初中生必读英语美文精选.docx

1、初中生必读英语美文精选 初中生必读英语美文精选从周作人提出美文主张的具体文学语境(他的知识构成与文学关注等)来看,在冲淡平和的美学外衣之下,他的美文写作其实别有一种现代性反思的文化功能。下面是 带来的初中生必读英语美文，欢迎阅读!父亲节和母亲节People in the United States honor their parents with two special days:Mother's Day,on the second Sunday inMay,and Father's Day,on the third Sunday in June.Mother's Da

2、y was proclaimed a day for national observance by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915.Ann Jarvis from Grafton,West Virginia,had started the idea to have a day to honor mothers.She was the one who chose the second Sunday in May and also began the custom of wearing a carnation.In 1909,Mrs.Dodd from Spoka

3、ne,Washington,thought of the idea of a day to honor fathers.She wanted to honorher own father,William Smart.After her mother died,he had the responsibility of raising a family of five sons and a daugther.In 1910,the first Father's Day was observed in Spokane.Senator Margaret Chase Smith helped t

4、o establish Father's Day as a national commemorative day,in 1972.These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents.They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens.They give love and care.These two special days are celebrated in many different ways.On Mother'

5、s Day people wear carnations.A red one symbolizes a living mother.A white one shows that the mother is dead.Many people attend religious services to honor parents.It is also a day when peolple whose parents are dead visit the cemetery.On these days families get together at home,as well as in restaur

6、ants.They often have outdoor barbecues for Father's Day.These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.Another traditon is to give cards and gifts.Children make them in school.Many people make their own presents.These are valued more than the ones bought in stores.It is not the value of th

7、e gift is important,but it is "the thought that counts".Greeting card stores,florists,candy makers,bakeries,telephone companies,andother stores do a lot of business during these holidays.美国人以两个特殊的日子向他们的父母表示敬意：这就是每年5月份第二个星期日的母亲节和6月份第三个星期日的父亲节。母亲节作为一个全国性的节日是伍德罗.威尔逊总统于1915年宣布的。西弗吉尼亚州格拉弗顿区的安.贾

8、维斯女士首先想到应该有一个特殊的日子向母亲致以敬意。是她选择了五月份的第二个星期日，也是由她开始了佩戴康乃馨的习俗。1909年，华盛顿州斯波坎市的多德夫人想到应该为父亲设置一个特殊的日子以示敬意。她想向自己的父亲;威廉斯.斯马特表示感激之情。她母亲去世之后，是父亲担起了养活五子一女的责任。1910年，第一个父亲节在斯波坎市诞生。参议员玛格丽特.切斯.史密斯于1972年帮助把父亲节推广成为全国性节日。这两天是儿女向父母表示一片爱心和敬重之情的日子。父母们把孩子们带大，教育他们成为有责任感的公民，并给予他们爱心和关怀。人们用各种形式来庆贺这两个特殊的日子。在母亲节那天，人们佩戴康乃馨。佩戴红色康乃

9、馨表示母亲依然健在，佩戴白色康乃馨则表示母亲已经去世。许多人参加宗教仪式以向父母致意，或者去公墓缅怀逝去的父母。在这两天，家家都会聚在餐馆或家中。人们也常在父亲节那天举办露天烧烤聚会。这是充满欢歌笑语、美好情感和无限回忆的日子。另一个传统习俗是赠送卡片和礼物。孩子们在学校亲手制作，许多成年人也自制礼物。这些亲手制作的礼物比那些花钱买来的更有价值。礼物的贵贱并不重要，“重要的是对父母的拳拳之心”。贺卡店、花店、糖果店、面包房、电话公司，以及许多其他商店在节日里会大做生意。初中生必读英语美文阅读洛克非勒家族信条They are the principles on which my wife and

10、 I have tried to bring up our family .They are theprinciples in which my father believed and by which he governed his life .They are theprinciples,many of them ,whichI learned at my mother's knee.They point the way to usefulness and happiness in life, to courage and peace in death.If they mean t

11、o you what they mean to me, they may perhaps be helpful also to our sons fortheir guidance and inspiration.Let me state them:I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life ,liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness.I believe that every right implies a responsibility;every opport

12、unity ,an obligation ;everypossession,a duty.I believe that the law was made for the man and not man for the law;that government is theservant of people and not their master.I believe in the dignity of the labor,whether with head or hand;that the world owes no man aliving but that it owes every man

13、an opportunity to make a living.I believe that thrift is essential to wellordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of asound financial structure,whether in government,business or personal affairs.I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.I believe in th

14、e sacredness of a promise,that a man's word should be as good as his bond,thecharacter-not wealth or power or position-is of supreme worth.I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only inthe purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness cons

15、umed and the greatness of thehuman soul set free.I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God,named by whatever name,and that the individual'shighest fulfillment,greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living inharmory with His will.I believe that love is the greatest thing in

16、 the world;that it alone can overcome hate;that rightcan and will triumph over might.There sre the principles,however formulated,for which all good men and women throughout theworld,irrespective of race or creed,education,social position or occupation,are standing,and forwhich many of them are suffering and dying.These are the principles upon which alone a new world recognizing the bortherhood of man thefatherhood ofGod can be estab