英语文章课外阅读

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【篇⼀】⼩学⽣英语课外阅读⽂章3篇 People love parrots for their beautiful and bright colours. They are clever birds. They can learn to talk. They are able to tell if objects are the ‘same’ or ‘different’. There are more than 300 different kinds of parrots. Like other birds, parrots are animals in the wild. They like flying and they like trees. When people buy them from pet shops, parrots have to live in cages. They feel bad there. So if you keep parrots, you’d better give them a big cage. Remember to feed your parrots with good food and give them fresh water to drink. You can feed them with cooked rice and fruits. Many people think parrots are lovely birds. That is why so many people keep parrots at home and talk with them all the time and make friends with them.　【篇⼆】⼩学⽣英语课外阅读⽂章3篇 Almost everyone likes to eat apples. Apples grow in nearly every part of the world. The United States produces more apples than any other country except France. The states of Washington and New York grow the most apples. New York is on the east coast and Washington is on the west near Canada. Apples are red, yellow or green. They are very popular in the United States. Many people like to carry apples to work or to school to eat with their lunches. Most American people are often too busy or too tired to cook, so they often have their lunches very simply. Apple juice is also a popular drink and apple pie is the favorite dessert of many Americans. The state of Washington is proud of its apples. The trees there produce nearly five billion apples every year - one apple for every man, woman and child in the whole world.【篇三】⼩学⽣英语课外阅读⽂章3篇 Jimmy lives in a country,and he loves playing in the river near his house,But his father gets a job in a big city,and he moves there with his family. Their new house has a garden,but the garden is small,Jimmy isn't happy"Is there a river near here?"He asks his mother on the first morning.His mother answers,"No,there isn't,but there's a nice park near here and there's a good pool in it.Weare going there this afternoon."Jimmy is happy now. After lunch,Jimmy and his mother go to the park.Jimmy wants to walk near the pool,but there's a sign before it.His mother reads it to him,"Warning;This pool is dangerous.367people fell into it."Jimmy looks into the pool carefully,and he says"But I can't see them".【篇四】⼩学⽣英语课外阅读⽂章3篇 Do you know anything about the way of shopping in western countries? People there usually make shopping list first and then they go shopping. Most people like to go to the supermarkets because they can get almost everything in one supermarket. For example，many styles of clothes，food，spots things. And the things in supermarkets are cheaper. When they get into the supermarket，they carry a basket. Then they buy things and put them in the basket. After getting everything they want，they pay the money. Most people go to the supermarket once a week.。

高中英语推荐课外阅读文章10篇A lifetime friendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy1 and the trustfulness of collaboration and induration. It lasted 50 years. It included pleasure and utility but over and above them, there were shared purpose, a common end and an enduring goodness on both sides. Four and a half months before he died, when he was ailing, debt-ridden, and worried about his impoverished family, Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison's reply remind us that friends are friends until death. They also remind us that sometimes a friendship has a bearing on things larger than the friendship itself, for has there ever been a friendship of greater public consequence than this one?"The friendship which has subsisted between us now half a century, the harmony of our po1itical principles and pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period. If ever the earth has beheld6 a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never known reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted. To myself you have been a pillar of support throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I should leave with you my last affections."A week later Madison replied-"You cannot look back to the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a source of pleasure to you, what aren’t they not to be to me? We cannot be deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with Which we discharge the trust committed to us and I indulge a confidence that sufficient evidence will find in its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld9 whilst we are here. "推荐词汇：1. intimacy n. 熟悉；亲近2. collaboration n. 合作3. impoverished adj. 穷困的；无力的4. beheld v. 注视着（原形为behold）5. devoted adj. 忠诚的；献身的6. withheld v. 克制；隐瞒（原形是withhold）God Had to Be FairWe always knew our daughter Kendall was going be a performer of some sort. She entertained people in our small town by putting on shows on our front porch when she was only three or four. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and beautiful, she sang like a little angel and mesmerized everyone.When Kendall was five, we began to notice that she was blinking a lot and clearing her throat frequently. We had her tested for allergies, but the doctor said she wasn't allergic to anything at all. After the problem worsened, we took her to our local children's hospital where she was diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome.It was pretty devastating because other children constantly made fun of her, and sadly, even a teacher teased her. When the tics were especially bad, Kendall had to wear a neck brace. She only had one or two friends, but that was okay because they were -- and continue to be -- real, the kind who stick by her, no matter what. Through all this, Kendall continued to sing and entertain. Remarkably, her tics disappeared when she sang.We took our daughter from doctor to doctor, but all they did was give her medication that just made it worse, so we decided to go the natural route. Through chiropractic therapy, changes in her diet, and other natural treatments, the tics gradually lessened.In 2005 when Kendall was sixteen, we thought she was pretty much out of the woods -- or at least heading in that direction. However, as if Tourette's Syndrome wasn't enough for a beautiful young girl to deal with, a freak accident happened.At a birthday party, Kendall hopped on a friend for a piggyback ride. He bent lower than she expected, and she jumped higher than he expected. Kendall flew over his back and landed on the cement floor -- on her neck. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital where she spent the next week, paralyzed from the neck down. Ironically, her biggest concern wasn't whether she would walk again, but whether she would be able to audition for American Idol.Doctors said Kendall had central cord syndrome. The pain was excruciating and required morphine tocontrol it. Sometimes it was so unbearable she had to bite down on a toothbrush to take her mind off it. As the days dragged on, feeling returned to her left side, but she was still paralyzed on the right. We didn't know for sure how much of her movement would ever come back.I believe Kendall wanted the American Idol audition so much that she willed herself to move again. One of her friends brought a microphone to the hospital and put it on her bed. Every day, Kendall tried hard to pick it up with her right hand. It was more important for her to pick up that mic than a spoon or fork.Sometimes we all cried because of the pain we witnessed. But on the day Kendall walked into the stadium to audition for American Idol -- a mere three months after her accident -- we cried tears of joy. And our tears turned into shouts when she was given a golden ticket to Hollywood.As a parent, you always think your child is the best ever -- that's just what parents do. But after seeing Kendall perform, I know she's one of the best, even though she didn't make it into the Top 24.Kendall is eighteen now, living every day to its fullest. She's recorded a CD with some of John Mellencamp's band members. She's also on CMT's Music City Madness for an original song and video, and is having some good success. I'm absolutely sure she's going to make it big some day. Kendall just puts it all in God's hands.When she was a little girl trying hard to be strong, she looked up at me, her big eyes brimming with tears, and asked me why she had to have Tourette's Syndrome. My heart ached to make the world right for mychild. But I looked right back at her and told her the truth as I see it."Kendall, God gave you a pure heart, an angelic voice, a strong mind, and a beautiful presence. With all of that, he had to make it fair for everyone else."推荐词汇：1. mesmerize v. 使……着迷2. allergy n. 过敏3. allergic adj. 过敏的（用法：be allergic to 对……过敏）4. devastating adj. 毁灭性的；令人震惊的5. brace n. 支架；括号v. 撑住6. remarkable adj. 不同寻常的7. lessened adj. 减少的8. hop v.跳9. idol n.偶像；红人10. mere adj. 仅仅的The Doll and the White RoseI hurried into the local department store to grab some last minute Christmas gifts. I looked at all the people and grumbled to myself. I would be in here forever and I just had so much to do. Christmas was beginning to become such a drag. I kind of wished that I could just sleep through Christmas. But I hurried the best I could through all the people to the toy department. Once again I kind of mumbled to myself at the prices ofall these toys, and wondered if the grandkids would even play whit4 them. I found myself in the doll aisle5. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little boy about 5 holding a lovely doll.He kept touching6 her hair and he held her so gently. I could not seem to help myself. I just kept looking over at the little boy and wondered who the doll was for. I watched him turn to a woman and he called his aunt by name and said, "Are you sure I don't have enough money?" She replied a bit impatiently, "You know that you don't have enough money for it." The aunt told the little boy not to go anywhere that she had to go and get some other things and would be back in a few minutes. And then she left the aisle. The boy continued to hold the doll.After a bit I asked the boy who the doll was for. He said, "It is the doll my sister wanted so badly for Christmas. She just knew that Santa would bring it. "I told him that maybe Santa was going to bring it. He said, "No, Santa can't go where my sister is.... I have to give the doll to my Mama to take to her. "I asked him where his sister was. He looked at me with the saddest eyes and said, "She was gone to be with Jesus. My Daddy says that Mamma is going to have to go be with her."My heart nearly stopped beating. Then the boy looked at me again and said, "I told my Daddy to tell my Mama not to go yet. I told him to tell her to wait till I got back from the store." Then he asked me if I wanted to see his picture. I told him I'd love to. He pulled out some picture he'd had taken at the front of the store. He said, "I want my Mama to take this with her so the doesn't ever forget me. I love my Mama so very much and I wish she did not have to leave me. But Daddy says she will need to be with my sister."I saw that the little boy had lowered his head and had grown so quiet. While he was not looking I reached into my purse and pulled out a handful of bills. I asked the little boy, "Shall we count that money one more time?" He grew excited and said, "Yes, I just know it has to be enough." So I slipped my money in with his and we began to count it. Of course it was plenty for the doll. He softly said, "Thank you Jesus for giving me enough money." Then the boy said, "I just asked Jesus to give me enough money to buy this doll so Mama can take it with her to give my sister. And he heard my prayer. I wanted to ask him give for enough to buy my Mama a white rose, but I didn't ask him, but he gave me enough to buy the doll and a rose for my Mama. She loves white rose so much. "In a few minutes the aunt came back and I wheeled my cart away.I could not keep from thinking about the little boy as I finished my shopping in a totally different spirit than when I had started. And I kept remembering a story I had seen in the newspaper several days earlier about a drunk driver hitting a car and killing a little girl and the Mother was in serious condition. The family was deciding on whether to remove the life support. Now surely this little boy did not belong with that story.Two days later I read in the paper where the family had disconnected the life support and the young woman had died. I could not forget the little boy and just kept wondering if the two were somehow connected. Later that day, I could not help myself and I went out and bought some white roses and took them to the funeral home where the young woman was. And there she was holding a lovely white rose, the beautiful doll, and the picture of the little boy in the store. I left there in tears, their life changed forever. The love that little boy had for his little sister and his mother was overwhelming. And in a split second a drunk driver had ripped the life of that little boy to pieces.推荐词汇1. grab v.抓住；理解2. grumble v. 抱怨；嘟囔3. mumble v.嘟囔；含糊的说4. whit n.一点；丝毫5. touching adj.令人感动的6. split v 劈开；adj.分开的7. rip v. 撕开8. ripped adj. 喝醉的；吸毒的（美国俚语）A Plate of PeasMy grandfather died when I was a small boy, and my grandmother started staying with us for about six months every year. She lived in a room that doubled as my father's office, which we referred to as "the back room." She carried with her a powerful aroma. I don't know what kind of perfume she used, but it was the double-barreled, ninety-proof, knockdown, render-the-victim-unconscious, moose-killing variety. She kept it in a huge atomizer and applied it frequently and liberally. It was almost impossible to go into her room and remain breathing for any length of time. When she would leave the house to go spend six months with my Aunt Lillian, my mother and sisters would throw open all the windows, strip the bed, and take out the curtains and rugs. Then they would spend several days washing and airing things out, trying frantically to make the pungent odor go away.This, then, was my grandmother at the time of the infamous pea incident.It took place at the Biltmore Hotel, which, to my eight-year-old mind, was just about the fancies place to eat in all of Providence. My grandmother, my mother, and I were having lunch after a morning spent shopping.I grandly ordered a salisbury steak, confident in the knowledge that beneath that fancy name was a good old hamburger with gravy. When brought to the table, it was accompanied by a plate of peas. I do not like peas now. I did not like peas then. I have always hated peas. It is a complete mystery to me why anyone would voluntarily eat peas. I did not eat them at home. I did not eat them at restaurants. And I certainly was not about to eat them now. "Eat your peas," my grandmother said."Mother," said my mother in her warning voice. "He doesn't like peas. Leave him alone."My grandmother did not reply, but there was a glint in her eye and a grim set to her jaw that signaled she was not going to be thwarted. She leaned in my direction, looked me in the eye, and uttered the fateful words that changed my life: "I'll pay you five dollars if you eat those peas."I had absolutely no idea of the impending doom. I only knew that five dollars was an enormous, nearly unimaginable amount of money, and as awful as peas were, only one plate of them stood between me and the possession of that five dollars. I began to force the wretched things down my throat.My mother was livid. My grandmother had that self-satisfied look of someone who has thrown down an unbeatable trump card. "I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can't stop me." My mother glared at her mother. She glared at me. No one can glare like my mother. If there were a glaring Olympics, she wouldundoubtedly win the gold medal.I, of course, kept shoving peas down my throat. The glares made me nervous, and every single pea made me want to throw up, but the magical image of that five dollars floated before me, and I finally gagged down every last one of them. My grandmother handed me the five dollars with a flourish. My mother continued to glare in silence. And the episode ended. Or so I thought.My grandmother left for Aunt Lillian's a few weeks later. That night, at dinner, my mother served two of my all-time favorite foods, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Along with them came a big, steaming bowl of peas. She offered me some peas, and I, in the very last moments of my innocent youth, declined. My mother fixed me with a cold eye as she heaped a huge pile of peas onto my plate. Then came the words that were to haunt me for years."You ate them for money," she said. "You can eat them for love."Oh, despair! Oh, devastation! Now, too late, came the dawning realization that I had unwittingly damned myself to a hell from which there was no escape."You ate them for money. You can eat them for love."What possible argument could I muster against that? There was none. Did I eat the peas? You bet I did. I ate them that day and every other time they were served thereafter. The five dollars were quickly spent. Mygrandmother passed away a few years later. But the legacy of the peas lived on, as it lives on to this day. If I so much as curl my lip when they are served (because, after all, I still hate the horrid little things), my mother repeats the dreaded words one more time: "You ate them for money," she says. "You can eat them for love."推荐词汇1. aroma n.香气2. apply v.运用；申请3. frantically adv.坦诚地4. pungent adj. 刺激性的；刺鼻的5. infamous adj.声名狼藉的6. providence n. 深谋远虑；节俭7. jaw n.下巴8. impending adj. 即将到来的9. doom n 厄运v.注定要发生的An Angel Among UsI woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important.My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered forfree.Today I can fell sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive.Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships.Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored because the Lord has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul.Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor6 who gets to do the shaping.What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!推荐词汇1. fulfill v. 实现；履行2. lament n.悲哀；v.哀悼3. embark v.上船；开始做4. murmur v./n. 低声说；耳语5. sculptor n. 雕塑家11 Benefits to be Single1. SINGLE PEOPLE EXERCISE MORE…If you're single, there's a good chance you're hitting the gym more often than your married peers: A 2011 study found that men and women who have never been married exercised more than people in any other marital1 category (including currently married men and women, as well as divorcees and widowers).2. …AND MAINTAIN A HEALTHIER WEIGHT.You're also more likely to maintain a healthy weight. Multiple studies have found that men and women tend to pack on the pounds after they get married. One study found that married men are more likely to be overweight than their single peers, while another found that women who lost weight in preparation for their weddings had a tendency to gain weight in the six months following the ceremony.3. THEY SLEEP BETTER.It should come as little surprise that sharing a bed with another human being can affect how much sleep you get. After all, having someone tossing and turning, snoring, and talking in their sleep beside you can affect even the deepest sleepers. Being single cuts down on nighttime disruptions and can help you get amore peaceful night's sleep.4. THEY DO LESS HOUSEWORK.If you hate doing chores, single life might be right for you. A 2008 study found that single men and women spend fewer hours a week doing basic housework than their married counterparts.5. THEY'RE CLOSER TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY.Single people are the glue that keeps families together. According to one study, single siblings are more likely to keep in touch with, and reach out to, their siblings than those who are married. Another study found that single people also spend more time with friends than those in long-term relationships.6. THEY HAVE LESS DEBT.Being single doesn't just benefit your waistline and social life: It also benefits your wallet. Researchers have found that married people have more credit card debt than single people, and people who are married with children have the most debt of all.7. THEY'RE LESS STRESSED.Staying single can help you prevent certain kinds of stress and depression. One 2014 study found that marital stress may make couples more prone to depression, while couples who experience severe, ongoing5 marital stress were less able to enjoy positive experiences.8. THEY'RE LESS LIKELY TO GET DIVORCED DOWN THE ROAD.Staying single now can benefit your romantic relationships in the future. In general, people who wait longer to get married have lower rates of divorce.9. THEY CAN AVOID CONFLICTS.For people who truly hate conflicts, staying single can have real psychological benefits. According to a 2015 study, people who are conflict-averse (those for whom relationship fights and arguments can cause severe stress) may experience less anxiety when they're single.10. THERE ARE SURPRISING HEALTH BENEFITS TO SINGLEDOM.A wide range of studies have looked at the impact marriage and singledom can have on health. While being single isn't necessarily healthier across the board, there are plenty of situations where being single seems to be beneficial. Single men, for instance, were found to experience less heart disease, while single women are less likely to take sick days and visited the doctor less frequently than married women. Being single can even help your chances of keeping off weight after surgery: One study found that unmarried men and women were 2.7 times more likely to keep to diet and exercise goals after weight loss surgery.11. ALONE TIME IS GOOD FOR YOU.Being alone doesn't necessarily mean being lonely. Spending time on your own gives you time to clear your mind, identify your own goals and priorities, and participate in activities that interest you. Research has even found that a bit of alone time can help us become more empathetic, foster creativity, and even improve our relationships.推荐词汇1. marital adj. 婚姻的；夫妻的2. sleepers n. 卧铺（经常用复数）3. siblings n. 兄弟姐妹（表亲或堂亲）4. prone adj. 有倾向的（用法为be prone to）5. ongoing adj. 持续的；进行中的Free to SoarOne windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and kept them in tow, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say," Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!" they soared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. "Free at last," it seemed to say. "Free to fly with the wind."Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. "Free at last", free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to lodge lifeless against the firstobstruction.How much like kites we sometimes are. The heaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.推荐词汇1. restriction n. 限制2. tangle v. 纠缠3. lodge n. 临时住宿；躲避n. 传达室；小旅馆4. obstruction n. 阻塞；障碍5. opposition n. 反对6. cumbersome adj. 笨重的；不便携带的7. tug v. 拖；拉n. 苦力8. ascend v.上升Mom's SmileIt's an old photograph with bad composition and lousy color. The edges are curled up and brown. But none of that matters. The photo is laced with poignant memories so vivid that when my gaze slides across it, tears prick at the backs of my eyes. I am immediately transported to a place where only good and beautiful images can be found, a place where life revolves around lazy afternoons spent on the beach. In this magical place mothers share secrets with daughters, and grandchildren glean immeasurable bits of wisdom from the cadence of the waves and the soft tones of the women they love.A mere moment of our lives, tucked neatly into a small rectangle and preserved forever - years before anything bad came calling.In the photo, the beach spreads out on either side, a fishing dock to the left, one of Calcite's great limestone boats far out on the horizon, and on the right, miles and miles of undisturbed beach. The photo is alive with children and women: mothers, sisters, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, grandchildren. The lone man in the photo is my father. His shadow stretches long and lean across the restless blue waters of Lake Huron. With immense patience, he casts his line, again and again. My toddler son, his blond curls bleached white, peers across the endless stretch of sand. Mesmerized by his grandfather, he jets down the wet beach as fast as his chubby legs can carry him. His sisters give chase.A million dancing whitecaps become myriad diamonds, straining to outshine one another. The glimmering trail sparkles on the vast and seemingly endless body of water that starts at my feet and disappears into the sky, where seagulls dip and swirl, calling to one another as an anxious mother calls to a wayward child.A chaise lounge dominates the photo. In it a woman - my mother - reclines. Mom is spread out in the chair like thick, sweet frosting on a cake. Languid, her arms raised above her head, her legs splayed, pant legs rolled up to expose a goodly length of pale skin. Her arms are bare, the undersides pasty in comparison to the tops. Her smile in repose is tender, sweet, unassuming, and peaceful.To my knowledge, Mom never owned a bathing suit. I don't recall ever seeing her step into the lake, and never before had she sunbathed17. That day, however, was different. It was as if all her cares had floated out to deep waters like the unattended beach ball had done just minutes before.We are a large family. When my siblings and I were young, Dad was the one who took us to the beach. He sat in the car and watched as we frolicked in the shallows. Mom stayed home to ensure we had a hot meal when we returned. Perhaps Mom was happy for the few moments of alone time at home in the kitchen, as was Dad, alone in the car.On this day, their grown children, with children of our own, treat them to dinner on the beach. Dad fishes off the dock, never swaying from his pleasantries. And, for once, Mom forgets about making dinner.It is a day of memories, a day never to be forgotten.My three children are in the photo, and Dad is in the background, as are two of my sisters and their children, but everyone who gazes at the poorly developed photo is drawn inexplicably to Mom's smile. In the photo, her face is raised up to the sky. To the sun or to our Creator, she alone knows. Her eyes are closed.I remember how warm it was that day and how she had squinted up at me, shielding her eyes with both hands."Are my legs getting red?" she'd asked.My eyes brim with unshed tears as I remember the feel of her skin on the palm of my hand. Hot. The scalding tears run down my face. How I wish I could touch her one more time."No, Mom," I replied. "But better put some sunscreen on before you get a burn." Reluctantly, she'd sat up, the peaceful smile disappearing, and rolled her pant legs down, again."Save it for the kids," she said, her eyes scanning the group of children splashing in and out of the water. The whisper of a smile touched her lips as she watched for a long, wistful moment. With a sigh, she rose from the chair and moved toward the car where the coolers awaited."Maybe we should get lunch going," she said as she opened the first cooler.Now it is my turn to smile. Mom was not ready to relinquish dinner duties, after all. On a whim, I turn my face heavenward and close my eyes. I draw a deep breath and search for the special place Mom found that afternoon. It comes to me easily. Without pomp or ceremony, there she is, smiling again. Tears squeeze from beneath my closed lids, and I fervently pray that anyone who might come upon me at this。

课外阅读英语短文带翻译英语阅读，是英语学习和英语教学中的一个重要环节，它是我们获取知识、外界信息，与外界交流的主要途径之一。

店铺整理了课外英语短文带翻译，欢迎阅读!课外英语短文带翻译篇一On Saturday, the weather is sunny, cloudless sky, a group of birds chattering in the trees, as if to we hear singing hit song. At this moment, I saw a little sparrows on our car.Father rushed the sparrow away, but the little sparrow or motionless parked in the car. Jumped up and down in a moment, my father caught the little sparrows, at this time, I carefully looked at the little sparrow, its feathers have not full long, also not too will fly, only walking up and down on the car. I said to my father: "dad, you don't catch! We should protect animals, not hurt them, this is wrong." Say that finish, I heard the tree sparrow kept calling, as if to say: "put a small sparrow, put it!" So my father gently sparrow on the branches, let the little sparrow in the nature of life freely. The sparrows on the tree one see we put the little sparrow, chattering again, as if to say to me: "you are such a good child to protect animals."If no animal nature, all things, there is no life, if there is no grass plants, herbivorous animals can't live forever. Start from today, to protect the animals, love life, do a little guardians of nature.全世界有794多种野生动物，其中有76科300余种濒临灭绝，还有很多已经灭绝了。

四年级英语课外阅读Story 1:I Don’t Want to Walk HomeTom is a very old man. After dinner, he likes walking in the street. And he goes to bed at seven o’clock.But tonight, a car stopped at his house. A policeman helps him get out. He tells Tom’s wife, “The old man couldn’t find his way in the street. He asked me to take him in the car.”After the policeman leaves there, his wife asks, “Tom, you go to the street every night. But tonight you can’t find the way, what’s the matter?”The old man smiles like a child and says, “I couldn’t find my way? I just didn’t want to walk home.”Story 2:Adding Feet to a SnakeOne day, Mr. Lion holds a party. Many animals come and drink a lot of wine. At last there is a pot of wine. Who can drink it? They think out an idea and decide to have a match-Draw a snake. If you finish first, you can get it.Soon Mr. Wolf finishes drawing. “Yeah, I’ve finished. I’m No.1,” he says. But he draws again and says, “Oh, let me add feet to my snake.” At the time, Mr. Gorilla also finishes. He takes away the pot of wine and drinks, and then he says, “That isn’t a snake. Snakes have no feet. I get the wine.”Story 3:Covering one’s Ears While Stealing a BellMr. Wang thinks he is clever, but he always does foolish things.One day he sees a beautif ul bell at the top of a door. “Oh! How nice! I will take it home.” He thinks, “What can I do?” After a while he has a “good” idea. “Aha! I have an idea now. I can plug my ears. Then I will not hear the ring when I take off the bell.”Then he does so. But as soon as he takes off the bell, the owner opens the door. “What are you doing?” the owner says angrily.Story 4:Adding Eyes to a DragonMr. Li is a good painter. One day he draws a beautiful dragon without eyes.Mr. Zhou looks at the picture and s ays, “The dragon has no eyes. It isn’t a good picture.”But Mr. Li smiles and says, “If I add eyes to the dragon, it will fly away.”Mr. Zhou shakes head and says, “You are boasting. I don’t believe you.”Mr. Li isn’t angry. He holds the paintbrush a nd adds eyes to the dragon. Woe! The dragon really fliesStory 5:How a Colt Crossed the RiverOne day, a colt took a bag of wheat to the mill. As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a cow grazing nearby. He asked, “Aunt Cow, could you tell me if I can cross the river?” The cow told him that he could and that the river was notvery deep, just knee high. The colt was crossing the river when a squirrel jumped down from a tree and stopped him. The squirrel shouted, “Colt, stop! You’ll drown! One of my friends drowned just yesterday in the river.” Not knowing what to do, the colt went home to consult his mum. He told his mum his experience on the way. His mother said, “My child, don’t always listen to others. You’d better go and try yourself. Then you’ll know what to do.” Later, at the river, the squirrel stopped the colt again. “Little horse, it’s too dangerous!” “No, I want to try myself,” answered the colt. Then he crossed the river carefully. You see, real knowledge comes from practice.Story 6:The Fisherman and His WifeOnce, there was a fisherman. He had an ugly wife. They were poor.One day, the fisherman caught a goldfish. But the goldfis h could talk, “Please let me go! I’ll reward you.”“Ok, my God?” cried the fisherman, “Don’t worry. I have no wish to eat a talking fish.” So he puts it into the water.The fisherman went home and told his wife about it. She became very angry. “How foolish you are!” she said, “Look at the hut. Go back to the sea and tell the fish to give me a cottage.”So the fisherman went down to the beach.“What’s the matter?” asked the fish.“My wife wants to cottage.” said the fisherman.“Don’t worry, she will have it.”So the fisherman’s wife had her cottage.But after a few days, she became tired of it. “Tell the fish to give me a palace.” she said. Then the fisherman went back to the beach again. And the fisherman’s wifehad her palace.But she soon got tried of it, too. “Ask the fish to be my servant, and I want to be a queen.”This time, the fish got angry. It said nothing and swam away.The fisherman waited and waited, but the goldfish didn’t come back. When he went home, he found his wife was back in their old hut.Story 7:The country mouse and the city mouseOnce there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years, the Country mouse saw the City mouse; he said, "Do come and see me at my house in the country." So the City mouse went. The City mouse said, "This food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city."The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried, "Run! Run! The cat is coming!" They ran away quickly and hid. After some time they came out. When they came out, the Country mouse said, "I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich and afraid."Story 8:One day, a little monkey is playing by the well. He looks in the well and shouts: “Oh! My god! The moon has fallen into the well!” An older monkeys runs over, takes a look, and says, “Oh, no! The moon is really in the water!” Then an old monkey comes over. He is very surprised, too and yells: “The moon is in the well.”A group of monkeys run over to the well. They look at the moon in the well and shout: “The moon did fall into the well! Come on! Let’ get it out!” Then, the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down, with his feet on the branch. And he pulls the next monkey’s feet with his hands. All the other monkeys follow his suit, and they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well. Just before they reach the moon, the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky, He yells excitedly “Don’t be so foolish! The moon is still in the sky!”Story 9:The lion and the foxThe lion once said that he was sick on his death bed. So he asked all the animalsto come and listen to his last wishes. The goat came to the lion’s cave. He stood there and listened for a long time. Then a sheep went in. Before she came out, a rabbit entered to hear the last wishes of the king of beasts. But soon the lion seemed to recover, and went to the mouth of his cave. He saw a fox waiting outside. "Why don’t you come in?" asked the lion to the fox. "I beg Your Majesty’s pardon," said the fox, "I have seen many animals enter your cave, but none of them come out. Till they come out again, I prefer to wait outside."Tom is seven. He goes to school every day. The school is near his home. So he goes there on foot and comes back home on time. But today he is late. His mother asks him,“Why are you late today?”“I was in the headmaster’s office.”“Why did you go to the headmaster’s office?”“Because my teacher asks us a questi on in class, and nobody could answer it, but me.”“It’s good to answer the questions.”“but the questions was ’Who put ink on my chair?’”。

英语课外英文阅读材料带中文翻译小学与初中看的英语阅读材料是不同的，先不说其它，就说难度，很明显的，在初中时期，我们选择的英语阅读材料要比小学时期要难得多。

今天小编给大家带来英语课外英文阅读材料，希望大家喜欢并且能够有所收获。

英语课外英文阅读材料(一)眼睛会说话Much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with oureyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus youmay look at stranger, but not too long. And if he issensing that he is being stared at, he may feeluncomfortable.The same in daily life. If you are looked at for morethan necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is anything wrong withyou. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other’s stare with you that way. Eyes dospeak, right?Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are differentwhen it comes to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attracther attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speakerwill only look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener does payattention to what the former is speaking, As for the listener, he will,to a certain extent,lookcontinously at the speaker to tell him that he is attentive.If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking, as if he tries to dominate you, you willfeel disconcerted. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim, sincehe believes in the false idea that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication. Quite the contrary.In fact, continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each othertenderly for a long time, to show affection that words cannot express.Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and thespecific situation.我们的眼睛能准确地传达一些信息，所以人们常说，眼睛会说话。

Chapter 1: Who Pours Ink on My Chair?Donny is a seven year old boy. He goes to school every day. The school is near his home. So he goes there on foot and comes back home on time. But today, he is late. His mother asks him, “Why do you go to the headmaster’s office?”“Because the teacher asks us a question in class and nobody can answer it, but I can.”“It’s good to answer the teacher’s question.”“But the question is ‘Who pours ink on my chair?’”篇一：谁把墨水倒在我椅子了?唐尼是个7岁孩子，每天他都上学。

学校在他的家附近。

因为，他不行去上学并按时回家。

但是今天他回来迟了。

他的母亲问他：“你为什么去校长的办公室?”“因为老师在上课时老师问我们一个问题，没有人能回答他，而我能。

”“回答老师的问题是好事。

”“但那个问题‘谁把墨水倒在我的椅子上了?’”Chapter：Bananas for LunchA fat monkey likes eating bananas very much. He had bananas for lunch. He peeled one and ate one more and then, one more one banana, two bananas, three bananas, four…He ate and ate, but he wanted more, he peeled and he ate, peeled and he ate, five bananas, six bananas, seven bananas, eight …He peeled two more and continued two more. He ate whole bunch of bananas and can’t sleep.篇二：香蕉午餐香蕉午餐一只小胖猴子很喜欢吃香蕉。

适合课外阅读的英语美文英语语言如同汉语一样,是世界上最优美的语言之一,蕴含着浓厚的人文功能和美学价值。

阅读原汁原味的英语美文,可以使学生在品味绝妙佳句的同时,领悟人生哲理,激发审美情趣,提高英文的阅读能力和写作水平。

下面是店铺带来的适合课外阅读的英语美文，欢迎阅读!适合课外阅读的英语美文篇一Life's Little WondersMandyStill madly in love, we challenge ourselves to keep our relationship exciting, filled with surprises and most importantly the unexpected.I still remember this day like yesterday: It was my birthday and I worked all day. I came home expecting to go out for supper with friends and get to bed early, but, my God, was I in for a surprise...As I pulled up in the driveway I noticed a note tied to this great big teddy bear on the steps to my home. I smiled, and slowly started to open the note... it read "H".As I opened the door, there was my dog, waiting with another note, which read "A".I wondered what he was up to as I went up the stairs to the master bedroom. The bed was full of roses and there lay another note, this one read "W."I noticed on the night table a ring box and immediately started to tear it open... as I opened it, there was a little piece of paper with the letter "A" on it. I started to laugh and call out his name, still wondering what he was up to.I pulled myself together and went to the kitchen looking for him or more letters. As I do every day after work, I started tomake myself a cup of tea when I noticed him, waiting, as beautiful as ever, next to the front door, with the most amazing smile, the type of smile that makes you melt, and then I heard, "How was your day my love?"I walked towards him and smiled, and said, "Wonderful honey."He asked "Did you notice what was in the fridge?" I started to laugh and went to see. As I opened the fridge door, I saw the letters "II" on my birthday cake.I turned to him and asked, "Honey, what are you up to?"He replied, "Put all of those together and I'm going to be waiting for you outside." I stood there placing the letters together... H-A-W-A-I-I! By the time I realized what I was reading and got outside, my love was standing there with my suit cases and a beautiful flower neckless ready to go ... to wonderful Hawaii!I had a wonderful time in another one of life's little wonders.. 适合课外阅读的英语美文篇二Your Idea of a Good FriendIn kindergarten your idea of a good friend was the person who let you have the red crayon when all that was left was the ugly black one.In first grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to the bathroom with you and held your hand as you walked through the scary halls.In second grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you stand up to the class bully.In third grade your idea of a good friend was the person who shared their lunch with you when you forgot yours on the bus.In fourth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who was willing to switch square dancing partners in gym so youwouldn't have to be stuck do-si-do-ing with Nasty Nick or Smelly Susan.In fifth grade your idea of a friend was the person who saved a seat on the back of the bus for you.In sixth grade your idea of a friend was the person who went up to Nick or Susan, your new crush, and asked them to dance with you, so that if they said no you wouldn't have to be embarrassed.In seventh grade your idea of a friend was the person who let you copy the social studies homework from the night before that you had.In eighth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you pack up your stuffed animals and old baseball but didn't laugh at you when you finished and broke out into tears.In ninth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who would go to a party thrown by a senior so you wouldn't wind up being the only freshman there.In tenth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who changed their schedule so you would have someone to sit with at lunch.In eleventh grade your idea of a good friend was the person who gave you rides in their new car, convinced your parents that you shouldn't be grounded, consoled you when you broke up with Nick or Susan, and found you a date to the prom.In twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you pick out a college/university, assured you that you would get into that college/university, helped you deal with your parents who were having a hard time adjusting to the idea of letting you go...At graduation your idea of a good friend was the person who was crying on the inside but managed the biggest smile one could give as they congratulated you.The summer after twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you clean up the bottles from that party, helped you sneak out of the house when you just couldn't deal with your parents, assured you that now that you and Nick or you and Susan were back together, you could make it through anything, helped you pack up for university and just silently hugged you as you looked through blurry eyes at 18 years of memories you were leaving behind, and finally on those last days of childhood, went out of their way to give you reassurance that you would make it in college as well as you had these past 18 years, and most importantly sent you off to college knowing you were loved.Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the better of the two choices,holds your hand when you're scared, helps you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten,helps you put the past behind you but understands when you need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have confidence, goes out of their way to make time for you, helps you clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others, smiles for you when they are sad, helps you become a better person, and most importantly loves you!Pass on to those friends of the past, and those of the future...and those you have met along the way...[crying yet? oh there's more]Thank you for being a friend. No matter where we go or whowe become, never forget who helped us get there.There's never a wrong time to pick up a phone or send a message telling your friends how much you miss them or how much you love them.You know who you are, pass it on to someone who you want to remind.So send this to all your friends and maybe those who aren't but just watch and see who sends it back.If you love someone, tell them. Remember always to say what you mean.Never be afraid to express yourself. Take this opportunity to tell someone what they mean to you. Seize the day and have no regrets.Most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today and are what it's all about anyway. Pass this along to your friends.Let it make a difference in your day and theirs.The difference between expressing love and having regrets is that the regrets may stay around forever.适合课外阅读的英语美文篇三Kate's Friend, JosephKate CaldwellIn the middle of 5th grade I met Joseph. He transferred to Powell Elementary in the middle of the year. Joseph had only lived in The United States for one year. Some of the other kids made fun of him because of his accent. He also didn't know English very well, he had spoken Swahili all of his life. This caused him to stumble over words, sometimes not knowing how to say what he wanted to say. I became his friend and helped him find the word he wanted to use. We would carry on conversations,which would involve speaking very slowly and a lot of explaining. By the end of the year his English had improved 110%.Joseph was on the school track team with me. Even when his English got pretty good, he still didn't understand jokes. Joseph got a kick out of to tell knock-knock jokes that sometimes got very annoying. He would tell me things about where he had lived in Africa.Our friendship helped both of us understand other cultures better.。

初一英语课外阅读1、成功者的故事Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.Before he retired,Frank was the head of a very large business company,but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.At that time he had two helpers.In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!昨天下午弗兰克·霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。

课外阅读好处英语作文课外阅读是运用语言文字来获取信息,认识世界,发展思维,并获得审美体验的活动。

小编为大家整理的.课外阅读好处英语作文，喜欢的朋友不要错过了。

课外阅读好处英语作文1People have to spend so many years to go to school before they can be independent and earn money. We are told that reading books is good for us, but the fact is that we may find many bosses go to work in the early age and they don’t read many books. In fact, reading books doesn’t mean the person can make a lot of money, but reading books can broaden a person vision.Books provide us all kinds of knowledge, we can see the different sceneries, reading the books is like traveling to different places. What’s more, we can considerate things in different viewpoints. When we face difficulties, we will treat them in the peaceful way, we won’t lose our way, because we believe things will change one day, we have hope in our hearts. Reading books makes us have a good attitude towards life.课外阅读好处英语作文2With the development of technology, today, people has many fast ways to have access to the knowledge, such as click on the computer, what we want to know can immediately present in front of us. The fast reading way is very convenient, but students start to read outside the college less, because it takes time. Re adingoutside the college is necessary, we can’t ignore.First, reading outside the college can broaden our visional field. What we learn from class is limited, we need to read as more as possible to fulfill our mind. So when we do some researchpaper, we will have different ideas and provide some creativity. What’s more, such books are interesting, we will have fun outside the class.Second, reading outside the college can cultivate people’s reading behavior. We read in school because we are forced, we have teachers to look at us. Once we are out of school, no one’s watching us, we’ll leave the books behind easily. Books are profound and we can gain much knowledge, we need to read them all the time, the reading behavior should be cultivated.Readingis important to us, we should increase interest in reading outside the college.课外阅读好处英语作文3We all know that reading has a lot of benefits .First of all,from reading some kinds of extra.readings,we can horizon our outlook,we can know this world in a better way.Secondly,as for a student we can rich in knowledge from reading a large number of books ,such as history,geography,physical books.Thirdly,reading can cultivate the habit of thinking which makes us smarter.Reading has a great many of other advantages of course ,it is wise for us to develop the habit of reading.课外阅读好处英语作文4When I m free or in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. In no time, I ve put my heart into it so that I ll forget all the troubles. It s in this way that I ve formed the habit of reading in any time.Little boys as I was, I was interest in picture books and storybooks. I was struck by them. No sooner had I entered the middle school than I began to read novel, plays, and essays and so on. I found I could get much from them. Little by little I tookgreat interest in literature and last term I won the first prize in the composition contest among middle-school students in Zhe Jiang.Reading The Emperor s New Clothes , I had to let out a burst of laughter over his fool. The Little Match Girl couldn t keep me from crying for her misery. Robinson Crusoe took me into a strange world full of danger. And I was also deeply impressed by Helen Keller s patience and perseverance Besides these, books also tell me other thing -how to be a man and how to tell the difference between right and wrong. In a word, good books can make me know what I didn t before. So I think of a good book as my best friend.I ll never forget this famous saying, Good books are best friends who never turn their backs upon us.。

1.Different people spend their weekends in different ways. Some like to stay at home to read books or watch TV. Some like to go out with their families. As for（关于）a group of foreign and Chinese sports lovers in Guangzhou, they like to play a kind of ball game with their friends. And the name of the game may sound new to most of us. It’s floorball.（福乐球）Floorball is an indoor team sport. People use sticks and a ball to play the game on a court. Floorball started in America and is becoming more and more popular all over the world now. The sport came to Beijing, Shanghai and later some foreign people brought to Guangzhou to kill time for fun. People there set up the South China Taipan Club to play floorball together. Now there are over 40 members from different countries, such as Sweden, Japan, India, Iran, China and Mexico.2. In China, every book-lover must know Xinhua Bookstore, China’s largest chain bookstore. There are many branches all over China. Now its first branch in London opens. It is also the first Xinhua Bookstore in Europe.The store sells Chinese books and magazines, English books on China and other Chinese things such as chess and paintings. It can help the readers in the UK know more about China.The store is on Park Royal Road（皇家花园路）in the north of London. People can take the subway and get off at North Acton（阿克顿）station. Then take the Bus 440 to get off at Park Royal Road stop. Cross the road, and the store is on your right.3.Good afternoon, boys and girls. I have something to tell you. We’re going to do some cleaning after school this afternoon. It’s going to rain at night, so please don’t forgetto close the door and windows. It’s going to be very cold tomorrow morning. Please remember to put on more warm clothes. Mr. Wang isn’t here today. He’s ill in hospital. I hope you can go to see him. But you don’t need to buy anything for him. By the way, there’s lots of homework for you this evening. You must finish doing it and bring it to school tomorrow morning. So you’d better not watch TV. Now let’s begin our cleaning.4. Do you like travelling around the world and making friends？Y es? Then come to Shanghai in 2010. You can meet many people from all over the world and make friends with them. Why? Because the 2010 World Expo will be held in the city of Shanghai.Chinese people are doing many things in different ways to welcome it. About 1,000 young college students in Shanghai Jiao T ong University shape themselves into logo of EXPO 2010 Volunteer. That’s their way to show their love for the big event. The logo looks like the Chinese character “heart”. It also looks like the English letter “V”. The students hope it can tell the world that Chinese volunteers are getting ready to welcome all the people to Shanghai.4.World Car Free Day（世界无车日）is September 22. It started from France in 1998. Because of the air and noise pollution, some French young people wanted a day without cars. They called the idea “A day in the city without my car”and many people liked it very much. So on September 22, people in 35cities of France didn’t use their cars. They went to work or school by bike, bus or on foot. After that, September 22 became World Car Free Day. More and more cities in Europe, South America and Asia began to take part in the activity. Chengdu is the first Chinese city to join in it.5.What do you want to be when you grow up? Ask children this question, and we will get different answers. Some may say they want to be doctors and some want to be teachers. Some may say they want to be reporters, but the 18-year-old American boy Nick Jonas’dream is different from others’. He is one of the three members of the Jonas Brothers, a popular American boy band. The young singer has got a lot of fans all over the world now. But that’s not enough for him. He has a bigger dream—to be the President of the USAone day.Nick Jonas once took a trip to the White House. He said his trip was very cool and he wants to run for President. “I know it’s not an easy job. I will work hard at college first,” he said.。

比较好的英语阅读文章材料有的时候多看一些课外英语阅读，除了可以扩展我们的英语词汇量以外，还可以扩展我们的英语阅读范围。

这里与大家分享比较好的英语阅读文章，有时间我们不妨学习一下，看看自己能够做到何种程度。

比较好的英语阅读文章(一)America's sweetheartThere is an English saying that goes, "he who laughs last, laughs the hardest." High School Musical star and teen heartthrob (让人心动的男人) Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.As a young boy, Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and teased (取笑) because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron's basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime (两个加时赛), with three seconds left, he rebounded the ball and passed it —to the wrong team! They scored and his team lost the game.But history, as they say, is a thing of the past. Now at 21, Efron is one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People, graces (荣登) the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood's most influential magazine, and is traveling the world promoting the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman described Efron as "arguably the biggest teen star in America right now." Simply google "Zac Efron" and you get more than 14 million responses. Yes, it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.Efron was born and raised in California. He took school seriously. According to Efron, "he would flip out (发疯) if he got a B and not an A in school, and that he was a class clown." It washis father who encouraged him to act. He took part in school performances and with a local theater group. He also took singing lessons. He graduated high school in 2006 and was accepted at the University of Southern California to study film. But he deferred (延期) — why study movies when you can star in them.Now he has signed on to star in the romantic comedy Seventeen Again and to play in the remake of the hugely popular movie, Footloose. Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his role in High School Musical 3. Not bad for a 21-year-old. But Efron still remembers those bullies (欺人者)."You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire," Efron said. "Also, when you get made fun of, when people point out your weaknesses, it's an opportunity for you to rise above."Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now laugh all the way to the bank.比较好的英语阅读文章(二)Opening his eyes in AfricaKIDS in a Sudanese refugee (难民) camp stir up a cloud of dust as they kick (踢) around a football. NBA superstar Tracy McGrady watches from a distance before offering to buy the kids a grass pitch for $1,000.Perhaps he sees a Ronaldinho rising up out of the African soil. Or maybe he just wants to do something – anything – to give these children some hope. But he is told, politely, that grass is not what the kids need.This scene appears in 3 Point, a new documentary, which shows the Houston Rockets star coming face-to-face with the reality that life is more than sport.McGrady, 29, writes on his website that he traveled to Africa because he was tired of only reading about it in the news. "Who were the faces behind the statistics?" he said. "I needed to see it for myself."And he did. He stepped out of his mansion (别墅) and flew to a place torn to bits by war and famine (饥荒). He slept in a tent (帐篷). He dodged minefields (躲避雷区). He talked with people who have been tortured (折磨). And he swallowed his pride.But no one should blame McGrady for wanting to buy the kids a patch of grass. Sport gave him a chance, so perhaps he thought it would do the same for the refugees.McGrady was eyed* by NBA scouts as a teenager and he didn't bother going to college. Instead, he leaped right into the NBA. Since that move, basketball has given him a handsome* living, but one very far removed* from the lives of ordinary people. As McGrady would learn in Africa, most people see sport as just a break from life's difficulties. They don't mistake it for life itself.Only McGrady knows how this Africa trip changed him, but I'd bet that, at the very least, it has given him a new sense for what is truly meaningful.McGrady doesn't own an NBA championship ring. He hasn't risen to the heights of Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan. But, perhaps, now he knows he doesn't have to in order to truly make a difference in the world.。

高三英语课外阅读9篇1、Friends for life动物们也过节啦，瞧它多快乐DO you have a pet in your home? Did you remember to give it a big meal and lots of other treats on Saturday? If not, you've made a big mistake, because October 4 was World Animal Day, an official holiday for all animals acknowledged by the United Nations.Liu Hui, a senior high school student in Beijing, made sure her pekinese dog (哈巴狗) named Pipi had a very special time."There are many endangered (濒危) animals in the Amazon rain forests (亚玛逊雨林) and all over the world that that need protecting," Liu said. "But they all sound far away to me so I just let Pipi have a wonderful day."Pipi is my best friend. He is so clever that he understands every word I say to him. He is such a good listener; I can tell him all my secrets, without worrying that he will tell them to others."For Liu Hui, Pipi is just a friend. But for disabled people like Arthur, an American boy living in Beijing, a pet can be a pair of eyes or ears, or even a pair of legs.Arthur, 17, lost one of his legs in a car accident. His pet Maquis is a two-year-old German breed dog. Maquis pulls Arthur's wheelchair to any place he asks and guards him when he is outside of his home."Maquis is more than a friend - I love him," Arthur said. "I don't feel lonely or afraid if Maquis is around. If other boys try to bully me, he will scare them away."Animals are also useful in treating people with illness and disabilities. In the US, doctors use dogs and cats as listeners to encourage shy boys and girls to speak in public.A hundred years ago, an Italian priest called St. Francis started World Animal Day. TheUN sets aside the special day, not only to persuade people to protect endangered animals, but also to encourage them to show love for animals living in our society. World Animal Day is a wonderful chance for us to show we care about animals and their welfare.2、Caught in the Web?你想在这似是而非的网络世界里寻找什么？是期待友谊还是打发无聊？YOUR friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks (点击) away. Life has changed for millions of teenagers across the world who now make friends online. Whether you use chatrooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are part of a virtual community (虚拟社区)."I rarely talk with my parents or grandparents, but I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ," said Fox's Shadow, the online nickname (网名) used by a Senior 2 girl in Chna. "Eighty per cent of my classmates use QQ after school."QQ is the biggest messaging service in China. A record 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October, according to Tencent, the company which developed QQ.And Fox's Shadow might well have been one of them. "I log in on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel bored. I usually spend about 10 hours chatting online every week," she said. "But I rarely talk with strangers, especially boys or men."Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with strangers online. "You don't know who you're talking to. You should always be careful about who you trust online."Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have got to know someone very well. Fox's Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a comic fan like herself and they went to a comic show together.However, not all teenagers have not been so fortunate. At the beginning of this year, a 17-year-old girl in Liaoning Province was raped(强奸) after meeting a friend she had found on QQ. The criminals (罪犯) weren't caught until last month.A 16-year-old Beijing boy, known online as Bart Simon, dislikes QQ users. "I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking nonsense," he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. "I only chat online because I've got friends in Japan, the US and Singapore," he said. "I want to learn more about foreign cultures." But he spends little time chatting as he sees it as a waste of time andmoney."If you are really addicted to it, sometimes you just can't concentrate (集中精神) in class," he said. "And the friends in your real life are always more important than those so-called friends you meet online." HELPchatroom n. 聊天室log in: 登陆talk nonsense: 说废话addicted to: 沉迷于3、Crying in class冬日荧屏向你展现和着欢笑与泪水的高三生活LOVE, drugs, death and stolen exam papers —it's nothing like your high school but that's what life is like for students in the new TV series "You're smiling while I'm crying"(《你在微笑我却哭了》).Set at a high school in a beautiful coastal city, the 22-episode (集) drama, which can be seen at the end of the year, follows a popular and talented student called Shen Xiao. The school is encouraging weaker students not to take the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), so its university enrolment rate (升学率) will improve. All Senior 3 students have to take a special exam to decide who will be allowed to sit the NCEE.Shen believes it is unfair to stop someone choosing whether to take an exam that could change their life. So when some Senior 3 boys steal a copy of the paper, she agrees to work out the answers, allowing everyone to pass.However, the students do so well in the exam, the teachers realize they have cheated and try to find out who was responsible. Under cruel pressure, a shy boy kills himself.Feeling guilty (内疚) as well as angry, Shen fights against her parents and teachers. She gives up the NCEE, falls in love with a college student and accidentally gets involved in drug dealing. So where does Shen go? Who is smiling while she is crying? And will she get to have the last laugh?Shen is played by 24-year-old Gao Yuanyuan, who starred in "Spicy Love Soup" (《爱情麻辣烫》) in 1999. Her sweet looks and pure image have since appeared in many films, TV series and advertisements."I didn't want to play teenager again, but the story was too good to turn down," she said.Students across the country can't wait to see the drama. "It's such a long time since I read an interesting novel or watched a good TV series about school life," said Senior 2 student Xiao Fei. "I hope it shows me what the last year of high school is really like," she said.4、Head above water?不要小看全球变暖，因为一不留神你家门口可能就变成了一片汪洋！TUVALU, a tiny country in the Pacific Ocean, has asked for help as it fears it will be swallowed up by the sea.Storms and huge waves are a constant threat and none of Tuvalu's nine little islands is more than five metres above sea level. Salt water is already entering the country's drinking water supply, as well as damaging plants that produce fruit and vegetable. Without urgent help, the country's days are numbered.But Tuvalu is not the first place to face sinking into the sea. Venice, a historic city in Italy best known for its canals, has sunk about 24cm over the past 100 years. Experts say that it will have sunk another20-50cm by 2050. A century ago, St. Mark's Square, the lowest point in the city, flooded about nine times a year. Nowadays, it happens more than 100 times.While Venice is slowly sinking into the mud on which it stands, Tuvalu's rising sea level is caused by global warming.The average global temperature has increased by almost 0.5 centigrade degree over the past century; scientists expect it to rise by an extra 1-3 degrees over the next 100 years.Warmer weather makes glaciers (冰川) melt, adding more water to the ocean. The warmer temperatures also make water expand, so it takes up more space, causing the sea level to rise. The sea level has risen about 10-25cm in the last 100 years.The main cause of global warming is human pollution. Through burning coal, oil and gas, people have been increasing the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as CO2. This adds to the power of the greenhouse effect, making the planet even warmer . Many scientists believe that, if the warming is not stopped, there will be huge climate changes. The sea level could rise by one metre this century. Should this come true, millions of homes will beswallowed up by the sea and the world will be flooded with "climate refugees " looking for somewhere to live.5、New cards will keep your detailssafe世界各国都使用身份证吗?THE plastic identification (ID,身份证) cards carried by all Chinese citizens over 16 are to be replaced with electronic cards from next year .The new cards, which most people will have by 2005, contain a microchip (微芯片) on which personal information is stored. This can be checked against databases (资料库) kept by the government."The information will be locked into the card so that people won't be able HELP plant n. 种植园 urgent adj. 紧急的 canal n. 运河 refugee n. 难民to use false identities," said Ren Tianbu, a security official in Shenyang.China's present plastic identity cards were introduced 17 years ago, and a similar system is used by many other countries. However, the information shown on a card differs from nation to nation. Most ID cards show the holder's name, sex, date of birth and photograph, as well as the card's expiry (失效) date and number.Germany, France and Spain all use ID cards, but there are some developed nations who dislike the idea. The US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Britain are among those with no national ID card. However, some of the countries have ID cards for particular uses. For example, Australia and the United States use a driving licence (驾照) to identify people.Identity cards are introduced for a variety of reasons. Race, politics and religion were often at the heart of older ID systems. In recent years, though, ID cards have been linked to national information databases, which form the basis of how a government manages a country.The US, Britain and some other countries are considering a national ID system as a way of preventing possible terrorist attacks.However, such plans have been met with fierce resistance by those who believe identity cards work against human rights and individual privacy (个人隐私)."ID cards make us suspects (可疑人员), not citizens," said UK human rights group Liberty.6、Fighting in the family 为什么我有一个家，却还觉得无家可归呢？"WHERE is your home, boy?" a little beggar was once asked."I don't have home because I don't have a family," he answered.I feel great sympathy (同情) for him because several years ago, I also felt homeless.I'm a boy from an ordinary family which used to be happy. My parents loved me very much when I was a small child. They spent a lot of time playing with me even though they were busy. I thought I had the happiest family in the world.However, a big change happened when I grew older: my parents began to fight. Every three or four days, they would fight, sometimes even hitting each other with pieces of furniture. I was so frightened I used to hide behind the door or under the bed and cry.Every time I had to wait for at least an hour before they stopped. Then my father would walk out in anger, leaving mother crying alone. Scars covered her body from head to foot. Looking at the black and blue marks on her face, I could do nothing but cry with her. So a happy family became a bad one and I became a quiet and unhappy boy.Then, I went to the junior middle school and had to live in the school. Although I was a long way from home, I never stopped worrying about my family, particularly my mother as she cannot protect herself in a fight. I always stayed up at night, staring at the stars, hoping a miracle would happen and my family could be happy again.One cold winter day, I got a chance to go home after six months away at school.The road was covered in snow but I missed my family so much that I rode my bike as fast as possible. However, I started to worry that my parents had been fighting and all of a sudden I lost my balance. My bikewas hit by a car . I felt a huge pain in my right leg and then fainted.When I woke up I was in hospital and my parents were sitting beside the bed. To my sadness, I saw new scars on mother's face.I looked at her , tears filling my eyes, and shouted out the words that had been hidden in my heart for years."When will you stop? Have you ever thought about my feelings? No! You just care about yourselves. This accident wouldn't have happened but for your endless fighting!" I began crying loudly. "You want to know about my horrible nightmares (噩梦)? I dreamed that mum was beaten up with scars and blood all over her body. I felt scared! I want nothing but happiness. Please give me a happy family!"My parents and the nurses were all stunned (震惊的) but they had tears in their eyes. And what happened next? I recovered and myparents promised never to fight again. So far , they have kept their promise.7、Love is a good wash这道家庭作业有点“怪”：给父母洗脚，让他们感受来自儿女深深的爱。

课外阅读After-class Reading初中英语作文After going to the middle school, I have less time to play outside the school, because I always have a lot of homework to do. Though my leisure time is shorter, I still keep on after-class reading. Many years ago, my Chinese teacher introduced many classic books to us, I bought them and read them all, I fell in love with reading these books, I would be immerged in the stories. Reading these books helps me a lot, I have improved my writing skill. When I saw the topics, my mind will come out a lot of ideas, I have things to enrich my paper. What’s more, I also broaden my vision.进入中学后,我没有多少时间在外面玩,因为我总是有很多作业要做。

虽然我的休闲时间比较短,我仍然坚持课外阅读。

许多年前,我的语文老师给我介绍了许多经典书籍，我买了这些书,并且去阅读,我也爱上了读这些书,我会沉浸在其中。

读这些书可以帮助我很多,我提高了写作技巧。

当我看到话题时,我的脑海里会涌现出来很多的想法,我有东西去充实我的论文。

更重要的是,我也开阔视野。

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英语课外阅读短文带翻译5篇1.英语课外阅读短文带翻译篇一I like to read books, because a good book, containsa wealth of knowledge and good feelings. Reading a good book is across time and space, dialogue with wisdom and noble people.Reading makes me rich knowledge, purify the soul. Book is the ocean of knowledge, it is gradually broadened my horizons, improve my ability. I have benefited a lot from reading this is self-evident.Reading is a golden key for me open the door to knowledge, reading is like the sun light up bright future for me.The book, not dull, inflexible. But like a person, lively and interesting. A good book is the best teacher, is a friend, is a partner. World writer gorky once said: “books are the ladder of human progress.”Because of this, I like reading, it makes my writingimprove a lot, gave me a lot of harvest.Love books! It will make you have a lot of harvest.我喜欢读书，因为一本好书，蕴含着丰富的知识和美好的情感。

高中年级英语课外阅读文章材料高中，说长也长说短也短，在这个阶段，我们可以吸收很多知识，甚至是英语课外阅读知识也不例外。

这里与大家分享，有时间我们不妨学习一下高中年级英语课外阅读文章，看看自己能够做到何种程度。

高中年级英语课外阅读文章(一)Do you want a cupcake?YOUR mom might cook a bowl of noodles for you on your birthday. But in the US, a mom makes a cupcake (杯形蛋糕) for her children on their birthday.Cupcakes are small, round cakes topped with frosting (糖霜). It has been an American tradition that moms bring cupcakes to the classroom to celebrate th eir child’s birthday.But recently some doctors have called for this to be banned (禁止). They believe cupcakes contribute to child obesity (肥胖).Despite their good intentions, however, some people believe that experts are interfering (妨癨-) with American culture. The cupcake is seen as American as apple pie — only prettier.According to Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University, the cupcake is the most democratic (民主的) of desserts. As they are small enough for one person, you don’t have to share your cupcake with anyone —it’s all yours. They are also all the same size, so there can’t be any cries of “she got the bigger piece!”Each bite can taste different depending on how much icing you have. It is a lesson in self-determination (自主). Some people eat only a little of the frosting every time, others have it all in just one bite.In recent years, eating a cupcake has become as trendy as having a cup of Starbucks coffee.Democratic presidential candidate (候选人) Hillary Clinton jokingly promised on a talk show that if she was elected president, she would give everyone a cupcake on her birthday.Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief (主编) of Gourmet magazine, explains that the rise of the cupcake is very much about going back to American national identity (认同感) in food, which is all about comfort. “People want to think about when they and their country were innocent (纯真的),” she said.高中年级英语课外阅读文章(二)Mourinho: I'm still the special oneUPON landing in the English Premier League (英超) three years ago, Jose Mourinho declared (宣称) he was the special one. “Please don’t call me arrogant (傲慢的), but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.”He was definitely different from other managers. Never before had a football manager entertained the world both on and off the pitch (球场). The 44-year-old Portuguese manager is arrogant, witty and brilliant, but never dull.Two league titles in two seasons suggested he was indeed special. Under Mourinho, Chelsea never lost a Premier League match at their home stadium, Stamford Bridge.But despite these achievements, Mourinho’s relationship with the club’s owner Roman Abramovich become fractured (破裂) beyond repair.Abramovich decided to buy players like Andri Shevchenko and Michael Ballack. But Mourinho did not always play them.Abramovich wanted Chelsea to play an aggressive, attacking style of football, but Mourinho also refused. When Mourinho found his authority was being weakened, he walked away.Off the pitch, Mourinho was arrested (逮捕) after an angryquarrel with police officers about his dog. But he was also the manager who would run off from an interview to open the door for an elderly woman who was struggling with it.Mourinho was born into a family with football tradition. Despite an academic record that could have opened many other doors, he never considered a career outside of football.When it became clear he didn’t have enough talent to be a great player, he began working towards a career in coaching. And he has built a great one.“I think I’m still special. I achieved good things and it was a fantastic period in my career. I’ll try to forget the bad things and remember the good ones,” he said.。

初中英语课外阅读短文篇一：Going through the Customs is a tiresome business. The strangest thing about it is that really honest people are often made to feel guilty. The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase. When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.'Have you anything to declare?' he asked, looking me in the eye.'No,' I answered confidently.'Would you mind unlocking this suitcase please ?''Not at all,' I answered.The Officer went through the case with great care. All thethings I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful mess. I felt sure I would never be able to close the case again. Suddenly, I saw the Officer's face light up. He had spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case and he pounced on it with delight.'Perfume, eh?' he asked sarcastically. 'You should have declared that.' Perfume is not exempt from import duty.''But it isn't perfume,' I said.' It's hair-oil.' Then I added with a smile,' It's a strange mixture I make myself.' As I expected, he did not believe me.'Try it!' I said encouragingly.The Officer unscrewed the cap and put the bottle to his nostrils. He was greeted by an unpleasant smell which convinced him that I was telling the truth. A few minutes later, I was able to hurry away with precious chalk-marks on my baggage.现在的海关官员往往相当宽容。

课外阅读的英语作文I love reading books in my free time. It's a great way to relax and escape from the real world. I enjoy getting lost in a good story and immersing myself in the lives of the characters. Reading also helps to improve my vocabulary and language skills, which is an added bonus.One of my favorite genres to read is science fiction. I love the way these books transport me to different worlds and make me think about the future. The imaginative concepts and futuristic technology always keep me hooked from start to finish. It's like taking a journey to a whole new universe without leaving the comfort of my own home.In addition to science fiction, I also enjoy reading biographies and memoirs. There's something fascinating about delving into the lives of real people and learning about their experiences. It's inspiring to see how others have overcome challenges and achieved their goals. These stories often leave me feeling motivated and empowered topursue my own dreams.I believe that reading is not just a hobby, but a valuable learning experience. It broadens my perspective and allows me to see the world from different angles. Whether I'm reading for pleasure or knowledge, I always come away with something new. It's a habit that I hope to continue for the rest of my life.。

关于课外阅读英语作文I love reading books in my free time. It's a great way to relax and escape from the stress of daily life. I usually read a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, and even poetry. Reading helps me improve my vocabulary and language skills, and it also broadens my knowledge about different cultures and perspectives.One of my favorite books is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. It's a classic novel that explores important themes such as racism, justice, and morality. The characters are well-developed, and the story is both heartwarming and thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys literary fiction.In addition to novels, I also enjoy reading biographies and memoirs. Learning about the lives of influential people is inspiring and eye-opening. One of the most memorable biographies I've read is "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson.It provides a fascinating insight into the life of thevisionary co-founder of Apple Inc. His unconventional thinking and relentless pursuit of excellence have left a lasting impact on the world.I believe that reading is essential for personal growth and development. It allows us to explore new ideas, gain different perspectives, and empathize with others. Whether it's a gripping mystery novel or a thought-provoking essay, there's always something new to discover in the world of books. So, I encourage everyone to pick up a book and start reading!。

课外阅读高分英语作文Reading books outside of class is a great way to relax and escape from the stress of schoolwork. It allows me to immerse myself in different worlds and experience new adventures without ever leaving my room.I love getting lost in a good story and feeling a connection with the characters. It's like making new friends and going on exciting journeys with them. Reading also helps me improve my vocabulary and language skills, which is a bonus!One of the best things about reading is that it can inspire me and spark my creativity. Sometimes, a book can give me new ideas or perspectives that I never considered before. It's like a window into different cultures, time periods, and ways of thinking.When I read, I feel like I'm expanding my horizons and learning something new with every page I turn. It's a formof self-care for me, a way to unwind and recharge my mind after a long day of studying. Plus, it's a lot of fun!Overall, reading is a wonderful way to escape reality, learn something new, and simply enjoy the magic of storytelling. It's a habit that I will continue to cultivate for as long as I live.。