英语晨读美文5篇
高中英语晨读美文：never too late
5.never too late to become what you want to be
The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.
"Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, " I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."
"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we wouldleave class together and tolk nonstop. I was always listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to make a speech to our football team. I'll never forget what she taught us. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, "I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began:" We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.
Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.The only people who fear death are those with regrets."
At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
高中英语晨读美文：Up to You
4.Up to You
Jerry was the kind of guy who was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say.
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. "
"Yeah, right, it’s not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I changed my job. We lost touch.Several years later, I heard that Jerry was robbed and was shot. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "I feel really good.”
I asked him what had gone through his mind when he was taken to the hospital.
Jerry replied, “The first thing came to my mind was that I should have closed the back door. Then I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live. ”
Jerry continued, "The nurses kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses scared me. In their eyes, I read,‘He’s a dead man. ‘I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, a nurse asked if I was allergic to anything," said Jerry, ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses were waiting for my reply... I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live positively.
高中英语晨读美文：Adrift
3.Adrift
In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was floating in a life raft, alone. When three fishermen found him seventy-six days later (the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone), he was still alive.
His account of how he survived is fascinating. But the thing that caught my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no point in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life raft was punctured and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to fix it, it was still leaking air. Giving up would have seemed the only sane option.
When people survive these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in similarly desperate circumstances give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the guts to carry on in spite of overwhelming odds.
"I tell myself I can handle it," wrote Callahan in his narrative."Compared to what others have been through, I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, building up fortitude..."
I wrote that down after I read it. It struck me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my senses.
The truth is our circumstances are only bad compared to something better. But others have been through much worse. I’ve read enough history to know you and I are lucky to be where we are, when we are, no matter how bad it seems to us compared to our fantasies. It’s a sane thought and worth thinking.
So whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it. Compared to what others have been through, you’re fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots with a little more fortitude.
高中英语晨读美文：The Farmer's Donkey
2. The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone. Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.2. The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly.
Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.
高中英语晨读美文：Follow your dream
1.Follow your dream
There was a young man,born in a poor family.As a result,the boy's high school career wascontinually interrupted.Once he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up .
That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch.He wrote about his dream in great detailand he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch.Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot housethat would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
He put a great deal of his heart into the projectAnd the next day he handed it in to his teacher.Two days later he received his paper back.On the front page was a large red F with a note that read,"See me after class."
The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after classand asked,"Why did I receive an F?"
The teacher said,"this is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you.You have no money.you have no resources from your family.There's no way you could ever do it."Then the 1.teacher added,"if you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal,I will reconsider your grade."
The boy went home and thought about it long and hard.He ask his father what he should do.His father said,"look,son,you have to make up your own mind on this.However,I think it is a very important decision for you."
Finally,after sitting with it for a week,the boy turned in the same page,Making no changes at all.hestated,"you can keep the F and I'll keep my dream."
Recollecting the story,My friend Monty and I are now sitting in his 4000-square-foot house
in the middle of a 200-acre house ranch.Two summers agothat same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on his ranch.When the teacher was leaving,hesaid,"lookMonty,I can tell you this now.When I was your teacher,I was something of a dream stealer.During those years I stole a lot of kids' dreams.Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours."
Don't let anyone steal you dream.follow you heart,no matter what.
高考双语阅读：超萌小小熊猫狗惹人爱 成为“新宠”
It’s panda-monium in pet shops in China as dogs that look like the country’s unique and rare bears become all the rage.
These dogs that look like pandas are selling out in pet stores across the country.
In Chengdu city in southwest China’s Sichuan province, pet shop owner Hsin Ch’en cannot satisfy demand among the country’s new middle class who want the cute dogs as pets.
“Ten years ago the natural instinct of a Chinese person was to eat a dog,” he told London’s Metro newspaper.
“Now we are like Westerners and want one as a companion. The cute breeds like French bulldogs and Labradors were the favourites, but now it is the panda dog.”
Actually, Hsin Ch’en is being disingenuous. The panda dog is not a separate breed of pooch at all, but rather a chow which has undergone a lot of cosmetic tomfoolery to make it resemble a panda.
He went on: “I perfected the technique here and now it is spreading across the country. With a bit of careful grooming and coloring, it is easy to turn a chow into a panda dog in about two hours. Then the look will stay with the dog for around six weeks and the owners bring them back for some touching up.
“There are no chemicals or cruelty involved. But the price of the dog does rise significantly because of the amount of grooming that goes into it. People don’t mind paying the extra, though — they like the fact that heads turn in the street and they can tell their friends: ‘I have a panda dog.’”
据《纽约邮报》5月14日报道，中国的宠物商店里出现了《魔豆传奇》的主人公!事实上，这是一种酷似国宝大熊猫的狗，最近，这种熊猫狗十分流行。
在中国的宠物商店里，这种熊猫狗遭疯抢，很快便售罄。
在中国西南部四川省成都市，一家宠物店店主陈先生表示，中国的新兴中产阶级想要可爱萌人的狗当宠物养，已经无法满足他们的要求了。
“十年前，中国人提到狗时，他们的自然本能是吃狗肉。”陈先生告诉伦敦地铁报。
“现在我们有点像西方人，都想找个宠物做伴。这种可爱的狗看着类似法国斗牛犬和纽芬兰猎犬，是顾客们的最爱。但它现在是‘熊猫狗’。”
实际上，陈先生没有说出实情。熊猫狗并不是杂种狗的另外一个品种，她的真实身份是一只松狮犬，经过美容之后，使得这种狗看起来像熊猫。
陈先生还说：“我完善了美容技术，现在，这种技术正遍及全国。经过一些仔细的修饰和上色，松狮犬就轻而易举地在两个小时内变身为熊猫狗。
“在变身过程中，没有涉及任何的化学物质和残忍行径。由于多了美容的这道工序，熊猫狗的价格确实飞快上涨。不过人们并不在意，他们更喜欢街上的高回头率，好向朋友们炫耀：“瞧，我有一只熊猫狗。”
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