英语阅读小文章1
伪劣产品的危害 The Dangers of the Fake Products
“Shan Zhai” is the new words to express fake products, people use it to express the highly imitated products, some manufacturers produce the Shan Zhai products to make great profit, but it is so unfair to the customers, they pay so much money in the purpose of buying the genius stuff instead of the fake products. Fake products not only cheats people’s money, but also brings people dangers. Such as the medicine, if people buy the fake one, once they eat it, they will feel uncomfortable and get the illness, the most terrible situation is that they will kill themselves. Fake product is so harmful, though the government has taken some action to ban it, still people sold it, it is the temptation of profit that makes people sold it. What if their relatives have bought the products, so in order to keep people healthy, fake products should be banned.
“山寨”是用来表达伪劣产品的新代言词，人们使用它来表达高仿产品，一些生产商生产山寨产品以此来获取巨大的利润，但是这对于顾客来讲是不公*的，他们花费了这么多的钱，只为了买到真的产品而不是假的产品。伪劣产品不仅欺骗了人们的钱，而且给人们带来了危害。比如药，如果人们买到伪劣的，一旦服用，就会感到不舒服，生病，最严重的情形就是因此失去生命。伪劣产品是如此的有害，虽然*已经采取了一些措施来禁止售卖，但是仍然有人兜售，他们是抵挡不住金钱的诱惑。如果他们的亲戚买了这些产品，会怎样呢，因此为了人们的健康，不要再卖伪劣产品了。
英语阅读小文章2
冬天里的晴朗日子 Those Sunny Days In the Winter
When winter comes, the days are always full of rain and there are less sunshine, so it is so rare to enjoy the sunshine, people will feel excited to see the sunny days. As for me, I will be very happy when the sun comes out in the winter. I will get some plans to spend my time in the warm day, sometimes I will call my friends out and have a picnic in the park, we can not only enjoy the sunshine, but also can have a nice talk, it will strengthen our communication. Sometimes our family will have the barbecue outside, we share our food and play games so happily. I love sunshine, when I feel frustrated, I will forget about all the worries once the sun is coming out. Those sunny days in the winter are so special to me.
当冬天来临的时候，总是充满了雨水和少量的阳光，因此很难享受得到阳光，人们对晴天感到很兴奋。对于我来说，冬日里太阳出来的时候，我会感到很高兴。我会做一些计划来在温暖的日子里度过我的时光，有时候我会叫朋友出来，在公园里野餐，我们不仅能享受阳光，也能愉快地聊天，这能增进我们的交流。有时候我们家人也会在户外野餐，我们分享彼此的食物，愉快地玩游戏。我喜欢阳光，当我感到沮丧的时候，一旦阳光出来，我就会忘记所有的烦恼。冬日里的晴朗日子对于我来讲是如此的特别。
英语阅读小文章3
快递的优势 The Advantages of Express Deliver
As the development of com*r, people count on com*r so much, now most businesses are done online, trading online saves people a lot of time and it is very convenient. As more and more people choose to shop online, there comes the relative services, the most important one is express deliver. Many years ago, express deliver is not that popular, now it becomes the main tool for people to receive online products. Express deliver is very fast, the companies make the promise that the customers can get their products in three days. Many years ago, people can get their things in a week, now express deliver shorten the time. What’s more, the express deliver can deliver the products to the customers’ homes, people don’t have to go out, how convenient it is. I like to use express deliver, it facilitates my life and saves me a lot of time.
随着电脑的发展，人们很依赖电脑，现在大部分的生意都在网上成交，网上交易节省了人们很多时间，也很方便。随着越来越多的人选择网上购物，相应的服务应运而生，其中最重要的就是快递。很多年以前，快递并不是那么的受欢迎，现在它成为了人们接收网上产品的主要交通工具。快递很快速，公司承诺顾客可以在三天内收到他们的产品。很多年以前，人们能在一周内收到他们的产品，现在快递缩短了时间。而且，快递能把产品送到客人的家里，人们不用走出去，这是多么方便啊。我喜欢使用快递，它方便了我的生活，节省了时间。
英语阅读小文章4
电影的功能 The Functions of Movie
I like to see movie so much, because movie can catch my eyes so easily, I will be immerged into the story soon, unlike the books, which are full of words, make me get bored easily. One of the movie’s functions is to catch people’s attention fast, as the movie is interesting and people can see what is going on clearly. Another important function of movie is to show people the culture. We can see all kinds of the countries’ culture from the movies, a good movie reflects the director’s opinion about the world or the value. Like the American movie, individual heroism is everywhere, in the reality, American people indeed admire individual heroism, they chase for individuality. In the Indian movie, we can see there are a lot of poor people and the women’s situation is not that good. Movie is a good way for people to learn things.
我很喜欢看电影，因为电影能很容易就吸引我的眼球，我会很快就沉浸在故事里，不像书本，满满都是字，我很容易就会感到无聊。电影的其中一个功能就是能够快速吸引人们的注意，因为电影很有趣，人们可以清楚地看到进展。电影的另一个重要功能就是展示给人们文化。我们可以从电影看到很多国家的文化，一部好的电影反应了导演对于这个世界的看法和他的价值观。比如美国电影，个人英雄主义随处可见，在现实中，美国人确实崇拜个人英雄主义，他们追求个性。在印度电影中，我们可以看到很多的贫困人民，女性的状况不是很好。电影是学习的好方式。
英语阅读小文章5
I Love Summer
It is true that summer is hot, very hot. But the wicked summer sun is nothing to me, for I don't usually go out. What I like to do best during the long summer vacation is to stay in my own little room and read. I love to read, but during the school year I could hardly find a free moment for reading. Endless assignments press down upon me like a mountain. I feel confined and imprisoned. Once the summer vacation comes, however, I have all the time in the world to read and read and read. I read everything I want to read. I read to my heart's content. My room maybe small, and the sun maybe hot, but I'm free, I'm happy, I'm really living! Oh, how I love summer!
夏天的确很热，非常热。但是夏天的太阳对我来说不算什么，因为我通常不出去。在漫长的暑假里，我最喜欢做的就是呆在自己的小房间里看书。我喜欢读书，但在学年里我几乎找不到空闲的时间读书。无尽的任务像山一样压在我身上。我感到被束缚和监禁。然而，一旦暑假来了，我就有了世界上所有的时间去阅读，阅读，阅读。我想读的都读了。我尽情地读书。我的房间可能很小，太阳可能很热，但我很自由，我很快乐，我真的很有活力！哦，我多么喜欢夏天！
英语阅读小文章5篇扩展阅读
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展1）
——初级英语文章阅读3篇
初级英语文章阅读1
For years villagers believed that Endley farm was haunted. The farm was owned by two brothers, Joe and Bert Cox. They employed a few farm hands, but no one was willing to work there long. Every time a worker gave up his job, he told the same story. Farm labourers said that they always woke up to find the work had been done overnight. Hay had been cut and cow sheds had been cleaned. A farm worker, who stayed up all night, claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the
moonlight. In time, it became an accepted fact that the Cox brothers employed a conscientious ghost that did most of their work for them.
No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen. This was indeed the case. A short time ago, villagers were astonished to learn that the ghost of Endley had died. Everyone went to the funeral, for the 'ghost' was none other than Eric Cox, a third brother who was supposed to have died as a young man. After the funeral, Joe and Bert revealed
a secret which they had kept for over forty years. Eric had been the eldest son of the family. He had been obliged to join the army during the first World War. As he hated army life he decided to desert his regiment. When he learnt that he would be sent abroad, he returned to the farm and his farther hid him until the end of the war. Fearing the authorities, Eric remained in hiding after the war as well. His father told everybody that Eric had been killed in action. The only other people who knew the secret were Joe and Bert. They did not even tell their wives. When their father died, they thought it their duty to keep Eric in hiding. All these years, Eric had lived as a recluse(隐遁者, 寂寞者). He used to sleep during the day and work at night, quite unaware of the fact that he had become the ghost of Endley. When he died, however, his brothers found it impossible to keep the secret any longer.
多年来，村民们一直认为恩得利农场在闹鬼。恩得利农场属于乔.考科斯和鲍勃.考科斯兄弟俩所有。他们雇了几个农工，但谁也不愿意在那儿长期工作下去。每次雇工辞职后都叙述着同样的故事。雇工们说，常常一早起来发现有人在夜里把活干了，干草已切好，牛棚也打扫干净了。有一个彻夜未眠的雇工还声称他看见一个人影在月光下收割庄稼。随着时间的流逝，考科斯兄弟雇了一个尽心尽责的鬼，他们家的活大部分都让鬼给干了，这件事成了公认的事实。
谁也没想到农场竟会有一个从未露面的人。但事实上确有此人。不久之前，村民们惊悉恩得利农场的鬼死了。大家都去参加了葬礼，因为那"鬼"不是别人，正是农场主的兄弟埃里克.考科斯。人们以为埃里克年轻时就死了。葬礼之后，乔和鲍勃透露了他们保守了长达50多年的秘密。
埃里克是这家长子。年龄比他两个弟弟大很多，第二次世界大战期间被迫参军。他讨厌军旅生活，决定逃离所在部队。当他了解自己将被派遣出国时，他逃回农场，父亲把他藏了起来，直到战争结束。由于害怕当局，埃里克战后继续深藏不露。他的父亲告诉大家，埃里克在战争中被打死了。除此之外，只有乔与鲍知道这个秘密。但他俩连自己的妻子都没告诉。父亲死后，他们兄弟俩认为有责任继续把埃里克藏起来。这些年来，埃里克过着隐士生活，白天睡觉，夜里出来干活，一点不知道自己已成了恩得利家场的活鬼。他死后，他的弟弟们才觉得无法再保守这个秘密了。
初级英语文章阅读2
Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteeth century was the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from all other buildings in the world, for it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the biggest buildings of all time and a lot of people from many countries came to see it. A great many goods were sent to the exhibition from various parts of the world. There was also a great deal of machinery on display. The most wonderful piece of machinery on show was Nasmyth's steam hammer. Though in those days, traveling was not as easy as it is today, steam boats carried thousands of visitors across the Channel from Europe. On arriving in England, they were taken to the Crystal Palace by train. There were six million visitors in all, and the profits from the exhibition were used to build museums and colleges. Later, the Crystal Palace was moved to South London. It remained one of the most famous buildings in the world until it was burnt down in 1936.
也许是最不寻常的建筑中19世纪是水晶宫，这是建在海德公园的大展览1851。这座水晶宫不同于世界上所有的其他建筑，因为它是用钢和玻璃。这是一个最大的建筑物的所有时间，许多人从许多国家来看到它。大量的货物被送往展览从世界各地。也有很多机器显示。最妙的一台机器是内史密斯的蒸汽锤。尽管在当时，旅行不像现在这么容易，但汽船成千上万的游客从欧洲穿过海峡。一到英国，他们乘火车去水晶宫。参观者总数达六百万人，展览会的'收益用来建造博物馆和大学。后来，水晶宫被移到了伦敦南部。它一直是世界上最著名的建筑物被焚毁之前在1936。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展2）
——经典的英语文章阅读
经典的英语文章阅读1
I Will Live This Day as if It Is My Last
我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去生活
I will live this day as if it is my last.
我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去生活。
And what shall I do with this last precious day which remains in my keeping?First,I will seal up its container of life so that not one drop spills itself upon the sand. I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
我要如何利用属于我的这最后的、宝贵的一天呢?首先，我将把这生活的容器密封，把一天一天的时间好好珍藏，不让一分一秒的时间滴漏在沙滩上。我不会浪 费哪怕是一小会儿的时间为昨日的不幸、昨曰的失败、昨日的心痛而叹息。为什么 我要扔掉眼前的幸福时光呢?
Can sand flow upward in the hour glass? Will the sun rise where it sets and set where it rises? Can I relive the errors of yesterday and right them? Can I call back yesterday’s wounds and make them whole? Can I become younger than yesterday? Can I take back the evil that was spoken, the blows that were struck, the pain that was caused? No. Yesterday is buried forever and I will think of it no more.
时间的沙漏可以倒流吗?太阳会西升东落吗?我能回到昨天，改正那时的错误 吗?我能召回昨日的创伤并将之抚*吗?我能比昨天年轻吗?我能收回伤人的话、 挥出的拳头、造成的伤害吗?不能!昨日已经永远埋葬，我不会再想它。
I will live this day as if it is my last.
我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去生活。
And what then shall I do? Forgetting yesterday neither will I think of tomorrow. Why should I throw note after maybe? Can tomorrow’s sand flow through the glass before today’s? Will the sun rise twice this morning? Can I perform tomorrow’s deeds while standing in today’s path? Can I place tomorrow’s gold in today’s purse? Can tomorrow’s child be bom today? Can tomorrow’s death cast its shadow backward and darken today’s joy? Should I concern myself over events which 1 may never witness? Should I torment myself with problems that may never come to pass? No! Tomorrow lies buried with yesterday, and I will think of it no more.
那么我该怎么做呢?我将忘记昨天，我也不会去梦想明天。为什么要把时间的 钞票浪费在未知数上?明天的时间能穿过沙漏倒流，回到昨日吗?今早太阳能再次 升起吗?我能站在今天的道路上做明天的事吗?我能把明天的金币放进今天的钱袋 吗?明日出生的孩子今天会降临吗?明天的死亡能给今天的欢乐蒙上阴影吗?我要 为自己可能永远无法见证的事件担忧吗?我要用可能永远无法到来的问题来折磨自 己吗?不能!明天和昨天一样已被埋葬，我不会再想它。
I will live this day as if it is my last.
我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去生活。
This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift my arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday’s sunrise who are no longer with the living today.I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a bonus, undeserved.
今天是我仅有的一天，这些分秒现在就是我的永恒。我流着喜悦的泪水，欢呼 迎接今天的日出，就像被赦免死刑的囚犯一般。我举起双臂，感谢这无价的馈赠， 这无与伦比的新的一天。因此，当我想到昨天和我一起迎接日出的朋友今天已远离 尘世，我也会心存感激，我确实是无比幸运的人，今天的时光是我的奖赏，我本不 应该获得的奖赏。
I will live this day as if it is my last.
我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去生活。
I have but one life and life is naught but, a measurement of time. When I waste one I destroy the other. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life. Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return. It cannot be banked today to be withdrawn on the morrow，for who can trap the wind? Each minute of this day will I grasp with both hands and fondle with love for its value is beyond price. What dying man can purchase another breath though he willingly give all his gold? What price dare I place on the hours ahead? I will make them priceless!
我只有一次生命，生命不过是时间的衡量工具。当我虚度人生时，我摧毁的是 时间。如果我浪费了今天，就等于毁掉了我人生的最后一页。因此，我会珍惜今天 的每一个小时，因为它将一去不返。我们无法把今天存入银行，明日再取用，谁会 捕捉到如风一样的时间呢?今天的每一分钟我都要用双手捧住，用爱心抚摸，因为 它价值无限。哪一个垂死的人能买得一口气息，即使他花去所有的金子。我怎敢给 剩下的时间贴上价格标签?我要让它们成为无价之宝!
I will live this day as if it is my last.
我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去生活。
And if it is my last, it will be my greatest monument. This day I will make the best day of my life. This day I will drink every minute to its full.I will savor its taste and give thanks. I will make the every hour count and each minute I will trade only for something of value. I will labor harder than ever before and push my muscles until they cry for relief, and then I will continue. I will make more calls than ever before. I will sell more goods than ever before. I will earn more gold than ever before. Each minute of today will be more fruitful than hours of yesterday. My last must be my best.
如果这是我的最后一天，它将是我最伟大的丰碑。我会让今天成为人生中最美 好的一日。我会畅饮每一分钟，我会品尝它的味道并且满怀谢意。我要让每一分钟 都富有价值，每一分钟只能换取珍贵的事物。我会比以往任何时候都更努力地劳 动，用尽浑身肌肉，直到精疲力竭，之后我还将继续。我会比以往任何时候都频繁 地拜访客户，销售更多的货物，赚取更多的财富。今天的每一分钟都将硕果累累， 胜过昨日的每一小时。我的最后一天必定是我人生中最辉煌的一日。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展3）
——考研英语阅读如何了解文章结构
考研英语阅读如何了解文章结构1
一、详读重点
重点：就原文而言，就是文章的基本结构、内容和态度;就答题而言，就是问题所对应的原文的出题句。以这个标准来衡量，需要重点阅读的原文词句就不会很多，因为文章后面只有五道题，它们对应的原文在五句左右，为了回答文章后面的问题，需要重点阅读原文的下列内容：
1.宏观方面--①文章结构;②文章主题句;③各段首末句;④作者态度。
2.微观方面--①有转折处;②重要标点;③句子主干。
二、略读细节
相对于论点而言，论据是细节性的，如果明白论点，论据可以读得较快;相对于段落主题而言，解释段落主题的`支持句是细节性的。可以略读的细节包括例子和解释。
三、跳读修饰
细节性的修饰，只对论点起次要的补充说明作用，第一遍阅读时可以跳过。此外，这些细节性的东西通常也不出题，即使涉及问题，到时候看也来得及。可以跳读的细节包括：
1.两个逗号之间的问题。
2.两个破折号之间的问题。
3.人物的头衔。
4.并列叙述。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展4）
——普通话考试阅读文章5篇
普通话考试阅读文章1
在我的记忆里，我的成长之路是在读书中度过的。因为在上学前，我都是在父母的细心呵护下慢慢成长的，而进入了学校，我才慢慢的学会独立，享受成长的快乐！
可以说，从上小学的那一天起，就正式开始了我的成长之路。小学的学习生活是快乐的，每天背着书包开开心心的上学，放学后，做完老师布Z的作业后就可以出去玩了，而上了初中，学习生活就开始变得紧张了，这种紧张的生活一直延续到高考结束的那一刻，而中学六年的学习生活，也让我体味到了什么叫做充实！
转眼，大学就要过去了。大学的学习生活是丰富多彩的，相对于中学的学习生活我们有了许多自由的时间，我从小就喜欢读课外书，看一些文学名著，但一直没有充裕的时间。到了大学，没有课的时候，我常常去书馆看书，这正是我从小就向往的。
在大学里，除了学习我们必修的专业课，我们还可以把自己喜欢的课程作为我们的选修课，这不仅满足了我们的求知欲，也丰富了我们的学习生活。为了放松一下一周的心情，我常会在周未我同学去打球、跑步等，在这过程，我认识了许多别的系的学生。
再接下来的日子里，我一样会踏踏实实的学习，踏踏实实的做人，相信在离开大学校园的那一天，我会笑着对自己说：我努力了，我做到了，我无怨无悔！
普通话考试阅读文章2
其实你在很久以前并不喜欢牡丹，因为它总被人作为富贵膜拜。后来你目睹了一次牡丹的落花，你相信所有的人都会为之感动：一阵清风徐来，娇艳鲜嫩的盛期牡丹忽然整朵整朵地坠落，铺撒一地绚丽的花瓣。那花瓣落地时依然鲜艳夺目，如同一只奉上祭坛的大鸟脱落的羽毛，低吟着壮烈的悲歌离去。
牡丹没有花谢花败之时，要么烁于枝头，要么归于泥土，它跨越萎顿和衰老，由青春而死亡，由美丽而消遁。它虽美却不吝惜生命，即使告别也要展示给人最后一次的惊心动魄。
所以在这阴冷的四月里，奇迹不会发生。任凭游人扫兴和诅咒，牡丹依然安之若素。它不苟且、不俯就、不妥协、不媚俗，甘愿自己冷落自己。它遵循自己的花期自己的规律，它有权利为自己选择每年一度的盛大节日。它为什么不拒绝寒冷？
天南海北的看花人，依然络绎不绝地涌入洛阳城。人们不会因牡丹的拒绝而拒绝它的美。如果它再被贬谪十次，也许它就会繁衍出十个洛阳牡丹城。
于是你在无言的遗憾中感悟到，富贵与高贵只是一字之差。同人一样，花儿也是有灵性的，更有品位之高低。品位这东西为气为魂为//筋骨为神韵，只可意会。你叹服牡丹卓而不群之姿，方知品位是多么容易被世人忽略或是漠视的美。
普通话考试阅读文章3
记得很小的时候，每当有人问我：你长大了想做什么时，我都会毫不犹豫的说：“像爸爸一样当老师。”直到今天想起来，还能很清楚的记得，自己回答时的表情是非常自豪和骄傲的。
或许是受爸爸的影响，从小我就非常崇拜教师这个职业。小时侯和小朋友一起做游戏，我最喜欢做的就是扮演老师和学生上课的游戏。每当这个时候，我总是争着扮演老师这个角色，一会儿给学生上数学课，一会儿给学生上语文课，一会儿给学生上音乐课，当然，我也忘不了模仿老师严肃的样子，批评那些“上课”不认真听课，思想开小差的小伙伴，那时的我，觉得当一名老师实在是太神秘、太伟大了。
初中毕业后，我选择了报考师范学校，离自己的理想靠近了一大步。经过学习，慢慢地我对教师这个职业也有了新的认识。其实，教师这个职业是*凡而又普通的，作为一名教师他一辈子都在默默无闻地传道、授业、解惑。自己的学生有了出息，出了名，而教师自己呢，依然默默地坚守着自己的岗位，做着再普通不过的教学教育工作。
带着对三尺讲台的无限向往和遐想，我在师范毕业之后如愿以偿的成为了一名人民教师。记得第一次走上讲台的时候，我心里很激动，当看到学生的眼睛里充满期待的时候，我心里有一种油然而生的自豪感，同时也感觉自己的肩头沉甸甸的。
如今的我踏上讲台已经有五年了，当教师有苦也有乐，但我仍然很爱这一行，我也相信我一定会成为一名合格的人民老师。
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三十年代初，胡适在北京大学任教授。讲课时他常常对白话文大加称赞，引起一些只喜欢文言文而不喜欢白话文的学生的不满。
一次，胡适正讲得得意的时候，一位姓魏的学生突然站了起来，生气地问：“胡先生，难道说白话文就毫无缺点吗？”胡适微笑着回答说：“没有。”那位学生更加激动了：“肯定有！白话文废话太多，打电报用字多，花钱多。”胡适的目光顿时变亮了。轻声地解释说：“不一定吧！前几天有位朋友给我打来电报，请我去*部门工作，我决定不去，就回电拒绝了。复电是用白话写的，看来也很省字。请同学们根据我这个意思，用文言文写一个回电，看看究竟是白话文省字，还是文言文省字？”胡教授刚说完，同学们立刻认真地写了起来。
十五分钟过去，胡适让同学举手，报告用字的数目，然后挑了一份用字最少的文言电报稿，电文是这样写的：
“才疏学浅，恐难胜任，不堪从命。”白话文的意思是：学问不深，恐怕很难担任这个工作，不能服从安排。
胡适说，这份写得确实不错，仅用了十二个字。但我的白话电报却只用了五个字：
“干不了，谢谢！”
胡适又解释说：“干不了”就有才疏学浅、恐难胜任的意思；“谢谢”既//对朋友的介绍表示感谢，又有拒绝的意思。所以，废话多不多，并不看它是文言文还是白话文，只要注意选用字词，白话文是可以比文言文更省字的。
普通话考试阅读文章5
那是力争上游的一种树，笔直的干，笔直的枝。它的干呢，通常是丈把高，像是加以人工似的，一丈以内，绝无旁枝；它所有的桠枝呢，一律向上，而且紧紧靠拢，也像是加以人工似的，成为一束，绝无横斜逸出；它的宽大的叶子也是片片向上，几乎没有斜生的，更不用说倒垂了；它的皮，光滑而有银色的晕圈，微微泛出淡青色。这是虽在北方的风雪的压迫下却保持着倔强挺立的一种树！哪怕只有碗来粗细罢，它却努力向上发展，高到丈许，两丈，参天耸立，不折不挠，对抗着西北风。
这就是白杨树，西北极普通的一种树，然而决不是*凡的树！
它没有婆娑的姿态，没有屈曲盘旋的虬枝，也许你要说它不美丽，——如果美是专指“婆娑”或“横斜逸出”之类而言，那么，白杨树算不得树中的好女子；但是它却是伟岸，正直，朴质，严肃，也不缺乏温和，更不用提它的坚强不屈与挺拔，它是树中的伟丈夫！当你在积雪初融的高原上走过，看见*坦的大地上傲然挺立这么一株或一排白杨树，难道你就只觉得树只是树，难道你就不想到它的朴质，严肃，坚强不屈，至少也象征了北方的农民；难道你竟一点儿也不联想到，在敌后的广大土//地上，到处有坚强不屈，就像这白杨树一样傲然挺立的守卫他们家乡的哨兵！难道你又不更远一点想到这样枝枝叶叶靠紧团结，力求上进的白杨树，宛然象征了今天在华北*原纵横决荡用血写出新*历史的那种精神和意志。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展5）
——清明节的小文章5篇
清明节的小文章1
幼时的我对清明节的印象是模糊的，现在想来是因家庭条件还可以，不少吃少穿的`。
随着年龄的增长，无忧无虑的童年随着父亲的去世而定格。清明节变得清晰起来，那时的我明显的感觉到生活的艰辛，还没到清明节，就数着指头盼，为了吃上两个*日吃不到的鸡蛋。等到了那天，母亲便早早的煮上为数不多的鸡蛋，我们姊妹四个便不分大小地抢那个大的鸡蛋，往往会争执不休，最后母亲只好出面协调，我们这才高高兴兴地捧着两颗热鸡蛋跑到小树林里荡秋千，霎时树林上空便荡漾起孩童们的欢声笑语。快到中午了，“回家吃饭了—”母亲那悠长的声音在村子里回荡，我们便随着这声音跑回家。
午饭过后，母亲便领着我们姐弟四人去上坟，路上十岁的我心情变得沉重起来，弟弟妹妹们还小，打打闹闹的。到了那里，帮母亲把杂草拔出一片空地，把要祭奠的碗碟摆上，倒酒和上香，过一会，烧纸钱，然后母亲盘腿坐在地上，撕心裂肺地哭起来，我们几个也都哇哇地哭，那时候不知道劝说母亲，直到喉咙哭哑了才做吧，收拾好东西一步一回头地回家。现在想起来都感觉好凄惨，经常泪流不止。
弹指一挥间，我已进入中年，生活逐渐富足，清明节感觉就是为了怀念亲人而设，家人和孩子都不喜欢吃鸡蛋，煮鸡蛋这道程序也省去了，最近两年，国家对民族的传统节日重视起来，放小假几天，清明节过得有滋有味了，老早就联系两个较远的妹妹，希望清明节那天欢聚娘家。到了清明节，我们姐妹几个边聊家常边包水饺，四个孩子在周围跑跑跳跳，母亲更是高兴地合不拢嘴。
饭后我们一块去上坟，一路上，麦苗青青，果树发芽开花，鸟语花香，空气清新，美不胜收。对亲人的悼念不再那么伤心，好希望父亲九泉有知，能看到现在的好日子。回来的时候，顺便挖些地里的荠菜、苦菜、菊花芽之类的野菜，成为晚上餐桌上的美食。孩子们更是像放飞的笼中鸟，欢呼雀跃，充分感受大自然的宽广和美丽。
清明节的小文章2
“清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。借问酒家何处有?牧童遥指杏花村。”这是唐代大诗人杜牧写的《清明》，正如他所说，清明本是个悲伤的日子，因为清明是要祭祀祖先的，难免不会悲伤。可是海安的清明节却与杜牧所说的截然不同，海安的清明节过的分外热闹，因为每年的海安到了这个时候都会举行大规模的赶集活动。
清明节前夕，四面八方的小贩们都会蜂拥而至，不约而同的来到海安，昨天还是冷冷清清的海安，第二天一下子变得人声鼎沸。就连“丐帮”也耐不住寂寞，派出了自己各型各色的“弟子”，每每到了清明节，来到海安时，你都得注意脚下，因为动不动你就可能会踩到要么没手要么没脚的“丐帮弟子”，久而久之，这也成为海安赶集中的一道风景。
清明节早晨，我囫囵吞枣地扒了几口早饭，便迫不及待地拉起外婆和妹妹向海安的方向走去，没错，我正是要去赶集。路上，看着大大小小，男女老少的人们不谋而合地向海安涌去，我的心，充满了对海安清明节的期待，为这无法预知的一切所兴奋不已，难以自持。我像一只出笼的小鸟，兴奋地一蹦一跳地向还海安走去……
海安真热闹啊。人山人海，水泄不通，放眼望去黑压压的一片，看不到边际。人们摩肩擦踵，人头攒动，就像海里奔腾的浪花般川流不息，又像星空中的点点繁星。大家把衣服袖子举起来就像五彩的云。我吃力地挤进人流中，像刘姥姥进大观园一样，东摸摸，西看看。这里的东西可真多啊，看得我眼花缭乱：精致漂亮，琳琅满目的小饰品在阳光的照耀下发出耀眼的光芒。各种各样的小吃散发着诱人的气味，好像在呼唤行人们赶快来买它们。
可爱的小动物们卖力地摆动着自己美丽的身姿，吸引人们来观看。鲜艳的衣服像一面面五颜六色的彩旗，给海安清明节添加了几抹亮丽……赶集的人三五成群，谈笑声风，有的人拎着篮子，里面装满了自己的“战果”;有的人背着个孩子，井然有序地穿梭在人山人海中;有的人挎着个包包，不过基本都是女学生，她们边走边吃着手中各种各样的小吃，有说有笑地大步走着，她们所走过的地方洋溢着青春的味道。小贩的呦呵声，人们讨价还价的声音，扩音机的乐曲声，大家的欢笑声，此起彼伏，一浪高过一浪，汇成一曲有声有色的乐谱……
我拉着妹妹，那边看看，这里瞧瞧，这时，一股诱人的香味钻入我的鼻腔中。我一回头一看，原来是有人在卖羊肉串啊。只见那些人穿着奇形怪状的新疆服饰，随着震天动地的音乐声，忘我地扭动着身子，翻动着羊肉串。看着那美味的羊肉串，我咽了咽口水，肚子里的馋虫早就被勾出来了，我不由自主地走了过去，掏出钱，递给老板，吞吞口水说道：“老板，来十串羊肉串。”“好嘞。”老板熟练地拿起十串还是生的的羊肉串，不慌不忙地把那起十串羊肉串放在闪着红光，发出“劈里啪啦”的响声的碳炉上烤。老板不停地翻动着那十串羊肉，我的目光也片刻不离地吸在他手中羊肉串中，烤到一半的时候，我已经口水直流，再看看旁边的人，呵。也好不到哪里去，一个个如狼般地盯着老板手中的羊肉串，恨不得立刻扑上去大吃特吃。老板用刷子沾了一点羊油，均匀地在羊肉串上上上下来回地刷个不停。看见来油亮亮的。然后他又捏点孜然粉、辣椒面、盐撒在上面，又翻了几下，便大功告成了。
见羊肉串好了，我迫不及待地接过羊肉串，一串串羊肉上还滴着摇摇欲坠的羊油，金灿灿的羊肉串通体透亮，红红的羊肉烤过以后又焦又亮，在阳光下一闪一闪的，让人看了就胃口大开，垂涎三尺。我赶紧塞了一串进了嘴里，轻轻咬上一口，“滋。”油汁从羊肉里挤出来，从舌尖流到喉咙里，让人欲罢不能。羊肉烤的又焦又嫩、又软又腻，却腻而干爽。羊肉伴随着它与其身俱来的膻味，在味觉与嗅觉的双重冲击下，我忍不住吃了一串又一串……
吃完羊肉串，我又拉着妹妹玩了起来，不知不觉中，时间飞快流逝，我们该回家了，我恋恋不舍地望了一眼海安依旧热闹非凡的场景，不禁盗用了灰太狼的台词：“明年清明节，我一定会回来的。”
清明节的小文章3
清明既是节气又是节日。清明是我国农历24个节气的第5个节气。为什么又是节日呢？这要追溯到古代的“寒食节”。寒食节是每年冬至后的第105天，恰在清明的前一天，旧时民间每逢寒食节，家家户户不举火煮饭，只吃冷食。第二天是清明，人们上坟烧纸，修墓添土，以表示对亡者的怀念。这些风俗是春秋时流传下来的。
相传，春秋战国时期，晋献公的儿子重耳为躲避后母骊姬的迫害，由介子推等大臣陪同逃亡国外，他们逃到卫国时吃不上饭，又贫病交加，在绝望之时，介子推忍痛割下自己腿上的肉，谎说是野兔肉煮给重耳吃。后来有人告诉了实情，重耳才知道。19年后，重耳重又回国，做了晋国的国君即晋文公。他论功行赏，大封功臣，却惟独忘了对他忠贞不二的介子推。
待人提醒，重耳想起旧事，派人去请时，介子推避而不见。晋文公亲自登门去请，方知介子推已背了老母亲躲进了绵山，于是派人上山搜寻也未找到。晋文公知道介子推很孝顺，要是纵火烧山，他准会背着老母亲跑下山来。可是，大火烧了三天三夜，介子推母子俩也没出来，后来在一株枯柳旁发现介子推母子已被大火烧死了，介子推的脊梁堵着大柳树树洞，洞内藏着他留下的一块衣襟，上面用鲜血写着一首诗：“割肉奉君尽丹心，但愿主公常清明。柳下做鬼终不见，强似伴君做谏臣。倘若主公心有我，忆我亡时常自省。臣在九泉心无愧，勤致清明复清明。”晋文公看后十分感动，放声痛哭，将他母子二人安葬在绵山，改绵山为介山，并建庙纪念。为了铭记介子推，晋文公下令把介子推被烧死的那天定为“寒食节”，每年这一天严禁烟火，只吃冷食。第三年寒食节，晋文公率群臣到介山祭祀介子推，发现那株枯柳死而复活，便给那株柳树赐名“清明柳”，规定从寒食到清明，人们都要祭奠介子推。
以后渐将寒食节与清明相混淆，将寒食扫墓混为清明扫墓，清明逐渐代替了寒食节。
清明节的小文章4
清明节的起源，据传始于古代帝王将相“墓祭”之礼，后来民间亦相仿效，于此日祭祖扫墓，历代沿袭而成为中华民族一种固定的风俗。本来，寒食节与清明节是两个不同的节日，到了唐朝，将祭拜扫墓的日子定为寒食节。寒食节的正确日子是在冬至后一百零五天，约在清明前后，因两者日子相近，所以便将清明与寒食合并为一日。
在墓前祭祖扫墓，这个习俗在*起源甚早。早在西周时对墓葬就十分重视。东周战国时代《孟子· 齐人篇》也曾提及一个为人所耻笑的齐国人，常到东郭坟墓同乞食祭墓的祭品，可见战国时代扫墓之风气十分盛行。到了唐玄宗时，下诏定寒食扫墓为当时“五礼” 之一，因此每逢清明节来到，“田野道路，士女遍满，皂隶佣丐，皆得父母丘墓。”（柳宗元《与许京兆书》）扫墓遂成为社会重要风俗。《汉书。严延年传》载，严氏即使离京千里也要在清明“还归东海扫墓地”。就*人祖先崇拜和亲族意识的发达、强固来看，严延年的举动是合情合理的。因此后世把上古没有纳入规范的墓祭也归入五礼之中：“士庶之家，宜许上墓，编入五礼，永为常式。”得到官方的认可，墓祭之风必然大盛。
清明节已有2500多年历史，古时又叫踏青节、三月节、祭祖节、扫墓节、扫坟节、鬼节等。它与七月十五的中元节、十月初一的寒衣节，并称为*三大著名“鬼节”。公历四月五日前后为清明节，是二十四节气之一。在二十四个节气中，既是节气又是节日的只有清明。
清明节的小文章5
今天是四月五日清明节，也就是祭祖的日子，家家户户忙着帮祖先的家园清理一翻，当然，我们家也不例外。
今天，天才一破晓，爸爸就催促我们赶快起来，一听到爸爸如狮吼般的声音后，我赶紧起床。拖着沉重的步伐，往厕所走去梳洗，大家梳洗完毕后，就前往墓园啰！因为今天是清明节，所以祭祖的人潮也就特别多，一辆辆车子如车水马龙般的，感觉很拥挤。一到了那儿，大伙先去拜土地公，拜完了土地公，我们再去墓园扫墓。我想一年之久都没有去清除杂草，杂草是否长了呢？
结果一到了墓园，杂草真的长得好高，真是野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。我正要拔杂草时，妈妈提醒我不要心急，她说没有戴手套，手很容易受伤。这时爸爸从塑胶袋中拿出准备好的焟烛、打火机、纸钱和祭祀的贡品。接着，爸爸将焟烛用打火机点燃，再燃烧纸钱。而妈妈和我则一起拔杂草，在家中绰号“管家婆”的妹妹也来参一脚。而我们一直忙到傍晚才拖着疲惫的身子回家，回到家中个个都躺在床上睡觉了。
清明扫墓的习俗，源自宋朝。宋朝这一天拜扫新坟，其他的坟墓在寒食节扫祭。清明扫墓到了明清以后，才渐普遍。仅管如此，有一则关于清明扫墓的传说故事却是汉高祖刘邦留下的：汉高祖刘邦打败了西楚霸王项羽以后，光荣的返回故里，想到父母的坟上祭拜，却因为连年战乱，使得一座座坟墓，杂草丛生，墓碑更是东倒西歪，有的断落，有的破裂，无法辨认碑上的文字。
刘邦找不到父母的坟墓，非常的难过，经过一番祷告祈求才发现父母的坟墓。刘邦赶紧派人重修坟墓，并且在每年的清明一定来到坟上祭拜。后来就演变为民间扫墓的习俗！这样的故事，或许有些牵强附会，因为根据记载，清明扫墓的习俗，在宋代才开始，距离汉高祖时期，已有一千两百多年。
说到清明节，家家户户都一起扫墓。但是在扫墓的过程中，是否想到了仙逝的祖先或父母。我相信，我们有像今天那么好的物质享受，是祖先先前的智慧所发展出来的。有些人父母在世时不知善待父母，等到父母死后才恍然大悟，给父母祭拜昂贵的食物，不过你想想这样对吗？所以孝顺应当要即时，才不会有树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不在的遗憾。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展6）
——英语阅读材料5篇
英语阅读材料1
China’s Singles’ Day tops US$1.5bil in first three minutes
*“双十一”成交额三分钟破15亿美元
It’s a shopping spree of epic proportions and all it took was three minutes for the numbers on this screen to reach 10 billion yuan.
这是一场史无前例的购物狂欢，只用了三分钟，屏幕上的成交额就达到了100亿元人民币。
That’s the equivalent of more than 1.5 billion dollars and it’s just the beginning forsales and Alibaba’s Singles Day, an annual online discount sales gala that’sbecome the world’s biggest spender-thon.
总计相当于15多亿美元。而这只是消费的开始。天猫“双十一”购物狂欢节是阿里巴巴集团一年一度的线上促销盛典，现已成为全世界最为盛大的买手节。
Once a celebration for China’s Lonely Hearts, Singles day has become a 24-hourextravaganza that outsells Black Friday and Cyber Monday US sales combined.
“双十一”曾被*单身青年叫做“光棍节”，如今这场历时24小时的火爆网购，其成交记录已经超过美国“黑色星期五”和“网络星期一”两大促销日的销售额总和。
The event has shoppers around China scouting for bargains while delivery men and robots brace foran estimated 1.5 billion parcels expected over the next few days.
活动激动人心，吸引全*的顾客搜罗特价商品，快递员和快递机器人预期要在未来几天派送 15亿件包裹。
Alibaba says the rise in China’s middle class consumers is driving the sales and theoverall total is likely to top last year’s, something *ysts and investors will be watching closely in the coming hours.
阿里巴巴表示，*逐渐扩大的中产阶级消费群体正在拉动销售，总销售额可能达到历年之最，分析人士和投资者也将会在接下来的时间继续密切关注。
英语阅读材料2
Swiss zoos are accepting unwanted pet ’donations’ and FEEDING them to tigers and other carnivores
宠物不想养了怎么办?瑞典人直接送动物园喂老虎
Swiss zoos are reportedly accepting unwanted pets which are killed and then fed to large carnivores such as tigers.
据报道，瑞士动物园接受被抛弃的宠物，将它们杀死后投喂给老虎等大型食肉动物。
At the Zurich Zoo, rabbits, guinea pigs and rats are given to the carnivores to eat, according to Swiss local media.
据瑞士当地媒体报道，苏黎世动物园将兔子、天竺鼠、老鼠当做肉食动物的口粮。
Zoo director Alex Ruebel, who revealed this happens around six times a year, said: ’The guinea pigs or rabbits are killed by a veterinarian, then fed to the tigers, lions and snow leopards.’
动物园园长艾利克斯.鲁培尔透露，这种事情每年都会发生6次左右，“先由兽医将豚鼠或兔子杀死，然后喂给老虎、狮子或雪豹”。
The zoo director also said that mice are given to the zoo’s owls. Other animals such as dogs are however denied by the zoo.
鲁培尔还表示，动物园会把老鼠喂给猫头鹰，但拒绝狗狗等其他动物。
According to Ruebel, the pets are not cut up into pieces but are fed in their entirety to the zoo’s carnivores.
据鲁培尔介绍，这些宠物不会被切碎，而是整只投喂给园内的肉食动物。
He said: ’The reason for this is that we want to show what is natural. And carnivores eat meat together with the entrails.’
他说：“因为我们想按照自然的方式去做这件事，肉食动物们会将肉和内脏一起吃下。”
Ruebel said that some desperate pet owners even smuggle their pet inside the zoo where they release them inside an indoor rain forest.
鲁培尔称，一些绝望的宠物主人甚至会将他们的宠物偷偷带进园内，将它们放进室内热带雨林中。
However, not all Swiss zoos accept pets.
然而，并不是所有的瑞士动物园都接受宠物。
Spokesman Valentin Kressler of the Basel Zoo said: ’We do not accept such animals, as we do not know their health status.’
巴塞尔动物园的发言人瓦伦汀.克勒斯来尔称：“我们不接受这样的动物，因为我们不清楚其健康状况。”
Swiss animal protection NGOs are shocked by the number of pets being offered to zoos.
动物园接受宠物的数量让瑞士民间动物保护组织感到震惊。
Helen Sandmeier of Swiss Animal Protection said: ’It is not possible that one accepts the death of their pet.’
瑞士动物保护组织的海伦.桑德梅尔表示：“一个人不可能让自己的宠物去死。”
Sandmeier said that when buying a pet, you automatically take on the responsibility of caring for the animal, which includes giving it a good new place when someone can no longer take care of it.
桑德梅尔称，当你购买宠物时，就自动承担起照顾它的责任，这其中就包括当你不能再照料它时，再给它找一个舒适的新家。
Antoine Goetschel, founder of Global Animal Law, also blasted the ’predominant throwaway mentality’ of many pet owners.
《全球动物法》奠基人安东尼.哥切尔也炮轰许多宠物主人“不负责任的心态”。
However, both Goetschel and Sandmeier showed some understanding for the zoos.
然而，哥切尔和桑德梅尔都对动物园的做法表示理解。
Goetschel said: ’If they would openly offer the acceptance of pets, they would become a shelter for unwanted pets.’
哥切尔称：“如果动物园公开接受宠物，它们就会成为被遗弃宠物的收容所。”
英语阅读材料3
Earth Hour is organized by WWF. With almost 5 million supporters and a global network in over 100 countries, it’s one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the Earth's natural environment and build a future where people live in harmony with nature.
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals and more than 2,000 businesses turned their lights off for one hour to take a stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustai*lity movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, CN Tower in Toronto, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.
In March 2009, hundreds of millions of people took part in the third Earth Hour. Over 4000 cities in 88 countries officially switched off to pledge their support for the planet, making Earth Hour 2009 the world’s largest global climate change initiative.
On Saturday 27 March, Earth Hour 2010 became the biggest Earth Hour ever. A record 128 countries and territories joined the global display of climate action. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Asia Pacific to Europe and Africa to the Americas switched off. People across the world from all walks of life turned off their lights and came together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet.
Earth Hour 2011 took place on Saturday 26 March at 8.30PM (local time). It continued to be a call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world. A call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the global journey to a sustainable future.
英语阅读材料4
What is it like being a film star? What’s it like in front of the camera? Students from Steamboat Springs Middle School in the US could tell you exactly what it’s like. They recently got a taste of the life of a star.
A local movie company decided to produce a film. All the actors in this film were to be students. Fourteen students were chosen from the school. The film, called Ruby vs Wolfgang, was based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood (《小红帽》). It came with a twist (改变), however – the story was told from the perspective (看法) of the wolf.
Zoe Walsh, a seventh-grader, signed up to do behind-the-scenes work. But she soon found herself in front of the camera instead. She played a strange middle school student in the film.
“It’s just fun,” she told the Steamboat Today. “Just pretending (假装) that you’re someone else.”
But there were also difficulties. It was very cold during shooting. Students had to put up with snow and icy wind.
Lack (缺乏) of experience was another problem. The director Michael Staley said he tried to “help each student bring out the wolf – or whatever animal they were representing – in themselves”.
Erus Harrington, an eighth-grader, said he played a “nice, silly British guy”. He learned the British accent (口音) all on his own.
“I just kind of taught myself how to do it by watching videos,” he said. “It makes me feel good after I do it because I’m proud of myself.”
The students will watch themselves on the big screen for the first time during the film festival at a local high school in May.
“I’m probably going to laugh at myself,” said Zach Walsh, the brother of Zoe.
4. 太阳能:保护人类家园的绿色能源。词数 290 建议阅读时间 6分钟
Thousands of years ago, people didn’t know that the Earth moved. They thought the sun really did move across the sky. The Greek god Helios was said to drive the sun around the sky with his chariot (战车). But now, these ideas have all changed. Nowadays, it is the sun that drives our “chariot” around the sky.
So what does all this mean? Well, quite sim*, there is now a plane (or “chariot”) that is powered by the sun. It has special parts in its wings. These parts absorb power from the sun. They absorb so much power that they can carry on flying at night. In the Greek myths, Helios had to take a break at night. It seems we’re finally even more efficient than the gods themselves.
This plane is called Solar Impulse (“太阳驱动”号). It will fly across the US in May. This is very important for the future of the world.
So why is solar energy so good for us? Well, other kinds of energy cause a few problems. If you live in China, you’ve probably noticed the pollution. This is caused by burning coal or gas to make energy. The heat and chemicals (化学制品) from this make things work. But if we use the heat from the sun, we don’t have to burn anything, and there’s no pollution.
Solar energy is not all there yet. It needs to be improved. But the best thing about it is that, unlike coal and gas, it doesn’t run out. Solar Impulse could pretty much keep flying forever. Well, actually, the sun will run out too, one day, but not for another 5 billion years. That’s a pretty long flight.
英语阅读材料5
Bacon said: "reading to yi jing, enough to digg, long enough to just."Reading is to increase the key to gain knowledge.
There are celebrities in the world since the ancient times have introducedthe benefits of reading, some scholars also once said, reading a good book islike a conversation with noble people.
Reading, can make you gain understanding, and every day to read an articleis your knowledge increase many. Reading not only makes you augmented stories,still can increase the extracurricular knowledge. In the textbook knowledge isnot enough, want to rely on yourself to read reference books, so read enough todigg.
Reading can help you more, when wonder at you, you can read a book, take alook at the article, can help you TaoYang temperament...
In addition, you can also choose different books to read, for example:adventure of detective novels, deep-rooted love novels, history books about thehistory... Can read science fiction and fantasy is leading role, to recallwithin the scene, books have aftertaste. Read some books about travel, like tovisit all over the world...
Reading can not only grace to static, digg,and the way is to increaseknowledge, so everyone should take time to read every day.
培根说：“读书足以怡静、足以博采、足以长才。”说明阅读是增加知识的不二法门。
由古至今，世界上有很名人都曾介绍阅读的好处，也有学者曾说过读一本好书，犹如同高尚的人谈话。
阅读，可以令你增广见闻，每天阅读一篇文章已令你的学问增加不少。阅读不但令你增广见闻，还可以增加课外知识。课本里的知识是不足够的，要靠自已去阅读课外书才行，因此读书足以博采。
阅读更可以帮助你解闷，当你十分纳闷时，你可以读读书、看看文章，就可以助你陶养性情……
除此之外，你还可以选择不同的书籍来阅读，例如：惊险刺激的侦探小说、刻骨铭心的爱情小说、有关历史的历史书……阅读科幻小说，可以幻想自已是主角，再回想书内的情景，已经回味不已。阅读一些有关旅游的书籍，犹如到世界各地游览……
阅读不但可以怡到静、博采，而且是增加知识的不二法门，所以大家应该每天抽点时间阅读。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展7）
——公共英语二级阅读文章3篇
公共英语二级阅读文章1
The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
All living cells send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small —— often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.
The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. (An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to the length of its body.
当今时代是电气时代。人们对电灯、收音机、电视和电话早已司空见惯以致很难想象没有它们生活会变成什么样。当停电时，人们在摇曳不定的烛光下暗中摸索;因没有红绿灯的指示，汽车在道路上迟疑不前;冰箱也停止工作，导致食物变质。人们只是在两个世纪前一点才开始了解电的使用原理，自然界却显然在这方面经历过了数百万年。科学家不断发现许多生物世界里可能有益于人类的关于电的有趣秘密。所有生物细胞都会发出微小的电脉冲。当心脏跳动时，把它发出的脉冲记录下来就成了心电图，这可让医生了解心脏的工作状况。大脑也发出脑电波，这可在脑电图上记录下来。许多生物细胞发出的电流都是极微小的，小到要用灵敏仪器才能记录和测量。但一些动物的某些肌肉细胞能转化成一个个发电机，以致完全失去肌肉细胞的功能。这种细胞大量地连接在一起时产生的效果将是非常令人吃惊的。电鳗就是一种令人惊异的蓄电池。它可以在水中发出相当于800伏特电压电流(家庭用户的电压只有120伏特)。在电鳗的身体里，多至五分之四的细胞都专门用来发电，而且发出的.电流的强度大约和它身体的长度成正比。
英语阅读小文章5篇（扩展8）
——公共英语三级阅读文章3篇
公共英语三级阅读文章1
A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm —— two entirely different movements.
Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner's responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties: the hammers that hit the strings have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.
This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sounds with fanatical but selfless authority.
Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.
画家将已完成的作品挂在墙上，每个人都可以观赏到。作曲家写完了一部作品，得由 演奏者将其演奏出来，其他人才能得以欣赏。因为作曲家是如此完全地依赖于职业歌手和职 业演奏者，所以职业歌手和职业演奏者肩上的担子可谓不轻。一名学音乐的学生要想成为一名演奏者，需要经受长期的、严格的训练，就象一名医科的学生要成为一名医生一样。绝大多数的训练是技巧性的。音乐家们控制肌肉的熟练程度，必须达到与运动员或巴蕾舞演员相当的水*。歌手们每天都练习吊嗓子，因为如果不能有效地控制肌肉的话，他们的声带将不能满足演唱的要求。弦乐器的演奏者练习的则是在左手的手指上下滑动的同时，用右手前后拉动琴弓——两个截然不同的动作。
歌手和乐器演奏者必须使所有的音符完全相同协调。钢琴家们则不用操这份心，因为每个音符都已在那里等待着他们了。给钢琴调音是调 音师的职责。但调音师们也有他们的难处：他们必须耐心地调理敲击琴弦的音锤，不能让音锤发出的声音象是打击乐器，而且每个交叠的音都必须要清晰。
如何得到乐章清晰的纹理是学生指挥们所面临的难题：他们必须学会了解音乐中的每一个音及其发音之道。 他们还 必须致力于以热忱而又客观的权威去控制这些音符。除非是和音乐方面的知识和悟性结合起来，单纯的技巧没有任何用处。艺术家之所以伟大在于他们对音乐语言驾轻就熟，以致于可以满怀喜悦地演出写于任何时代的作品。
音乐方面的知识和悟性结合起来，单纯的技巧没有任何用处。艺术家之所以伟大在于他们对音乐语言驾轻就熟，以致于可以满怀喜悦地演出写于任何时代的作品。
公共英语三级阅读文章2
If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1830's and 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.
With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress —— conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis.This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle Class, whose desires for homeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-family housing tracts.
如果"郊区"指的是比已建好的城市内部发展更为迅速的城市边缘地带，那么郊区化可以说始于1825 年至1850年工业化城市出现期间。在这之前，城市只是高度密集的小聚居群。在其中，人们步行走动，商品靠马车来运送。但是建于18 世纪三四十年代的早期工厂位于城边的航道和铁路附近，被工作机会吸引到这里的成千上万的人们需要住房。渐渐地，在与旧有的主要城区相毗邻的地方，不断涌现出由排房和公寓楼组成的工人聚居区，包围了工厂。作为对这种侵蚀的自卫，也为了扩大它们收税的地域范围，城市吞并了工业化的临近地带，比如1854 年费城的城区就兼并了费县的绝大部分地区。相似的城市化也发生在芝加哥和纽约。今天很多美国的`大城市其实就是靠吞并它们附近的边缘地区而变成大都会的。
随着工业化的加速发展，城市里出现了严重拥挤和相伴而来的社会压力。当1888 年第一条商业上成功的电气化铁轨被制造出来时，压力开始接近危机的程度。几年之内，马车就被废弃了，电车网相互交织连接着各个重要的城区，从而形成了一种郊区化的潮流，即密集的工业城市转变成了分散的都市。此时城市中产阶级的出现进一步加强了第一波大规模郊区化。这些中产阶级希望在远离老旧城市的地区拥有住宅，单一家庭住宅地区的开发者满足了他们的愿望。单一家庭住宅地区的开发者满足了他们的愿望。
公共英语三级阅读文章3
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited sup* are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the"system" of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else. If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define "price", many would re* that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that ap* to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total "package" being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
价格决定资源的使用方式。价格也是有限的产品与服务在买方中的配给手段。美国的价格系统是复杂的网状系统，包括经济生活中一切产品买卖的价格，也包括名目繁多的各种服务，诸如劳动力、专职人员、交通运输、公共事业等服务的价格。所有这些价格的内在联系构成了价格系统。任何一种个别产品或服务的价格都与这个庞大而复杂的系统密切相关，而且或多或少地受到系统中其它成份的制约。如果随机挑选一群人，问问他们如何定义"价格"，许多人会回答价格就是根据卖方提供的`产品或服务，买方向其付出的钱数。换句话说，价格就是市场交易中大家认同的产品或服务的货币量。该定义就其本身来说自有其道理。但要获得对价格在任何一桩交易中的完整认识，就必须考虑到大量"非货币"因素的影响。买卖双方不但要清楚交易中的钱数，而且要非常熟悉交易物的质量和数量，交易的时间、地点，采用哪种形式付款，有怎样的缓付和优惠，对交易物的质量保证、交货条款、退赔权利等等。也就是说，为了能估算索价，买卖双方必须通晓构成交易物价格的通盘细节。
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初二英语课外阅读文章1
How to keep fit
Running
Running will help you lose weight faster than any other activity. It also strengthens (加强) your heart, lungs, and leg muscles (肌肉). But it can hurt your joints (关节). If you feel ache in your knees, you need to stop and choose a different activity.
Walking
Walking puts less stress on the body than running. But you need to get your heart beating faster to see results. This means you’ll need to walk fast. Walking can also help you lose weight.
Swimming
Swimming is a great way to strengthen different parts of your body. But it is not a good way to lose weight. The water in a swimming pool is cooler than our body temperature. The body naturally protects itself from the cold by keeping fat.
Cycling
Riding a bicycle will help you lose weight and work leg muscles. But be careful! If you live in the city, you should stay on bike path and away from traffic.
初二英语课外阅读文章2
crossed the street to avoid meeting him, but he saw me and came running towards me. It was no use pretending that I had not seen him, so I waved to him. I never enjoy meeting Nigel Dykes. He never has anything to do. No matter how busy you are, he always insists on coming with you. I had to think of a way of preventing him from following me around all morning.
'Hello, Nigel,' I said. 'Fancy meeting you here!'
'Hi, Elizabeth,' Nigel answered. 'I was just wondering how to spend the morning -- until I saw you. You're not busy doing anything, are you?'
'No, not at all,' I answered. 'I'm going to...'
'Would you mind my coming with you?' he asked, before I had finished speaking.
'Not at all,' I lied, 'but I'm going to the dentist.'
'Then I'll come with you,' he answered. 'There's always plenty to read in the waiting room!
我穿过马路以便避开他，但他看到了我并朝我跑过来。它是没有用的，我假装没有看见他，所以我向他挥手致意。我就怕遇到奈吉尔。他从来都是无事可做。不管你有多忙，他总是坚持要跟你去。我得想办法不让他整个上午缠着我。"你好，奈吉尔，"我说。"怎么会在这里遇见你!嗨，伊丽莎白，"奈吉尔回答说。"我正不知道怎么消磨这一上午--直到我看到你。你不忙，是吗?"不，不，"我回答。"我要……""你介意我跟你一起去吗?"他问，在我结束发言。"不，"我撒谎道，"但是我要去牙医。""那我也跟你去，"他说。"候诊室里总有很多阅读!