英专必背35篇英文美文.docx

1、英专必背35篇英文美文New Beijing, Great OlympicsThe 2008 Olympic Game has been the most cheerful and anticipated event throughout Beijing ever since Beijing was rewarded the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, yet the focus should be shifted from making a promise to fulfilling the promise made. In my

2、 point of view, to bridge the gap between the promise and reality, Beijing still has a long way to go. To begin with, infrastructure construction should be the primary concern. Such infrastructures as communications and transportation system and facilities ought to draw our constant attention. First

3、, traffic jam has been an age old headache in Beijing. The scene of long queues of vehicles worming their way inch by inch will surely cause great incontinence, and blemish the image of the city meanwhile. Next, to add enchantment to convenience, overall city planning is indispensable. Time permitti

4、ng, a redesign of city layout and adjustment of architectural style would provide a better environment for fostering the characteristic, blending, oriental elegance with international grandeur, will tower aloft among surrounding architectures. To achieve such effect, Beijing shall solicit opinions f

5、rom first rate architects and make an overall plan. Thirdly, quality of the population should be improved. To make an international metropolis, both “hardware” and “software” are important.However, Rome was not built in a day. To carry out the promise of “New Beijing, Great Olympics”, deeds speak lo

6、uder than words.Love Is Just a ThreadSometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They dont act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion,“

7、I love you”is too luxurious for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentines Day is even more out of the question. Finally my father has a bad temper. When hes very tired from the hard work, it is easy for him to lose his temper.One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat down

8、beside her and looked at her.“Mom, I have a question to ask you,”I said after a while.“What?”she replied, still doing her work.“Is there love between you and Dad?”I asked her in a very low voice.My mother stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. She didnt answer immediately. T

9、hen she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt.I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was in a great embarrassment and I didnt know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:“Susan,”she said thoughtfully,“Look at this thread. Sometimes it appears,

10、 but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but its really there. Love is inside.”I listened carefully but I couldnt understand her until the next spring. A

11、t that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness.After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped

12、 my father walk slowly on the country road. My father had never been so gentle. It seemed they were the most harmonious couple. Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees. The sun gently glistened through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful pictu

13、re in the world.The doctor had said my father would recover in two months. But after two months he still couldnt walk by himself. All of us were worried about him.“Dad, how are you feeling now?”I asked him one day.“Susan, dont worry about me.”he said gently.“To tell you the truth, I just like walkin

14、g with your mom. I like this kind of life.”Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.The Lotus S

15、utra Parable of the Good DoctorThere was a good doctor. He was wise and intelligent. His medical skill was superior, he can cure various diseases. And he had many sons. One day, the doctor went away from home to visit his patients in other country.After the doctor left, his sons drank the poison by

16、accident. When the poison in their body went into action, they cannot take the pain and suffering but rolling on the floor. Some of the sons were heavily poisoned and lost their perceptions, but rest of them did not. In the mean time, their father came back home. All of them were very happy to see t

17、heir father coming back, and they all kneeled down and folded their hands to welcome their father coming back home safely. The sons told their father that, they were stupid and they drank the poison by accident. They asked their father to relieve and treat them. The father saw his sons suffering fro

18、m the poison, he wrote the prescriptions for his sons, and bought the best herbs for them to take. For those sons who were not heavily poisoned, they took the best medicine right away and get cured. For the sons who were heavily poisoned, although they were folded their hands to welcome their father

19、 coming back home and asked their father to treat their illnesses. But they did not want to take the best medicine that their father gave them. They said this medicine was not the best medicine. The father thought, these sons were very pity, they did not want to take the medicine because their perce

20、ptions were upside down. Although they were very happy to see him, and asked him for the best medicine to neutralize the poison. He should think of a good method to make them taking the medicine. The father immediately told those sons that, they should know he was senile and could be die at any time

21、. He left the best medicine here so that they can take it. After the father saying that, he went back to other country to visit his patients again. After this good doctor arrived the destination, he sent a messenger back to tell his sons that, your father is dead. The sons were very sad and worry wh

22、en they heard the bad news. They thought, if their father were still alive, he would compassionately relieve and nurse them whenever they were sick. Today, their father renounced them and died in other country, they became orphans and they did not have father to depend on. The sons were sadly rememb

23、er their father with longing and grateful to him very often. Because of this, their perceptions were awaking gradually. Then they realized that the medicine that their father gave them were the best medicine with the best quality. So they took the medicine immediately, and their illnesses were cured

24、. As soon as their father heard that all of his sons were cured, he came back home to see them. Similarly, Buddha is like this good doctor, he went through countless four asankhya kalpas in the rise, duration, and end of every universe to teach innumerable living beings to enter the Buddha path. For

25、 delivering the living beings, Buddha used an expedient method, that is, entering the Nirvana. If the Buddha dwelled in the world for long, the sentient beings with less merit would not cultivate the good roots. They would be in poverty, attach to the five desires arising from the objects of the fiv

26、e senses, and trap in the net of wondering thoughts and false views. If Tathagata was always abiding and not dying, the living beings would be arrogance and pride, weary and lazy. They would not generate the thought that It is hard to have Buddha dwelling in the world and the reverence mind. Thats w

27、hy Buddha used this expedient method entering the Nirvana for delivering the living beings. As soon as the Buddha entering the Nirvana, the living beings made offerings of Buddhas Sari, they were all remember the Buddha with longing and grateful to him. Because of this, the living beings generated t

28、he reverence mind. They had cultivated the good roots after they believed in and submitted themselves to the Buddha. They entered the supreme way or truth that of Buddha, and attained the three fold embodiment of Buddha quickly. A Brothers MiracleTess was a precocious eight-year-old when she heard h

29、er Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didnt have the money for the doctors bills and our house. Only a very costly surgery could save him

30、 now and it was looking like there was no-one to loan them the money. She heard Daddy say to her tearful Mother with whispered desperation, “Only a miracle can save him now.” Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out on t

31、he floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be absolutely exact. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way six blocks to the pharmacy with the big red Indian Chief sign a

32、bove the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it! “And what do you want?” the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. “Im talking to my brother from Chicago whom I havent seen in ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question. “Well, I want to talk to you a