and had their breakfast quickly . After that they went to the park by car. It was half past nine when they arrived there. There were many people in the park. Bill went boating and Mary played games with some other children.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith were very tired after five days' work. They sat under a big tree and had a rest. The Smith family had a very good time all the morning.

【篇二】小學六年級英語閱讀文章

At midnight on New Year's Eve, my parents and I were in the flower fair. There were some roses, lilies, tulips, peach flowers, bluebells and some different kinds of plants. The flowers were beautiful. And there were some different kinds of toys. We bought a toy Micky Mouse. It's lovely and cute. And we bought some peach flowers. Because the flower fair is big, so we felt tired.

The first day of Sprig Festival. My mother and I made some mplings. In the evening we ate some mplings and noodles. Because the noodles bring long life. During Spring Festival, I had some lucky money. There were about 1000 yuan. I felt very happy!

【篇三】小學六年級英語閱讀文章

Miss Jones teaches at a school. She teaches the boys and girls about nine years old. The pupils are not good at maths in one of her classes. Miss Jones always wants to make her lessons interesting.
舉猛指One day she gave them a question. 「 If you go to the shop to buy apples,」 she said, 「and an apple and a half cost twelve cents(美分), how much will you have to give for twelve apples?」
The pupils began to write in their exercise books, and for a long time nobody spoke. Then one boy put his hand up and said, 「could you say the question once again, please?」 Miss Jones said, 「If an apple and a half…」 But the boy shouted, 「 oh, an apple and a half? All the time I am working it out (算出來)in oranges, Miss Jones. So the answer must be different.」

【篇四】小學六年級英語閱讀文章

Summer is the second season of the year. When summer comes, it is getting hot and sunny. The days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter, for the sun gets up early and goes to bed late.
The world has become a green world, green leaves on the trees, green grass by the river, green plants in the fields, and we can see beautiful flowers everywhere. Birds sing from morning till night.
It's so hot that all of the children go swimming in rivers or lakes, and the old people sit under big trees to enjoy the cool air, but thefarmers are still busy working in the fields.

【篇五】小學六年級英語閱讀文章

A young apple tree begins to grow from a seed. When its roots reach into the soil, it gets water. The young tree uses light from the sun and makes its own food. For several years, the tree grows bigger.
Then, in spring, it grows sweet flowers. During the summer, apples begin to grow. They grow bigger and bigger. In autumn, they began to fall from the tree.
People like apples because they taste good. And they are good for health.

H. 英語長篇文章閱讀

眾所周知，閱讀作為人類汲取知識的主要手段和認知世界的主要途徑之一，一度成為語文、外語等文科類學科學習的主要方式，而倍受關注和青睞。下面是我帶來的英語長篇 文章 閱讀，歡迎閱讀!

英語長篇文章閱讀1

寒武紀大爆發 動物王國出現

Science and technology

The Cambrian explosion

Kingdom come

Chinese palaeontologists hope to explain the rise of the animals

AMONG the mysteries of evolution, one of the most profound is what exactly happened at the beginning of the Cambrian period.

Before that period, which started 541m years ago and ran on for 56m years, life was a modest thing.

Bacteria had been around for about 3 billion years, but for most of this time they had had the Earth to themselves.

Seaweeds, jellyfish-like creatures, sponges and the odd worm do start to put in an appearance a few million years before the Cambrian begins.

But red in tooth and claw the Precambrian was not—for neither teeth nor claws existed.

Then, in the 20m-year blink of a geological eye, animals arrived in force.

Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.

The sudden evolution of this megafauna is known as the Cambrian explosion.

But two centuries after it was noticed, in the mountains of Wales after which the Cambrian period is named, nobody knows what detonated it.

A group of Chinese scientists, led by Zhu Maoyan of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, plan to change that with a project called 「From the Snowball Earth to the Cambrian explosion: the evolution of life and environment 600m years ago」.

The 「Snowball Earth」 refers to a series of ice ages that happened between 725m and 541m years ago.

These were, at their maxima, among the most extensive glaciations in the Earth』s history.

They alternated, though, with periods that make the modern tropics seem chilly: the planet』s average temperature was sometimes as high as 50C.

Add the fact that a supercontinent was breaking up at this time, and you have a picture of a world in chaos.

Just the sort of thing that might drive evolution.

Dr Zhu and his colleagues hope to find out exactly how these environmental changes correspond to changes in the fossil record.

The animals』 carnival

Fortunately, China』s fossil record for this period is rich.

Until recently, the only known fossils of Precambrian animals were what is called the Ediacaran fauna—a handful of strange creatures found in Australia, Canada and the English Midlands that lived in the Ediacaran period, between 635m and 541m years ago, and which bear little resemblance to what came afterwards.

In 1998, however, a team led by Chen Junyuan, also of the Nanjing Institute, and another led by Xiao Shuhai of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in America, discovered a 580m-year-old Lagersttte—a place where fossils are particularly well preserved—in a geological formation called the Doushantuo, which spreads out across southern China.

Portents of the modern world

This Lagersttte has yielded many previously unknown species, including microscopic sponges, small tubular organisms of unknown nature, things that look like jellyfish but might not be and a range of what appear to be embryos that show bilateral symmetry.

What these embryos would have grown into is unclear. But some might be the ancestors of the Cambrian megafauna.

To try to link the evolution of these species with changes in the environment, Chu Xuelei of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing and his colleagues have been looking at carbon isotopes in the Doushantuo rocks.

They have found that the proportion of 12C—a light isotope of carbon that is more easily incorporated by living organisms into organic matter than its heavy cousin, 13C—increased on at least three occasions ring the Ediacaran period.

They suggest these increases mark moments when the amount of oxygen in seawater went up, because more oxygen would mean more oxidisation of buried organic matter. That would liberate its 12C, for incorporation into rocks.

Each of Dr Chu』s oxidation events corresponds with an increase in the size, complexity and diversity of life, both plant and animal.

What triggered what, however, is unclear.

There may have been an increase in photosynthesis because there were more algae around.

Or eroded material from newly formed mountains may have buried organic matter that would otherwise have reacted with oxygen, leading to a build-up of the gas.

The last—and most dramatic—rise in oxygen took place towards the end of the Ediacaran.

Follow-up work by Dr Zhu, in nine other sections of the Doushantuo formation, suggests this surge started just after the final Precambrian glacial period about 560m years ago, and went on for 9m years.

These dates overlap with those of signs of oxidation found in rocks in other parts of the world, confirming that whatever was going on affected the entire planet.

Dr Zhu suspects this global environmental shift propelled the evolution of complex animals.

Dr Zhu also plans to push back before the Ediacaran period.

Other researchers have found fossils of algae and wormlike creatures in rocks in northern China that pre-date the end of the Marinoan glaciation, 635m years ago, which marks the boundary between the Ediacaran and the Cryogenian period that precedes it.

Such fossils are hard to study, so Dr Zhu will use new imaging technologies that can look at them without having to clean away the surrounding rock, and are also able to detect traces of fossil organic matter invisible to the eye.

Besides digging back before the Ediacaran, the new project』s researchers also intend to analyse the unfolding of the Cambrian explosion itself by taking advantage of other Lagersttten—for China has several that date from the Cambrian.

Dr Chen, indeed, first made his name in 1984, when he excavated one at Chengjiang in Yunnan province.

It dates from 525m years ago, which make it 20m years older than the most famous CambrianLagersttte in the West, the Burgess shale of British Columbia, in Canada.

The project』s researchers plan to see how, evolutionarily speaking, the various Lagerst?tten relate to one another, to try to determine exactly when different groups of organisms emerged.

They will also look at the chemistry of elements other than carbon and oxygen—particularly nitrogen and phosphorous, which are essential to life, and sulphur, which often indicates the absence of oxygen and is thus antithetical to much animal life.

Dr Zhu hopes to map changes in the distribution of these chemicals across time and space.

He will assess how these changes correlate, whether they are related to weathering, mountain building and the ebb and flow of glaciers, how they could have affected the evolution of life, and how plants and animals might themselves have altered the chemistry of air and sea.

Most ambitiously, Dr Zhu, Dr Xiao and their colleagues hope to drill right through several fossiliferous sites in southern China where Ediacaran rocks turn seamlessly into Cambrian ones.

Such places are valuable because in most parts of the world there is a gap, known as an unconformity, between the Ediacaran and the Cambrian.

Unconformities are places where rocks have been eroded before new ones are deposited, and the widespread Ediacaran-Cambrian unconformity has been a big obstacle to understanding the Cambrian explosion.

With luck, then, a mystery first noticed in the Welsh mountains in the early 19th century will be solved in the Chinese ones in the early 21st.

If it is, the origin of the animal kingdom will have become clear, and an important gap in the history of humanity itself will have been filled.

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巴西水資源 無水可喝

Water in Brazil

Nor any drop to drink

Dry weather and a growing population spell rationing

BRAZIL has the world's biggest reserves of fresh water. That most of it sits in the sparsely populated Amazon has not historically stopped Brazilians in the drier, more populous south taking it for granted. No longer. Landlords in S?o Paulo, who are wont to hose down pavements with gallons of potable water, have taken to using brooms instead. Notices in lifts and on the metro implore paulistanos to take shorter showers and re-use coffee mugs.

S?o Paulo state, home to one-fifth of Brazil's population and one-third of its economic activity, is suffering the worst drought since records began in 1930. Pitiful rainfall and high rates of evaporation in scorching heat have caused the volume of water stored in the Cantareira system of reservoirs, which supplies 10m people, to dip below 12% of capacity. This time last year, at the end of what is nominally the wet season, it stood at 64%.

On April 21st the governor, Geraldo Alckmin, warned that from May consumers will be fined for increasing their water use. Those who cut consumption are already rewarded with discounts on their bills. The city will tap three basins supplying other parts of the state, but since these reservoirs have also been hit by drought and supply hydropower plants, fears of blackouts are rising.

Without a downpour, Sabesp, the state water utility, expects Cantareira's levels to sink beneath the pipes which link reservoirs to consumers a week after S?o Paulo hosts the opening game of the football World Cup on June 12th. To tide the city over until rains resume in November, it is installing kit to pump half of the 400 billion litres of reserves beneath the pipes, at a cost of 80m reais. The company says this 「dead volume」, never before used, is perfectly treatable. Some experts have expressed concerns about its quality.

Mr Alckmin has not ruled out tightening the spigots. Flow from taps in parts of S?o Paulo has already become a trickle, for which Sabesp blames maintenance work. Widespread cuts could hurt the governor's re-election bid in October. Hours after he announced the latest measures, a thirsty mob set fire to a bus.

Paulistanos use more water than most Brazilians, but lose less of it to leaks: 35%, compared with a national average of 39%. Sabesp, listed on the New York Stock Exchange but majority-owned by the state government, is a paragon of good governance, says John Briscoe, a water expert at Harvard and a former head of the World Bank mission in Brazil.

The problem exposed by the drought is that supply has not kept pace with the rising urban population. Facing a jumble of overlapping municipal, state and federal regulations, investment in storage, distribution and treatment has lagged behind. And not just in S?o Paulo; the national water regulator has warned that 16 projects in the ten biggest cities must be completed by 2015 to prevent chronic water shortages over the next decade. So far only five are finished; work on some has not begun. Short-term measures should keep the water trickling for now. But the well of temporary solutions will eventually run dry.

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德國公司的管理 董事會的多元化

Business

Corporate governance in Germany

Diversifying the board

German boards have long been cosy men's clubs. But things are changing

HERMANN JOSEF ABS liked to joke, What's the difference between a doghouse and the supervisory board?

The doghouse is for the dog; the supervisory board is for the cat.

For those unfamiliar with the nuances of German humour, for the cat is slang for something like trash.

The late banker would know: while running Deutsche Bank from 1957 to 1967, he also sat on dozens of supervisory boards.

This was the peak of Deutschland AG, a clique of long-serving bosses, autocratic chairmen, do-nothing board members and their financier friends.

Big German companies' supervisory boards are supposed to act as a check on their management boards.

But in practice their relations were too cosy for this.

This past year the stumbles of two titans seemed to highlight how much corporate power is still concentrated in few hands in the Germanspeaking world.

As 2013 began Gerhard Cromme was chairman of the supervisory boards of both Siemens, an instrial conglomerate, and ThyssenKrupp, a steelmaker.

But big losses at foreign mills and heavy fines over a cartel case cost him the chairmanship at ThyssenKrupp.

Then in July, a boardroom bunfight at Siemens ended with the departure of Peter Lscher, the chief executive.

Mr Cromme belatedly called for his firing—but only after hiring him and protecting him for years.

Josef Ackermann, a Swiss former boss of Deutsche Bank and a Siemens board member, had defended Mr Lscher.

When Mr Lscher went, so did he.

Shortly before this he had quit as chairman of Zurich, a Swiss insurer, whose chief financial officer had committed suicide, leaving a note berating Mr Ackermann.

Now he has no big corporate job, there have been reports that Mr Ackermann may have to step down as a trustee of the World Economic Forum after its gabfest in Davos this week.

At first glance, corporate power in Germany still looks male, German and concentrated.

But its boardrooms are slowly getting more diverse.

In 2003 the average supervisory-board member at a public company sat on 1.9 boards; now the figure is 1.6.

A 2001 cut in tax on sales of shares let banks and insurance companies, which played big roles as lenders and part-owners, start disentangling themselves from companies.

Into the gaps, and onto the boards, has come a new generation of more active members.

Boards have little choice but to be sharper, says Christoph Schalast of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Many companies are now paying fines and settlements for their behaviour before the financial crisis.

A 2010 change in the law doubled the statute of limitations for such misdeeds to ten years.

Progress on making boards more international is slower.

Eight of the largest 30 public companies have foreign bosses, but the rest of their boards' members are predominantly German, even at the country's most multinational firms.

But Burkhard Schwenker, the boss of Roland Berger, a consulting firm, says that counting passports is simplistic: what matters more is international experience, which German firms increasingly look for when recruiting both management-and supervisory-board members.

If boards are becoming more professional and diverse, is accumulation of board seats a bad thing in itself?

Jrg Rocholl, the president of the European School for Management and Technology, says that studies disagree on whether busy board members are better or worse for profits.

But he agrees that boards are becoming more capable, and says this has been a factor in Germany's economic revival.

Pay for German board members is going up; but these days, members are earning it.

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第一篇：The Road To Happiness幸福之道

It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.

There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for sty snobbism.

If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most graally builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.

The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children's noise unenrable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen----a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.

Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

道德家們常說：幸福靠追求是得不到的。只有用不明智的方式去追求才是這樣。蒙特卡洛城的賭徒們追求金錢，但多數人卻把錢輸掉了，而另外一些追求金錢的辦法卻常常成功。追求幸福也是一樣。如果你通過暢飲來追求幸福，那你就忘記了酒醉後的不適。埃畢丘魯斯追求幸福的辦法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不塗黃油的麵包，節日才加一點乳酪。他的辦法對他來說是成功的，但他是個體弱多病的人，而多數人需要的是精力充沛。就多數人來說，除非你有別的補充辦法，這樣追求快樂就過於抽象和脫離實際，不宜作為個人的生活准則。不過，我覺得無論你選擇什麼樣的生活准則，除了那些罕見的和英雄人物的例子外，都應該是和幸福相容的。

很多人擁有獲得幸福的全部物質條件，即健康的身體和豐足的收入，可是他們非常不快樂。就這種情況來說，似乎問題處在生活理論的錯誤上。從某種意義上講，我們可以說任何關於生活的理論都是不正確的。我們和動物的區別並沒有我們想像的那麼大。動物是憑沖動生活的，只要客觀條件有利，它們就會快樂。如果你有一隻貓，它只要有東西吃，感到暖和，偶爾晚上得到機會去尋歡，它就會很快活。你的需要比你的貓要復雜一些，但還是以本能為基礎的。在文明社會中，特別是在講英語的社會中，這一點很容易被忘卻。人們給自己定下一個最高的目標，對一切不利於實現這一目標的沖動都加以克制。生意人可能因為切望發財以致不惜犧牲健康和愛情。等他終於發了財，他除了苦苦勸人效法他的好榜樣而攪得別人心煩外，並沒有得到快樂。很多有錢的貴婦人，盡管自然並未賦予她們任何欣賞文學或藝術的興趣，卻決意要使別人認為她們是有教養的，於是他們花費很多煩人的時間學習怎樣談論那些流行的新書。這些書寫出來是要給人以樂趣的，而不是要給人以附庸風雅的機會的。

只要你觀察一下周圍那些你可稱之為幸福的男男女女，就會看出他們都有某些共同之處。在這些共同之處中有一點是最重要的：那就是活動本身，它在大多數情況下本身就很有趣，而且可逐漸的使你的願望得以實現。生性喜愛孩子的婦女，能夠從撫養子女中得到這種滿足。藝術家、作家和科學家如果對自己的工作感到滿意，也能以同樣的方式得到快樂。不過，還有很多是較低層次的快樂。許多在城裡工作的人到了周末自願地在自家的庭院里做無償的勞動，春天來時，他們就可盡情享受自己創造的美景帶來的快樂。

在我看來，整個關於快樂的話題一向都被太嚴肅的對待過了。過去一直有這樣的看法：如果沒有一種生活的理論或者宗教信仰，人是不可能幸福的。也許那些由於理論不好才導致不快樂的人需要一種較好的理論幫助他們重新快活起來，就像你生過病需要吃補葯一樣。但是，正常情況下，一個人不吃補葯也應當是健康的;沒有理論也應當是幸福的。真正有關系的是一些簡單的事情。如果一個男人喜愛他的妻子兒女，事業有成，而且無論白天黑夜，春去秋來，總是感到高興，那麼不管他的理論如何，都會是快樂的。反之，如果他討厭自己的妻子，受不了孩子們的吵鬧，而且害怕上班;如果他白天盼望夜晚，而到了晚上又巴望著天明，那麼，他所需要的就不是一種新的理論，而是一種新的.生活——改變飲食習慣，多鍛煉身體等等。

人是動物，他的幸福更多的時候取決於其生理狀況而非思想狀況。這是一個很庸俗的結論，然而我無法使自己懷疑它。我確信，不幸福的商人與其找到新的理論來使自己幸福，還不如每天步行六英里更見效。

第二篇：Stars on a Snowy Night雨雪時候的心情

The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.

It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.

She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”

More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.

Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.

Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !

寒暑表降到冰點下十八度的時候，我們也是在廊下睡覺。每夜最熟識的就是天上的星辰了。也不過是點點閃爍的光明，而相看慣了，偶然不見，也有些想望與無聊。

連夜雨雪，一點星光都看不見。荷和我擁衾對坐，在廊子的兩角，遙遙談話。

荷指著說：“你看維納斯(Venus)升起來了!”我抬頭望時，卻是山路轉折處的路燈。我怡然一笑，也指著對山的一星燈火說：“那邊是丘比特(Jupiter)呢!”

愈指愈多。松林中射來零亂的風燈，都成了滿天星宿。真的，雪花隙里，看不出來天空和森林的界限，將繁燈當作繁星，簡直是抵得過。

一念至誠的將假作真，燈光似乎都從地上飄起。這幻成的星光，都不移動，不必半夜夢醒時，再去追尋他們的位置。

於是雨雪寂寞之夜，也有了慰安了!

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