英语美文美句及翻译阅读

英语美文美句及翻译阅读

语阅读能力作为一项重要的外语技能在英语教学中备受重视。研究显示,焦虑是影响外语学习的一个重要因素,对英语阅读会产生重要的影响。下面是店铺带来的英语美文美句及翻译阅读，欢迎阅读!

英语美文美句及翻译阅读篇一

professional basketball player

Kobe Bryant first started turning heads on the basketball

court when he was in middle school. His talents dominated the

game so much that high schools from all over the Philadelphia

area watched him grow up. The almost six-foot tall seventh

grader definitely had the make-up and genes for the game, as

his dad was former NBA forward, Joe Bryant. Kobe developed his

basketball skills under the watchful eye of his father, helping his

mission to become a professional basketball player. He worked

daily on his game, watching video, playing in the playgrounds

and listening to his father.

When he entered high school at Lower Marion in

Philadelphia, Kobe was a highly touted recruit. He proved that he

had the skills and work ethic to be a star at the next level and the

scouts noticed this. Kobe didn't let anybody down either, as he

played on the varsity basketball team his freshman year. He

wouldn't immediately be a superstar, though. Rather it was the

countless hours of early morning workouts by himself in the

gymnasium that escalated Kobe's talents.

Kobe became a better player every year he played at Lower

Marion and soon enough, he had developed into one of the

premier talents at the high school level. He sold out the games

everywhere he played during his junior and senior years and he

didn't disappoint anyone. He once packed the school gym so much that it caused a traffic jam on the main highway just

outside the school.

He went on to finish his high school career as the all-time

leading point scorer in Pennsylvania history with a total of 2, 883

points. Kobe's highly decorated high school career made him the

13th overall choice by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA

draft.

英语美文美句及翻译阅读篇二

honoring mothers

So who came up with the idea of honoring mothers nation-wide on the second Sunday in May?

EARLY CELEBRATIONS Some historians claim that the

predecessor of the Mother's Day holiday was the ancient spring

festival dedicated to mother goddesses. In the ancient Greek

empire the spring festival honored Rhea, wife of Cronus and

mother of the gods and goddesses. In Rome the most significant

Mother's Day-like festival was dedicated to the worship of Cybele,

another mother goddess. Ceremonies in her honor began some

250 years before Christ was born. This Roman religious

celebration, known as Hilaria, lasted for three days - from March

15 to 18!

ENGLAND'S MOTHERING SUNDAY More like the modern

celebration of Mother's Day is England's "Mothering Sunday",

also called Mid-Lent Sunday, observed on the fourth Sunday in

Lent. Some say the ceremonies in honor of Cybele were adopted

by the early church to venerate the Mother of Christ, Mary.

Others believe the Mother Church was substituted for mother

goddess and custom began to dictate that a person visit the

church of his/her baptism on this day. People attended the

mother church of their parish, laden with offerings. Also in England in the 1600's, young men and women who

were apprentices or servants returned home on Mothering

Sunday, bringing to their mothers small gifts like trinkets or a

"mothering cake". Sometimes furmety was served - wheat grains

boiled in sweet milk, sugared and spiced.

In northern England and in Scotland, the preferred

refreshments were carlings - pancakes made of steeped pease

fried in butter, with pepper and salt. In fact, in some locations this

day was called Carling Sunday.

Another kind of mothering cake was the simnel cake, a very

rich fruit cake. The Lenten fast dictated that the simnel cake had

to keep until Easter. It was boiled in water, then baked, and was

often finished with an almond icing. Sometimes the crust was of

flour and water, colored with saffron.

INTEREST STARTS IN THE UNITED STATES Anna M. Jarvis

(1864-1948) is credited with originating our Mother's Day holiday.

She never married and was extremely attached to her mother,

Mrs. Anna Reese Jarvis. Mrs. Jarvis was a minister's daughter who

for 20 years taught Sunday School in the Andrews Methodist

Church of Grafton, West Virginia. Miss Jarvis graduated from the

Female Seminary in Wheeling, West Virginia, and taught in

Grafton before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the

rest of her family.

Anna Reese Jarvis died in Philadelphia in May of 1905. Still

unmarried and left alone with her blind sister Elsinore, Anna

missed her mother greatly. Two years after her mother's death

(1907) Anna Jarvis and her friends began a letter-writing

campaign to gain the support of influential ministers,

businessmen and congressmen in declaring a national Mother's

Day holiday. She felt children often neglected to appreciate their