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高三英语晨读晚练1Step 1 Reading and memorizing1.fiction n.小说；虚构或想象出来的事情；编造；谎言story n.故事；小说；新闻报道；假话；来历novel n 小说adj.新奇的；异常的2.desire n.渴望；欲望；渴求vt.希望得到；想要long for 渴望appetite n.食欲；嗜好3.hobby n.嗜好；业余爱好habit n.习惯；习性；嗜好4.wish for 希望得到be eager for渴求want/wish/intend 想要5.satisfaction n.满意；满足；令人满意的事物satisfy vi.令人满意，令人满足vt.满足meet vt.满足，遇见，对付satisfied adj.感到满意的satisfying adj. 令人满意的，令人满足的pleased adj.满意的content/contented adj. 满意的，满足的be satisfied/pleased/content with sb./sth. 对……满意6.test out 试验；考验test n.试验；检验v.试验；测试experiment v.尝试；进行实验n.实验；试验trial n.审判；试验；试用7.bonus n.额外津贴；奖金；红利8.alarm vt.使警觉；使惊恐；惊动n.警报；惊恐warn vt.警告；提醒；通知vi.发出警告；发出预告9.frighten vt.使惊吓；吓唬vi.害怕；惊恐shock vt.使休克；使震惊；使震动；使受点击disturb vt.打扰；妨碍；使不安；弄乱；使恼怒warning n.警报panic n.恐慌；惊慌vt.使恐慌vi.十分惊慌alarm clock 闹钟alarmed adj.担心的；害怕的afraid adj.害怕的；恐怕的；担心的worried adj.担心的；发愁的be alarmed about sb/sth10.sympathy n.同情（心）pity n.怜悯；同情；遗憾；可惜vt.对……表示怜悯；对……感到同情overweight adj.超重的；体重超常的over adv.越过weight n.重量；重力；负担；砝码weigh vi.重量为……；具有重要性vt.权衡；考虑；称……重量11. elegant adj.优雅的；高雅的；讲究的gentle adj.温和的；文雅的polite adj.有礼貌的；客气的；文雅的；上流的12.favour n.喜爱；恩惠vt.喜爱；偏袒love n.恋爱；酷爱；喜爱的事物；爱情；爱意；疼爱；热爱；爱人；所爱之物like n.爱好；同样的人或物13.kindness n.仁慈；好意；友好的行为mercy n.仁慈；宽容；怜悯；幸运；善行merciful adj.仁慈的；慈悲的；宽容的14. pile n.堆；摞；叠vi.堆起；堆积；vt.把。
每日英语晨读小短文1.每日英语晨读小短文篇一人生的两条真理The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of Old put it this way:" A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but whenhe dies, his hand is open.生活的艺术是要懂得何时紧紧抓住，何时学会放弃。
因为人生就是一对矛盾，它促使我们牢牢抓住人生的很多赐予，但同时又注定了我们对这些给予最终的放弃。
老一辈犹太学者是这样说的：人来到这个世界的时候拳头是紧握的，而当离开的时候，手却是松开的。
Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly real ize that it is no more.当然，我们应该仅仅抓住生活，因为生活是神奇的，是充满着美的——上帝创造的大地的每一个空间都充斥着至美。
我们都知道这点，但我们却常常在回首往事之时才明白这个道理，然后突然意识到逝去的时光已经一去不复返了。
(一) Care your dream(By Vanessa Sanchez)当梦想遭到现实的撞击时，总会发出凄美的破碎声。
心灵被梦想的碎片刺痛，散落的碎片上还残留着斑斓的颜色。
然而，心灵的疼痛却有着催人成长的力量。
梦想的幻灭，是因为它没有得到精心的照料。
去呵护你的梦想吧！勇敢地站在舞台中央，跳一曲快乐的人生芭蕾。
My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just he ld on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me.I always have the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina twirling around and around and hearing people applaud for me. When I was young, I would twirling around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard. For hours I would dance as if people were watching me. I would dance so fast that I would forget where I was, until I would hear sounds that reminded me of where I really was. I thought that if I twirled faster everything would disappear and I would wake up in a new place. Reality woke me up when I heard a voice saying, "I don't know why you bother trying to dance. Ballerinas are pretty, slender little girls. Besides, you don't have the talent to even be a ballerina." I remember how those words paralyzed every feeling in my body. I feel to the ground and wept for hours.We lived in the country by a nearby lake and I would sometimes go there to hide. My parents were never home anyway and I did not like to be at home where I could hear the walls talking of pain. When they were home, my mother just yelled and criticized because nothing was ever perfect in her life. She dreamed of a different life but ended up living in a country far away from the city where she believed her dreams would have come true.I enjoyed hanging out by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection. There I was, looked nothing like a pretty ballerina dancer. Reflections don't lie. Once the waves would come, my reflection was gone. Washed away just like my dream to dance. I sat there staring at the water, hoping that my reflection would reappear and be different.As I grew older, I began to realize that the reason my dream was even born in the first place, was because it was something that was inside of me. The dream I had was never nurtured and cared for, so it slowly died. It's not that I wanted it to die, but I allowed it to die the day I started listening to the words, "You can't do it." When I finally woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that you can't settle for dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the platform. I still go to the lake sometimes and sit there. Looking at my reflection is different now too. When I was young, I looked at how others saw me, now that I am older and wiser; I look at how God sees me.(二) Learn to be gratefulHello, everybody! Welcome to my blog, I'm Vivianna. Yesterday I read an encouraging essay, called "learn to be grateful". I hope you will enjoy this essay and wish all of you in this bigear family can make a better and more beautiful life!!Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom.. It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time so long as he lives in the world. We should learn how to face failure or misfortune bravely and generously and to try to deal with it. If so, should wecomplain about our life and become frustrated and disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves after a fall? William Thackeray, a famous British writer, said, “Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it , it will also smile and so will it when you cry to it.” If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight. If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.I think we should even be grateful to life whenever we are unsuccessful or unlucky. Only by doing this can we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail. We can also get relief and warmth when we are unlucky. This can help us find our courage to overcome the difficulties we may face, and receive great impetus to move on. We should treat our frustration and misfortune in our life in the other way just as President Roosevelt did. We should be grateful all the time and keep having a healthy attitude to our life forever, keep having perfect characters and enterprising spirit. Being grateful is not only a kind of comfort, not an escape from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like Ah Q. Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.When we put a small piece of alum into muddy water, we can see the alum can soon make the water clear. If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, we’ll be able to get rid of impulse, upset, dissatisfaction and misfortune. Being grateful can bring us a better and more beautiful life.(三) Make friendsEveryone needs friends, and if you fail to make friends, you should examine yourself and see if there is something wrong with your personality.May be you have social faults such as snobbishness, talkativeness and using slang etc. which drive away your new acquaintances. Whatever your social faults may be, look at them honestly and make real effort to correct them.To be friendly you must feel friendly. Cheerfulness is the basis of friendliness. A cheerful person smiles. A smile is a magnet which draws people. A smile at someone and you are almost sure to get a smile in return.A friendly person does his best to make a stranger feel at home, wherever he happens to be. Put yourself in the other fellow's place and make them feel welcome.Try to remember names. It makes your new acquaintances feel happy when you call them by their names. It gives them the feeling that they have made an impression on you and that must mean something to them because you remember them.If you don't agree with other people on a certain matter, you should appear to be friendly. Don't argue, but discuss. You always lose friends if you argue too much.A friendly person thinks of others, and doesn't insist on his own "rights". People who refuse to consider others have few friends.Finally, don't treat people according to their social positions. Really friendly people respect everyone at all times.(四) Pray For My MotherDear God ,Now that I am no longer young , I have friends whose mothers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers until it was too late to tell them .I am blessed with the dear mother who is still alive. I appreciate her more each day. My mother does not change , but I do. As I grow older and wiser , I realize what an extraordinary person she is . how sad that I am unable to speak these words in her presence, but they flow easily from my pen .How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life itself? For the love, patience and just plain hard work that go into raising a child ? for running after a toddler, for understanding a moody teenager, for tolerating a college student who knows everything? For waiting for the day when a daughter realizes how wise her mother really is ? How does a grown woman thank a mother for continuing to be a mother? For being ready with advice(when asked) or remaining silent when it is most appreciated? For not saying, “I told you so .” when she could have uttered these words dozens of times? For being essentially herself- loving , thoughtful , patient, and forgiving?I don’t know how , dear God , except to ask you to bless her as richly as she deserves and to help me live up to the example she has set. I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother looks in mine.--A daughter(五) Beautiful Smile and Love(Mother Teresa)诺贝尔奖领奖台上响起的声音往往都是文才飞扬、热烈、激昂。
铜山区魏集中学七年级英语晨读手册( Unit 1 )反义词：tall –short long –shortold—new old—youngfat –thin good – bad big –small happy –sad clean –dirtyheavy –light busy—free black—white busy –lazy现在分词：sitting putting getting running swimming stopping jogging shopping beginning 词语短句：1.Nice to meet you .2.How are you ?I’m fine . Tha nk you !3.Good morning.4.Good afternoon .5. Good evening .6. Good night !7.What’s your name ? My name is…8. an orange / apple / eraser / egg9. A an English teacher10.an American boy11. Glad to see you !12. Let’s go !13.have a look14.be nice to me / us / you15.clever people / foolish people16.a photo of my family17. my new friend18.in Class 4 Grade 7 19.play basketball / football20.be from / come from21.over there22. There is…/ There are…23.fly a kite / fly kites24.go home25.go to school26.go to the cinema27.go for the holiday28.go for a picnic29.go shopping30.go fishing31.go swimming32.wear glasses33.(be) at school34.talk about35.think about36.worry about37.care about38.look after…39.take care of…40.have short hair / have long hair41.be good at…. 42.do well in…43.listen to music44.listen to the teacher45.play games / play computer games46. live with ….47. like all the lessons48.love sports49.Welcme to …50.Oh, I see .51.How old are you ?I’m…years old.52.like doing / love doing / enjoy doing…53.after class / after school54.at Sunshine Middle School55.tall and slim。
英语晨读小短文英语晨读小短文篇一《一张有趣的报纸》Every morning Mike goes to work by train.每天早上迈克坐火车去上班。
As he has a long trip, he always buys a newspaper.由于路途遥远，他总会买一份报纸。
It helps to make the time pass more quickly.它可以让时间过得更快一点。
One Tuesday morning, he turned to the sports page.一个星期二的早晨，他把报纸翻到体育版。
He wanted to read the report about an important football match.他想读一篇关于一场重要足球比赛的报道。
The report was so interesting that he forgot to get off at his station.这篇报道很有趣，以至于他忘了下车。
He didn't know it until he saw the sea. 直到他看到大海他才知道。
He got off at the next station, and had to wait a long time for a train to go back. 他在下一站下了车，然后要等很久才有回去的车。
Of course, he got to the office very late. 当然，他上班迟到了。
His boss was very angry. 他的老板非常生气。
英语晨读小短文篇二《一个男孩和一个女孩》Many boys and girls in western countries wear the same clothes.在西方国家，很多男孩和女孩穿一样的衣服。
Many of them have long hair, so it is hard to tell whether they are boys or girls.他们中的许多人有长头发，所以很难辨别他们是男孩还是女孩。
英语简单晨读美文英语简单晨读美文（精选15篇）英语是一种西日耳曼语支，最早被中世纪的英国使用，并因其广阔的殖民地而成为世界使用面积最广的语言。
下面是小编整理的英语简单晨读美文，欢迎大家分享。
英语简单晨读美文篇1Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eyes. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is too warm for it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers. This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the kitchen window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I've often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditches would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers. Everyday I drove past the flowers thinking, “I'll stop on my way home and dig them.”“Gee, I don't want to get my good clothes dirty...” Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a folding shovel one year for my trunk to be used for that expressed purpose. One day on my way home from work, I was saddened to see that the highway department had mowed the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you waited too long. You should have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring.” A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor. She is 20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, because of age and distance, we h aven’t been as close as we all would have liked. I couldn’thelp but see the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my husband's sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us. And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and transplant them to my wildflower garden.英语简单晨读美文篇2There are lives that have bread in abundance and yet are starved; with barns and warehouses filled, with shelves and larders laden they are empty and hungry. No man need envy them; their feverish, restless whirl in the dust of publicity is but the search for a satisfaction never to be found in things. They are called rich in a world where no others are more truly, pitiably poor; having all, they are yet lacking in all because they have neglected the things within. The abundance of bread is the cause of many a man's deeper hunger. Having known nothing of the discipline that develops life's hidden sources of satisfaction, nothing of the struggle in which deep calls unto deep and the true life finds itself, he spends his days seeking to satisfy his soul with furniture, with houses and lands, with yachts and merchandise, seeking to feed his heart on things, a process of less promise and reason than feeding a snapping turtle on thoughts. It takes many of us altogether too long to learn that you cannot find satisfaction so long as you leave the soul out of your reckoning. If the heart be empty the life cannot be filled. The flow must cease at the faucet if the fountains go dry. The prime, the elemental necessities of our being are for the life rather than the body, its house. But, alas, how often out of the marble edifice issues the poor emaciated inmate, how out of the life having many things comes that which amounts to nothing.The essential things are not often those which most readily strike our blunt senses. We see the shell first. To the undeveloped mind the material is all there is. But looking deeper into life there comes an awakening to the fact and the significance of the spiritual, the feeling that the reason, the emotions, the joys and pains that have nothing to do with things, the ties that knit one to the infinite, all of which constitute the permanent elements of life.英语简单晨读美文篇3I was up before the sunrise one October morning, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped and crept to the hollow places, then stole away in line and column, holding skirts and clinging subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung over grass-land, while the brave lines of the hills came forth, one beyond other gliding. The woods arose, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests. Autumn's mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a bridegroom than a father. Yet before the floating impress of the woods could clear itself, suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting amber, blue, and purple, and a tint of rich red rose, according to the scene they lit on, and the curtain flung around; yet all alike dispelling fear and the cloven hoof of darkness, all on the wings of hope advancing, and proclaiming, "God is here!" Then life and joy sprang reassured from every crouching hollow; every flower and bud and bird had a flutteringsense of them, and all the flashing of God's gaze merged into soft beneficence. So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great ocean; when glory shall not scare happiness, neither happiness envy glory; but all things shall arise, and shine in the light of the Father's countenance, because itself is risen. 英语简单晨读美文篇4I'm 16. The other night while I was busy thinking about important social issues, like what to do over the weekend, I overheard my parents talking about my future. My dad was upset—not the usual stuff that he and Mom worry about, like which college I'm going to, how far away it is from home and how much it's going to cost. Instead, he was upset about the world his generation is turning over to mine. He sounded like this: "There will be a pandemic that kills millions, a devastating energy crisis, a horrible worldwide depression and a nuclear explosion set off in anger." As I lay on the living room couch, starting to worry about the future my father was describing, I found myself looking at some old family photos. There was a picture of my grandfather in his uniform. He was a member of the war class. Next to his picture were photos of my great-grandparents. Seeing those pictures made me feel a lot better. I believe tomorrow will be better, not worse. Those pictures helped me understand why.I considered some of the awful things my grandparents and great-grandparents had seen in their lifetimes: two world wars, killer flu, a nuclear bomb. But they saw other things, too, better things: the end of two world wars, the polio vaccine, passage of the civil rights laws. I believe that my generation will see better things, too —that we will witness the time when AIDS is cured and cancer is defeated; when the Middle East will find peace, andthe Cubs win the World Series—probably only once. I will see things as inconceivable to me today as a moon shot was to my grandfather when he was 16, or the Internet to my father when he was 16. Ever since I was a little kid, whenever I've had a lousy day, my dad would put his arm around me and promise me that "tomorrow will be a better day." I challenged my father once, "How do you know that?" He said, "I just do." I believed him. As I listened to my Dad talking that night, so worried about what the future holds for me and my generation, I wanted to put my arm around him, and tell him what he always told me: "Don't worry Dad, tomorrow will be a better day."英语简单晨读美文篇5One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France than at any other time before or since.Everything in Marseilles and about Marseilles had stared at the fervid sun, and had been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their loads of grapes. These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves. The universal stare made the eyes ache.Towards the distant blue of the Italian coast, indeed, it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else. Far away the dusty vines overhanging wayside cottages, and the monotonous wayside avenues of parched trees without shade, dropped beneath the stare of earth and sky. So did the horseswith drowsy bells, in long files of carts, creeping slowly towards the interior; so did their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted laborers in the fields. Everything that lived or grew was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and cicada, chirping its dry hot chirp, like a rattle. The very dust was scorched brown, and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were panting. Blinds, shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to deep out the stare.Grant it but a chink or a keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow.英语简单晨读美文篇6Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eyes.I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is too warm for it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers. This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the kitchen window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I've often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditches would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers. Everyday I drove past the flowers thinking, “I'll stop on my way home and dig them.” “Gee, I don't want to get my good clothes dirty...” Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a folding shovel one year for my trunk to be used for that expressed purpose. One day on my way home from work, I was saddened to see that the highway department had mowed the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you waited too long. You should have doneit when you first saw them blooming this spring.”A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor. She is 20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, because of age and distance, we haven’t been as close as we all would have liked. I can not help but see the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my husband's sister and us.I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us. And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and transplant them to my wildflower garden.英语简单晨读美文篇7I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper.They have a character, perhaps two; they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; one, to my certain knowledge,spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highland. I never heard of anyone making an “outline”, as we were taught at school. In the breaking and remaking,in the timing, interweaving,beginning again, the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began. This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination. A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone; but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.Sometimes the passion within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers who read nothing but their ownbooks; like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot understand the exact outline of the vision before them. For the same reason, writers talk endlessly about their own books, digging up hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them. Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore. This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing:he has begun to write to please.A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist,has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.英语简单晨读美文篇8In order to experience everlasting love in life, you ought to first figure out what is missing in your life and then fill in the gaps. People fall in and out of love because they expect their lovers to be everything to them and do everything for them. They then become dissatisfied when the partner fails to meet all their requirements. If you have a dream of achieving everlasting love you better create your very own life crowned by hobbies, interests and beneficial passions. This makes you a full lover when you enjoy a complete, interesting life on your own. Create a worldof your own. On your to-do-list add forgiveness. It is always healthy to forgive while you can, disappointments and sadness is a part of life.Some people find it hard to forgive their partners especially if they happened to catch them cheating on them. Seek professional help from a marriage and relationship counselor. This is an important move towards search for everlasting love. Most buried resentments are the cause to failed marriages and broken relationships. At one time they resurface and blow the present things out of proportion. To find a smooth sail in your love life you have to learn to forgive and move on with a clean slate. Accept changes when they arrive instead of fighting the reality. In life change is inevitable. At one time you will be loved, dumped, married, you will have children, become sick and die. You should acknowledge the happenings in life and move through them strongly. No matter how settled you might be it is good to know that things can change in an instant.Always accept the unexpected. Always find Happiness in what you have and be grateful to own what you have. It is a great secret to everlasting love. Despite the greatest fear and uncertainties of the unknown, when the inevitable things happen you will look back on the good old times and wish that you had been more grateful when things were more colorful. To enjoy your love life you should give thanks every moment and learn to appreciate the small problems we experience because unknown to us they can get worse and some time they probably will. T o experience how it feels to have everlasting love, create time for each other as lovers. Many people who are unhappy keep on postponing time to be together. People get caught up in the many and demanding daily activities and forget to get time tolive for today.It happens to me and you. There will always be more laundry, more house chores and more errands to be carried out. It is a routine where we retire to bed when we are very exhausted late at night only to awake and follow the same routine again the next day. To live life to the fullest stop at some point and take time for yourself and for each other too. T oday might be the only gift you have in life so live like there is no tomorrow. The precious moments we reckon in life are achieved by creating time for them against the much pressure of work. Create such short and fleeting moments everyday to enjoy everlasting love.英语简单晨读美文篇9The greatest peace, I believe, is the peace which we derive from our faith in God Almighty; from certainty about our relationship with our Creator. Crises might beset us, battles might rage about us — but if we have faith and the certainty it brings, we will enjoy peace — the peace that surpasses all understanding.我相信，最伟大的和平源于我们对万能的上帝的信赖，源于我们和造物主之间关系的确定性。
超有激情的晨读英语美文必读英语晨读是对英语课内学习的有效延续和补充,良好的英语晨读不仅可以让学生及时复习课堂学习的知识,预习新的内容,而且还能加强口语学习,是英语学习的重要组成部分。
以下是店铺为大家整理的关于晨读英语美文，给大家作为参考，欢迎阅读!晨读英语美文篇1：Of StudiesStudies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them bothers; but that would be only in the lessimportant arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.Reading make a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。
英语晨读（一）I see a cat I see a carI see a bird I see a treeI see a bear I see a dogI see a duck I see a gooseI see a goat I see an appleI see an alligator I see an eggI see an elephant I see an ice cream I see a fish I see a frog.My cat is up in the tree.My dog is up in the house.Let's go in the house.I like ice cream I like dogs./ducks I like bears./birds. I like cars./cats.I like apples./alligators. I like books.I like fish/frogs. I like geese./ goats.I like elephants/eggsDo you like ice creams?Do you like bears/birds?Do you like cars/cats?Do you like geese/goats?Do you like apples/alligators?Do you like elephants/eggs?Do you like fish/frogs?Do you like books?Yes. I do. /No,I don't.Dad got a frog for meMum got an egg for me.This is for me This is for you This is an alligator. This is an apple. This is an egg This is an elephant. This is an ice cream.This goose is for you. This fish is for me. This goat is for Dad. This banana is for Mum。
高中英语适合晨读24篇1. The Power of DreamsDreams have the power to inspire, motivate, and drive us towards our goals. They fuel our imagination and push us to reach for the stars. With belief and perseverance, dreams can become a reality. So, never stop dreaming and daring to pursue what sets your soul on fire.梦想的力量梦想有着激励我们、激发我们动力的力量。
它们助燃我们的想象力，推动我们去追逐星辰。
相信自己，坚持不懈，梦想就能成为现实。
所以，永远不要停止梦想，勇敢去追求让你心灵激荡的东西。
2. The Beauty of FriendshipFriendship is a gift that brings joy, support, and companionship. It is about being there for each other through thick and thin, laughing together, and sharing life's ups and downs. True friends are like stars, always shining bright, and their presence makes our journey through life more beautiful.友谊之美友谊是一份带来快乐、支持和陪伴的礼物。
它是关心彼此、同甘共苦、分享人生起伏的体现。
真正的朋友就像星星，永远闪耀着光芒，他们的存在让我们在人生旅途中更加美丽。
3. The Power of KindnessKindness has the power to brighten someone's day and change lives. A small act of kindness can go a long way and create a ripple effect of positivity. So, let's spread kindness wherever we go, for in the end, it is kindness that truly makes the world a better place.善意的力量善意有着照亮他人一天并改变生活的力量。
Unit 1 Can you play the guitar?Section A重点单词➢朗读下列单词1．吉他n.guitar2．唱歌v. sing3．游泳v. & n. swim4．跳舞v. 舞蹈n.dance5．画v.draw6．国际象棋n.chess7．说（某种语言）；说话v. speak 8．参加; 加入v.join9．俱乐部; 社团n.club10．讲述；告诉v.tell11．故事；小说n.story12．写作；写字v.write13．演出; 节目n. 给…展示v.show 14．或者；也不conj.or15．说话;交谈v. & n.talk16．（中国）功夫n.kungfu★朗读下列单词变形1．write—writer (名词)作家2．tell—teller (名词) 3．draw—drawing (名词) 4．swim—swimmer (名词)游泳者5．story—stories (复数) 6．speak—speaker (名词) 7．sing—singer (名词)歌手8．dance—dancer (名词)跳舞者重点短语➢朗读下列短语1．下国际象棋play chess2．说英语speak English3．弹吉他play the guitar4．加入音乐俱乐部join the music club 5．游泳俱乐部swimming club6．美术俱乐部art club7．运动俱乐部sports club8．讲故事俱乐部the story telling club 9．擅长于……be good at……10．喜欢画画like to draw11．跟某人说话talk to sb.12．在音乐室里in the music room 13．学校演出school show 14．向我们展示一下show us重点句子➢朗读下列句子1. 我想加入美术俱乐部。
I want to join the art club.2. —你想加入什么俱乐部？—我想加入国际象棋俱乐部。
UNIT 1TEXTWant to know how to improve your grades without having to spend more time studying? Sounds too good to be true? Well, read on...How to Improve Your Study HabitsTerhaps you are an average student with average intelligence. You do well enough in school, but you probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily the case, however. You can receive better grades if you want to. Yes, even students of average intelligence can be top students without additional work. Here's how:1. Plan your time carefully. Make a list of your weekly tasks. Then make a schedule or chart of your time. Fill in committed time such as eating, sleeping, meetings, classes, etc. Then decide on good, regular times for studying. Be sure to set aside enough time to complete your normal reading and work assignments. Of course, studying shouldn't occupy all of the free time on the schedule. It's important to set aside time for relaxation, hobbies, and entertainment as well. This weekly schedule may not solve all of your problems, but it will make you more aware of how you spend your time. Furthermore, it will enable you to plan your activities so that you have adequate time for both work and play.2. Find a good place to study. Choose one place for your study area. It may be a desk or a chair at home or in the school library, but it should be comfortable, and it should not have distractions. When you begin to work, you should be able to concentrate on the subject.3. Skim before you read. This means looking over a passage quickly before you begin to read it more carefully. As you preview the material, you get some idea of the content and how it is organized. Later when you begin to read you will recognize less important material and you may skip some of these portions. Skimming helps double your reading speed and improves your comprehension as well.4. Make good use of your time in class. Listening to what the teacher says in class means less work later. Sit where you can see and hear well. Take notes to help you remember what the teacher says.5. Study regularly. Go over your notes as soon as you can after class. Review important points mentioned in class as well as points you remain confused about. Read about these points in your textbook. If you know what the teacher will discuss the next day, skim and read that material too. This will help you understand the next class. If you review your notes and textbook regularly, the material will become more meaningful and you will remember it longer. Regular review leads to improved performance on test.6. Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. The world won't end if you don't pass a test, so don't worry excessively about a single test. Tests provide grades, but they also let you know what you need to spend more time studying, and they help make your knowledge permanent.There are other techniques that might help you with your studying. Only a few have been mentioned here. You will probably discover many others after you have tried these. Talk with your classmates about their study techniques. Share with them some of the techniques you have found to be helpful. Improving your study habits will improve your grades.NEW WORDSaveragen. ordinary 普通的；中等的intelligencen. ability to learn and understand 智力necessarilyad. inevitably 必定casen. what has really happened; actual condition 实情additionala. added 附加的，额外的n. additionweeklya. done or happening every week 每周的；一周一次的schedulen. timetable 时间表chartn. (sheet of paper with) information written or drawn in the form of a picture 图（表）commitvt. 指定...用于asidead. to the side在旁边；到（向）一边etc(Latin, shortened form for et cetera) and other things等等normala. usual正常的readingn. the act or practice of reading阅读assignmentn. sth. given out as a task(布置的)作业occupyn. take up占用relaxationn. (sth. done for) rest and amusement休息，娱乐relaxv.hobbyn. what one likes to do in one's free time业余爱好entertainmentn. show, party, etc. that people enjoy娱乐entertainvt.solvevt. find an answer to (a problem)解决（问题）awarea. having knowledge or understanding知道的；意识到的furthermoread. moreover; in addition而且；此外enablevt. make (sb.) able (to do sth.)使（某人）能（做某事）activityn. sth. (to be) done 活动adequatea. as much as one needs; enough充分的；足够的distractionn. sth. that draws away the mind or attention分心（或分散注意力）的事物concentrate (on or upon)vi. pay close attention (to)全神贯注（于）skimvt. read quickly to get the main ideas (of)略读previewvt. have a general view of (sth.) beforehand预习contentn. what is written in a book, etc.内容organizevt. form into a whole组织laterad. 后来；以后skipvt. pass over略过portionn. part; share一部分；一份doublev. make or become twice as great or as many（使）增加一倍comprehensionn. the act of understanding or ability to understand理解（力）mentionvt. speak or write about (sth.) in a few words提及confuseda. mixed up in one's mind迷惑的，混淆的confusevt.textbookn. a standard book for the study of a subject教科书；课本performancen. achievement成绩meaningfula. having important meaning or value富有意义的attituden. what one thinks about sth.态度，看法purposen. aim目的，意图excessivelyad. too much过多地，过分地excessivea.permanenta. lasting for a long time; never changing持久的；永久的techniquen. way of doing sth.技巧，方法helpfula. useful; providing help or wiling to help有益的；给予帮助的，肯帮忙的PHRASES & EXPRSSIONSfill inwrite in填写，填充decide onmake a choice or decision about选定，决定set asidesave for a special purpose留出as wellalso; too; in addition也，还；同样be aware (of)know (sth.); know (what is happening)知道，意识到concentrate ondirect one's attention, efforts, etc. to全神贯注于look overexamine (quickly)把...看一遍，过目go overreview 复习lead toresult in 导致UNIT 2TEXTAt sixty-five Francis Chichester set out to sail single-handed round the world. This is the story of that adventure.Sailing Round the WorldBefore he sailed round the world single-handed, Francis Chichester had already surprised his friends several times. He had tried to fly round the world but failed. That was in 1931.The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race. His old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do it, as he had lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan. In August, 1963, at the age of nearly sixty-five, an age when many men retire, he began the greatest voyage of his life. Soon, he was away in this new 16-metre boat, Gipsy Moth.Chichester followed the route of the great nineteenth century clipper ships. But the clippers had had plenty of crew. Chicheater did it all by himself, even after the main steering device had been damaged by gales. Chichester covered 14, 100 miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia. This was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone.He arrived in Australia on 12 December, just 107 days out from England. He received a warm welcome from the Australians and from his family who had flown there to meet him. On shore, Chichester could not walk without help. Everybody said the same thing: he had done enough; he must not go any further. But he did not listen.After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, Chichester set off once more in spite of his friends' attempts to dissuade him. The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part, during which he sailed round the treacherous Cape Horn.On 29 January he left Australia. The mext night, the blackest he had ever known, the sea became so rough that the boat almost turned over. Food, clothes, and broken glass were all mixed together. Fortunately, bed and went to sleep. When he woke up, the sea had become calm the nearest person he could contact by radio, unless there was a ship nearby, Wild be on an island 885 miles away.After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn, Chichester sent the followiing radio message to London:" I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare. Wild horses could not drag me down to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean again."Juat before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening 28 May, 1967, he aeeived back in England, where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him. Queeh Elizabeth II knigthed him with the very sword that Queen Elizabeth I had sailed round the world for the first time. The whole voyage from England and back had covered 28, 500 miles. It had taken him nine months , of which the sailing time was 226 days. He had done what he wanted to accomplish.Like many other adventurers, Chichester had experienced fear and conquered it. In doing so, he had undoubtedly learnt something about himself. Moreover, in the modern age when human beings depend so much on machines, he had given men throughout the world new pride.NEW WORDSsingle-handeda & ad. (done) by one person alone 单独的（地）adventuren. 冒险（活动）soloa. single-handed 单独的transatlantica. crossing the Atlantic Ocean 横度大西洋lungn. part of the body with which one breathes 肺cancern. 癌determineda. with one's mind firmly made up 下定了决心的determinev.determinationn.retirevi. stop working at one's job(because of age) 退休voyagen. sea journey 航海；航行routen. way from one place to another 路线clippern. 快速帆船crewn. group of people who work together on a ship or aeroplane 全体船员；全体乘务员steervt. make (esp. a boat or road vehicle) go in a particular direction 为...撑舵devicen. a piece of equipment设备；装置steering devicen. 操舵装置damagevt. cause harm or injury to 损坏ad. harm, injury 损坏galen. very strong wind大风covervt. travel (a certain distance)行过（一段距离）previouslyad. before 以前UNIT 3TEXTThey say that blood is thicker than water, that our relatives are more important to us than others. Everyone was so kind to the old lady on her birthday. Surely her daughter would make an even bigger effort to please he?The PresentIt was the old lady's birthday.She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor flat she could see the postman when he came down the street, and the little boy from the ground floor brought up her letters on the rare occasions when anything came.Today she was sure the would be something. Myra wouldn't forget her mother's birthday, even if she seldom wrote at other times. Of course Myra was busy. Her husband had been made Mayor, and Myra herself had got a medal for her work the aged.The old lady was proud of Myra, but Enid was the daughter she loved. Enid had never married, but had seemed content to live with her mother, and teach in a primary school round the corner.One evening, however, Enid said, "I've arranged for Mrs. Morrison to look after you for a few days, Mother. Tomorrow I have to go into hospital--just a minor operation, I'll soon be home."In the morning she went, but never came back--she died on the operating table. Myra came to the funeral, and in her efficient way arranged for Mrs. Morrison to come in and light the fire and give the old lady her breakfast.Two years ago that was, and since then Myra had been to see her mother three times, but her husband never.The old lady was eight today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps--perhaps Myra might come. After all, eighty was a special birthday, another decade lined or endured just as you chose to look at it.Even if Myra did not come, she would send a present. The old lady was sure of that. Two spots of colour brightened her cheeks. She was excited--like a child. She would enjoy her day.Yesterday Mrs. Morrison had given the flat an extra clean, and today she had brought a card and a bunch of marigolds when she came to do the breakfast. Mrs. Grant downstairs had made a cake, and in the afternoon she was going down there to tea. The little boy, Johnnie, had been up with a packet of mints, and said he wouldn't go out to play until the post had come."I guess you'll get lots and lots of presents," he said, "I did last were when I was six."What would she like? A pair of slippers perhaps. Or a new cardigan. A cardigan would be lovely. Blue's such a pretty colour. Jim had always liked her in blue. Or a table lamp. Or a book, a travel book, with pictures, or a little clock, with clear black numbers. So many lovely things.She stood by the window, watching. The postman turned round the corner on his bicycle. Her heart beat fast. Johnnie had seen him too and ran to the gate.Then clatter, clatter up the stairs. Johnnie knocked at her door."Granny, granny," he shouted, "I've got your post."He gave her four envelopes. Three were unsealed cards from old friends. The fourth was sealed, in Myra's writing. The old lady felt a pang of disappointment."No parcel, Johnnie?""No, granny."Maybe the parcel was too large to come by letter post. That was it. It would come later by parcel post. She must be patient.Almost reluctantly she tore the envelope open. Folded in the card was a piece of paper. Written on the card was a message under the printed Happy Birthday -- Buy yourself something nice with the cheque, Myra and Harold.The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. Slowly the old lady stooped to pick it up. Her present, her lovely present. With trembling fingers she tore it into little bits.NEW WORDSrelativen. 亲属，亲戚presentn. gift 礼物，赠品postmann. 邮递员rarea. not happening often 罕见的；不常发生的occasionn. special time; time when sth. happens 时刻，时机；场合mayorn. chief official of a city or town 市长medaln. 奖章ageda. oldcontenta. satisfied; pleased 满意的；高兴的primarya. first; earliest 首要的；最初的arrangevi. make preparations; plan 作安排，筹划minora. not serious or important 较小的；次要的operatevi. cut the body in order to set right or remove a diseased part 开刀，动手术operating tablen. a special table in a hospital, where operations are done 手术台funeraln. 葬礼efficienta. able to plan and work well 效率高的decaden. ten yearsendurevt. bear (pain, suffering, etc.) 忍受，忍耐spotn. a round area that is different from the main surface 点，斑点brightenvt. make bright or brighter 使发光；使发亮cheekn. either side of the face below the eye 面颊extraa. additional 额加的，外加的cleann. cleaningbunchn. things of the same kind that are tied together （一）束，（一）串marigoldn. 万寿菊（花）packetn. small parcel box 小包（裹）mintn. 薄荷糖slippern. 拖鞋cardigann. （羊毛）开衫clattern. a number of rapid short knocking sounds 咔嗒声grannyn. (colloq. for)grandmotherenvelopen. a paper cover for a letter 信封unsealeda. 未密封的sealvt.sealeda. 密封的writingn. handwriting 书法；笔迹pangn. sudden, sharp pain 剧痛disappointmentn. sadness because one does not get what one hopes for 失望disappointvt.parceln. 包裹reluctantlyad. unwillingly 不情愿地，勉强地reluctanta.foldvt. bend into two or more parts 折叠chequen. 支票fluttervt. move quickly to and fro in the air 飘动stoopvi. bend the body forwards and downwards 弯腰tremblevi. shake uncontrollably with quick short movements 颤抖PHRASES & EXPRESSIONSat other timeson other occasions 在别的时候；平时round / around the cornervery near in distance or time 在附近；即将来临after allin spite of everything; it must be remembered 毕竟；终究be sure of对...有把握，确信pick uptake hold of and lift up from a surface 拿起，捡起PROPER NAMESMyra迈拉（女子名）Enid伊妮德（女子名）Morrison莫里森（姓氏）Grant格兰特（姓氏及男子名）Johnnie约翰尼（John的昵称）Jim吉姆（James的昵称）Haroldpreviousa.attemptn. try 试图，尝试dissuadevt. prevent (sb.) from doing sth. by reasoning 劝阻treacherousUNIT 4TEXTMany people in the United States spend most of their free time watching television. Certainly, there are many worthwhile programs on television, including news, educational programs for children, programs on current social problems, plays, movies, concerts, and so on. Nevertheless, perhaps people should not be spending so much of their time in front of the TV. Mr Mayer imagines what we might do if we were forced to find other activities.Turning off TV: a Quiet HourI would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening, right after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in the United States be prohibited by law.Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results be if such a proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our problems -- everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness -- are caused at least in part by failure to communicate. We do not tell each other what is disturbing us. The result is emotional difficulty of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active pastimes. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset. Or they might take a walk together (remember feet?) and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes.With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading. There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programming. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can barely write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product ofthe quiet hour.A different form of reading might also be done, as it was in the past: reading aloud. Few pastimes bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour ends, the TV networks might even be forced to come up with better shows in order to get us back from our newly discovered activities.At first glance, the idea of an hour without TV seems radical. What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But it is not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control American free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can remember childhoods without television, spent partly with radio -- which at least involved the listener's imagination -- but also with reading, learning, talking, playing games, inventing new activities. It wasn't that difficult. Honest. The truth is we had a ball.NEW WORDSworthwhilea. good enough for the time or effort needed; valuable 值得花时间（或精力）的；有价值的program (me)n. performance on radio or television 节目educationala. of or for education; providing education or information 教育的；有教育意义的currenta. of the present time 当前的sociala. of or in society 社会的movien. film that one sees at a cinema 电影neverthelessconj. but; however 然而，不过proposevt. suggest 建议broadcastingn. the action of sending out sound (or images) by radio (or television) 广播prohibitv & n. forbid by law 禁止proposalvt. suggestion 提议，建议actuallyn. in actual fact, really 实际上generationn. all the people about the same age （一）代gapn. an empty space between two things or two parts of a thing; a wide difference of opinion, character, or the like 缺口，间隙；分歧，隔阂divorcen. end of a marriage by law 离婚raten. 率mentala. of the mind 精神的；思想上的communicatevi. share or exchange opinions, ideas, etc. 交流意见，思想等disturbvt. make (sb.) worried 使烦恼emotionala. 感情的pastimen. anything done to pass time pleasantly 消遣，娱乐sunsetn. the going down of the sun; the time when the sun goes down日落（时分）neighborhoodn. the area around a point or place 邻近地区；地段adultn. 成年人typicala. 典型的educatorn. a person whose profession is education 教育家barelyad. hardly 仅仅，勉强；几乎没有literatea. able to read and write 能读写的；有文化的productn. sth. made or grown 产品networkn. 广播（或电视）联播公司；广播（或电视)网glancen. quick look 一瞥；扫视radicala. extreme; very different 激进的electronica. 电子的electronn.baby-sittern. someone who looks after a child when the parents are away for a short time （代人临时）照看婴儿childhoodn. time when one is a child 童年partlyad. not completely; in some degree 部分地；在一定程度上involvevt. have as a part or result （必须）包括imaginationn. the ability to imagine 想像力learningn. the gaining of knowledge or skill through studying; knowledge or skill gained through studying 学习；学问，知识inventvt. produce (sth.) for the first time 发明PHRASES & EXPRESSIONSgeneration gapfailure of the younger and older generations to communicate and understand one another 代沟in partin some degree; partly 在一定程度上；部分地grow upchange from a child to a man or a woman 成长，长大bring togethercause to meet 使相聚come up withthink of; produce 想出；提出at first glancewhen first seen or thought about乍一看；最初考虑时have a ball(sl.) enjoy oneself, have a very good time 玩得开心PROPER NAMESMayer迈耶（姓氏）the United States美国a. more dangerous than it seems 暗藏危险的；奸诈的capen. 海角rougha. (of weather or the sea) stormy; not calm （气候）有暴风雨的；（海）波涛汹涌的ad. luckily 幸运地；幸亏fortunatea.contactvt. get in touch with 联系，接触nearbyad. close by 在附近followinga. next; to be mentioned immediately 接着的；下列的wakenv. (cause to) wake 唤醒；醒来nightmaren. terrible dream 恶梦dragvt. pull along with great effort 拖，拉sinistera. 凶恶的，邪恶的knightn. 爵士vt. 封... 为爵士swordn. 剑，刀accomplishvt. finish successfully完成conquervt. overcome征服undoubtedlyad. certainly无疑地moreoverad. in addition此外，而且humana. of or concerning people人们beingn. a living thing, esp. a person生物；人PHRASES & EXPRESSIOMSset outbegin a course if action着手，开始give upatop doing放弃be determined to (do)have a strong will to (do)决心（做）(completely) alonein spite ofnot taking notice of; not caring about 尽管；虽然by farby a large amount or degree...得多turn over(cause to) fall over, upset（使）翻倒，（使）倾覆can not helpcan not keep oneself from禁不住PEOPER NAMESFrancis Chichester弗朗西斯. 奇切斯特Gipsy Moth吉普赛. 莫斯Sydney悉尼（澳大利亚城市）Cape Horn合恩角（智利）London伦敦Elizabeth伊丽莎白（女子名）Drake德雷克（姓氏）UNIT 5TEXTA miserable and merry Christmas? How could it be?A Miserable, Merry ChristmasChristmas was coming. I wanted a pony. To make sure that my parents understood, I declared that I wanted noting else."Nothing but a pony?" my father asked."Nothing," I said."Not even a pair of high boots?"That was hard. I did want boots, but I stuck to the pony. "No, not even boots.""Nor candy? There ought to be something to fill your stocking with, and Santa Claus can't put a pony into a stocking,"That was true, and he couldn't lead a pony down the chimney either . But no. "All I want is a pony," I said. "If I can't have a pony, give me nothing, nothing."On Christmas Eve I hung up my stocking along with my sisters.The next morning my sisters and I woke up at six. Then we raced downstairs to the fireplace. And there they were, the gifts, all sorts of wonderful things, mixed-up piles of presents. Only my stocking was empty; it hung limp; not a thing in it; and under and around it -- nothing. My sisters had knelt down, each by her pile of gifts; they were crying with delight, till they looked up and saw me standing there looking so miserable. They came over to me and felt my stocking: nothing.I don't remember whether I cried at that moment, but my sisters did. They ran with me back to my bed, and there we all cried till I became indignant. That helped some. I got up, dressed, and driving my sisters away, I went out alone into the stable, and there, all by myself, I wept. My mother came out to me and she tried to comfort me. But I wanted no comfort. She left me and went on into the house with sharp words for my father.My sisters came to me, and I was rude. I ran away from them. I went around to the front of the house, sat down on the steps, and, the crying over, I ached. I was wronged, I was hurt. And my father must have been hurt, too, a little. I saw him looking out of the window. He was watching me or something for an hour or two, drawing back the curtain so little lest I catch him, but I saw his face, and I think I can see now the anxiety upon on it, the worried impatience.After an hour or two, I caught sight of a man riding a pony down the street, a pony and a brand-new saddle; the most beautiful saddle I ever saw, and it was a boy's saddle. And the pony! As he drew near, I saw that the pony was really a small horse, with a black mane and tail, and one white foot and a white star on his forehead. For such a horse as that I would have given anything.But the man came along, reading the numbers on the houses, and, as my hopes -- my impossible hopes -- rose, he looked at our door and passed by, he and the pony, and the saddle. Too much, I fell upon the steps and broke into tears. Suddenly I heard a voice."Say, kid," it said, "do you know a boy named Lennie Steffens?"I looked up. It was the man on the pony, back again."Yes," I spluttered through my tears. "That's me.""Well," he said, "then this is your horse. I've been looking all over for you and your house. Why don't you put your number where it can be seen?""Get down," I said, running out to him. I wanted to ride.He went on saying something about "ought to have got here at seven o'clock, but--"I hardly heard, I could scarcely wait. I was so happy, so thrilled. I rode off up the street. Sucha beautiful pony. And mine! After a while I turned and trotted back to the stable. There was the family, father, mother, sisters, all working for me, all happy. They had been putting in place the tools of my new business: currycomb, brush, pitchfork -- everything, and there was hay in the loft.But that Christmas, which my father had planned so carefully, was it the best or the worst I ever knew? He often asked me that; I never could answer as a boy. I think now that it was both. It covered the whole distance from broken-hearted misery to bursting happiness -- too fast, A grown-up could hardly have stood it.NEW WORDSmiserablea. causing unhappiness; very unhappy 悲惨的merrya. cheerful, full of lively happiness, fun, etc. 欢乐的，愉快的ponyn. a small horse 矮种马；小马bootn. 长统靴candyn. (AmE) sweets 糖果stickingn. 长（统）袜chimneyn. 烟囱even. 前夕fireplacen. 壁炉mixed-upa. (different things) put together混合的，混杂的limpa. soft; not stiff or firm软的；松沓的kneelv. go down or remain on the knee(S)跪下indignanta. angry at sth. unfair气愤的；愤慨的stablen. building for keeping and feeding animals, esp. horses马厩weepv. cry哭泣；流泪rudea. not at all polite粗鲁的，不礼貌的wrongvt. treat unjustly委屈curtainn. 窗帘lestconj. for fear that唯恐，以免anxietyn. fear caused by uncertainty about sth.焦虑impatiencen. inability to wait calmly不耐烦，急躁patiencen.brand。
