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1、厦门十中 早读诵读材料2厦门十中2019-2020学年第一学期高二英语美文诵读 : Passage 1 Life is a gift 享受生活Today before you think of saying an unkind word, 如今，在你出言不逊前，Think of someone who cant speak. 想想那些身患哑疾的人吧。Before you complain about the taste of your food, 在抱怨事物不够美味前，Think of someone who has nothing to eat. 想想那些还在忍饥挨饿的人们吧。Before

2、you complain about your husband or wife, 在抱怨婚姻对象不尽如意时，Think of someone whos crying out to God for a companion. 想想那些还在为找不到对象而愁苦的人吧Today before you complain about life, 在为生活的种种深感郁闷前，Think of someone who went too early to heaven. 想想那些早已离开人世的人吧。Before you complain about your children, 在为孩子不听话而气恼前，Think

3、of someone who desires children but theyre barren. 想想那些不能生育而渴求孩子的人吧。Before you argue about your dirty house someone didnt clean or sweep， 在为房子没人清洁打扫而发牢骚前Think of the people who are living in the streets. 想想那些无家可归的人吧。Before whining about the distance you drive, 在抱怨行车旅途太长前，Think of someone who walks t

4、he same distance with their feet. 想想那些要走相同距离的徒步者吧。And when you are tired and complain about your job,在你感到疲惫，厌烦工作前，Think of the unemployed, the disabled and those who wished they had your job. 想想那些失业工人和残疾人以及渴望有一份你这样的工作的人吧。But before you think of pointing your finger or condemning another, 在指责他人前，Reme

5、mber that not one of us is without sin and we all answer to one maker. 想想吧，人都不是完美的，我们都对上帝尽责。And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down,当消极思维让你深感沮丧时，Put a smile on your face and thank God youre alive and still around. 微笑吧，并感谢上帝赐予你生命。Life is a gift, 生活是一份礼物，Enjoy it, 享受它，Celebrate it, 庆祝它， And

6、fulfill it. 充实它。And while you want to give love to someone today, 当你要向某人表达爱意，Love someone with what you do and the words you say， 用你的言行去爱吧。Love is not meant to be kept locked inside of us and hidden, 爱并非要深藏于心底，So give it away Give love to someone today! 表达出来吧，“现在就去爱！”Passage 2 Be grateful to life 感恩

7、生活Once President Roosevelts house was broken into and lots of things were stolen. Hearing this, one of Roosevelts friends wrote to him and advised him not to take it to his heart so much.美国总统罗斯福的家曾经失窃，财物损失严重。朋友闻此消息，就写信来安慰他，劝他不必把这件事放在心上。President Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying,”Dear friend,

8、 thank you for your letter to comfort me. Im all right now. I think I should thank God. This is because of the following three reasons: firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most lu

9、ckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief”罗斯福总统很快回信说：“亲爱的朋友，谢谢你来信安慰我，我一切都很好。我想我应该感谢上帝，因为：第一，我损失的只是财物，而人却毫发未损；第二，我只损失了部分财物，而非所有财产；第三，最幸运的是，做小偷的是那个人，而不是我”It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from. However, President Roosevelt had such three reasons to be so grateful. This

10、story tells us how we can learn to be grateful in our life.对任何人来说，家中失窃绝非幸事。但是，罗斯福总统却能找到三个感恩的理由。这个故事告诉我们，生活中，我们应该学会感恩。Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom. . It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time so long as he lives in the world. ” If you

11、are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight.感恩是一项重要的处世哲学，是生活的大智慧。人生在世，不可能事事顺通。对于各种失败和不幸，我们要豁达大度，勇敢地面对，并想办法解决。We should learn how to face failure or misfortune bravely and generously and to try to deal with it. If so, should we complain about our life and become frustrated and disappoint

12、ed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves after a fall? William Thackeray, a famous British writer, said, “Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it , it will also面对困难，我们是懊恼抱怨、沮丧气馁，陷入绝望，还是对生活满怀感恩之心，跌倒后再爬起来呢？英国著名作家威廉萨克雷说过，“生活是一面镜子，你对它笑，它也会对你笑；你对他哭，它也会对你哭。”If

13、 you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.如果对生活感恩，你的生命将充满灿烂的阳光；如果一味怨恨，终将一无所获。我们成功时，有千万个理由感恩生活，而失败时，只要一个借口就会表现出忘恩负义。I think we should

14、even be grateful to life whenever we are unsuccessful or unlucky. Only by doing this can we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail. We can also get relief and warmth when we are unlucky. This can help us find our courage to overcome the difficulties we may face, and receive great impetus to

15、 move on. We should treat our frustration and misfortune in our life in the other way just as President Roosevelt did. We should be grateful all the time and keep having a healthy attitude to our life forever, keep having perfect characters and enterprising spirit. Being grateful is not only a kind

16、of comfort, not an escape from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like Ah Q. Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.我想，不论是遭遇失败还是不幸，我们都应该感谢生活。只有这样，失败后，我们才能发现自己的缺点和不足，不幸时，我们还能感受到安慰和温暖。这些就能帮我们找回勇气，战胜困难，并获取前进的强大推动力。我们应像罗斯福总统那样，换一个角度去看待生活中的失败和挫折，永远对生活

17、充满感恩，才能时刻保持健康的心态，积极地生活，并能保持完美的人格和不断进取的精神。感恩不仅仅是一种精神慰藉，也不是对现实的规避，更不是阿Q的精神胜利法。感恩源于我们对生活的热爱和希望，它是我们歌颂生活的一种方式。When we put a small piece of alum into muddy water, we can see the alum can soon make the water clear. If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, well be able to get rid of impulse, upset,

18、 dissatisfaction and misfortune. Being grateful can bring us a better and more beautiful life.把一小块明矾放入混沌的水中，我们发现，水很快就澄清了。如果人人都有一颗感恩的心，就能沉淀许多的浮躁和不安，消融许多的不满和不幸。感恩能让我们的生活变得更加美好。 Passage 3 If were a boy again 如果再回到童年If I were a boy again,I would practise perseverance more often,and never give up a thing

19、 because it was hard or inconvenient.If we want light,we must conquer darkness.Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results.“There are only two creatures,”says a proverb;“who can surmount the pyramids-the eagle and the snail.”谚语说：“能登上金字塔的生物只有两种雄鹰与蜗牛。”如果我们需要光明,我们就得征服黑暗.在产生的结果方面,毅力往往可以与天才相媲美

20、。假如我再回到童年,我会更多地培养自己的毅力,决不因为事情艰难或麻烦而放弃不干If I were a boy again,I would school myself into a habit of attention .I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand.I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once.The habit of attention becomes part of our life

21、,if we begin early enough.假如我再回到童年，我会培养自己专心致志的习惯；一旦手头有事，决不让任何东西使我分心。我会牢记：一位优秀的溜冰手从不试图同时滑向两个不同的方向。如果及早养成专心致志的习惯，它就会成为我们生命的一个部分。I often hear grown-up people say,“I could not fix my attention on the lecture or book, although I wished to do so,”and the reason is,the habit was not formed in youth.我常常听到成年

22、认说：“尽管我希望集中注意力听讲课或读书，但往往做不到。”其愿意就在于年轻时没有养成这种习惯。If I were to live my life over again,I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory.I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and,on every possible occasion.It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately;b

23、ut memory soon helps itself,and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.假如我能重新活过，我会更加注意培养自己的记忆力。我要采取一切可能的办法，在一切可能的场合,增强记忆力。要精确地记住一切事物，起初的确要作出一番小小的努力；但用不了多久，记忆力本身就会起作用，使记忆成为轻而易举的事。只需及早培养，记忆自会成为一种才能。If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. Nothing is so mi

24、ld and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice, says a wise author.We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never appear.The fear of ill exceeds the ill we fear.Dangers will arise in any career, but presence of mind will often conquer the worst of them.Be prepared f

25、or any fate, and there is no harm to be feared.假如我又回到了童年，我就要培养勇气。世上没有东西比勇气更温文尔雅，也没有东西比懦怯更残酷无情。一位明智的作家曾说过我们常常过多地自寻烦恼，杞人忧天。 怕祸害比祸害本身更可怕,凡事都有危险，但镇定沉着往往能克服最严重的危险。对一切祸福做好准备，那么就没有什么灾难可以害怕的了。If I were a boy again,I would look on the cheerful side.Life is very much like a mirror:if you smile upon it,it smil

26、es back upon you;but if you frown and look doubtful on it,you will get a similar look in return.Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it.假如我能再回到童年，我会凡事都看光明的一面。生活就像一面镜子：你朝它微笑，它也会朝你微笑：但如果你朝它皱眉头，它也会朝你皱眉头；内心的阳光不仅温暖了自己的心，同时也温暖了所有跟他接触的人的心。Who shuts love

27、 out,in turn shall be shut from love.“谁将爱拒之门外，谁就会被爱拒之门外。”If I were a boy again,I would school myself to say “No”oftener.I might write pages on the importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect,and decline doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.假

28、如我再回到童年，我就要养成经常说“不”的习惯。 我可以写上好几页，谈谈早期培养这一点的重要性,一个少年要能挺得起腰杆,拒绝做不值得做得事就因为它不值得做。If I were a boy again,I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends,and indeed towards strangers as well.The smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the little birds that sing t

29、o us all winter long,and make that season of ice and snow more endurable.Finally,instead of trying hard to be happy,as if that were the sole purpose of life,I would,if I were a boy again,try still harder to make others happy.假如我再回到童年，我会要求自己对待同伴和朋友更礼貌，而且对陌生人也同样如此。再坎坷得人生道路上，最细小的礼貌犹如在漫长的冬季为我们唱歌的小鸟，使得冰天

30、雪地的严冬变得较易忍受。最后，假如我再回到童年，我不会竭力为自己谋幸福仿佛那是人生的唯一目标；与之相反，我会更加努力让他人幸福。Passage 4 We are on a journey 我们在旅途中Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest, we are on a journey. Our lif

31、e is a movement, a tendency, a steady, and ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.不论你处在什么地方，也不论你是什么人，不管是在此时此刻，还是在我们生命中的任何一个瞬间，有一件事对你我来说是恰巧相同的，我们不是在休息，我们是在一次旅途中，我们的生活是一种运动，一种趋势，是向一个看不见的目标稳定而不停地进步。We are gaining something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem

32、 to remain precisely the same, but in fact, they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child, but childish in the man.每一天，我们都会赢得某些东西，或者会失去某些东西。 甚至当我们的位置和我们的性格看起来跟以前完全相似时，它们事实上仍然在变化着。因为仅仅是时间的前进就是一种变化。对于一块荒地来说，在1月和7月是不同的，季节会制造差异。能力上的缺陷对于孩子来说是一种可爱的品质，但对于大人来说就是一种幼稚的表现。Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do