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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英语名篇佳作100篇背诵手册Content 1 If I Were a Boy AgainIf I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and never give up a thing 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 tw

2、o creatures, says a proverb, who can surmount the pyramidsthe eagle and the snail.If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; 1 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. T

3、he habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. 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.If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more att

4、ention 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; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become

5、 a power.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 smiles 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 com

6、e in contact with it. Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut from love.If I were a boy again, 1 would school myself to say No oftener. 1 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 becau

7、se it is unworthy.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 life the little birds that sing to us all winter long, and make that season of ice and sn

8、ow more endurable.Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if that were the sole purpose of life, if I were a boy again, try still harder to make others happy. Words: 428 2 Ways of CommunicationWhen you speak, write a letter, or make a telephone call, your words carry a message. People commun

9、icate with words. But do you know people also communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you raise your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask questions. You shake your head and peo

10、ple know you are saying No. You nod and people know you are saying Yes.Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs on the doors tell you where to go in or out. Ha

11、ve you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive messages from them all the time?People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, the blue seas and many other things. Books are written to tell you about all

12、the wonderful things in the world and what other people are thinking about. Words: 2083 The Fight against Youth SmokingSince I took office Ive done everything in my power to protect our children from harm. Weve worked to make their streets and their schools safer, to give them something positive to

13、do after school and before their parents get home. Weve worked to teach our children that drugs are dangerous, illegal and wrong.Today, I want to talk to you about the historic opportunity we now have to protect our nations children from an even more deadly threat: smoking. Smoking kills more people

14、 every day than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires combined. Nearly 90 percent of those smokers lit their first cigarette before they turned 18. Consider this: 3,000 children start to smoke every day illegally, and 1,000 of them will die sooner because of it.This is a n

15、ational tragedy that every American should be honor-bound to help prevent. For more than five years weve worked to stop our children from smoking before they start, launching a nationwide campaign to educate them about the dangers of smoking, to reduce their access to tobacco products, and to severe

16、ly restrict tobacco companies from advertising to young people. If we do these, well cut teen smoking by almost half over the next five years. That means if we act now, we have it in our power to stop 3 million children from smokingand to save a million lives as a result.4 The Value of TimeTime, say

17、s the proverb, is money. This means that every moment well-spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capaciti

18、es so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those, who think nothing of wasting time, remember this.Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no exp

19、ense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in

20、all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from t

21、he term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.All time is precious; but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion o

22、f our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of

23、childhood and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages. Words: 358forfeit / 5fR:fIt/ 5 Touchy TopicsImmediately after introductions are made there is usually a period of time in which impersonal or trivial subjects are discussed. This type of conversation, called small talk, is

24、 important because it often helps to keep conversations and can lead into interesting discussions.Usually people start small talk by asking about things like family, work, school or sports. They ask each other questions like Do you live in this area? Do you have any brothers or sisters? Where do you

25、 work? What school do you go to? and Do you like sports?. It is also common for people to ask such questions as Where do you come from? How do you like living here? and What do you do?. These are polite questions. They are not personal or private. But it is uncommon and considered impolite to ask qu

26、estions about a persons salary, such as How much money do you make?. They dont ask how much money someone paid for something, for example, How much does your house cost?. It is OK to ask children how old they are, but it is not polite to ask older people about their age, especially women. It is not

27、polite to ask people questions about politics or religion either unless you know them very well. People dont ask unmarried people, Why are you single?, and they dont ask a married couple with no children, Why dont you have any children?. These are generally considered too personal for first meetings

28、. Words: 249 6 What Money Is For?Money is a blessing when it is used rightly. The same is true of all other good things. They bless if used well; they curse when abused. Many people do not seem to know what money is for. They want it above all things. But they want it to spend chiefly on themselves.

29、Some boys appear to think that money is to buy good clothes and foods, toys and amusements. Some also seem to think that money is to buy leisure with. They consider that the highest happiness is to live without work. But that is not at all what money is for. We should get nearer the truth than that.

30、Money is our circulating medium in trade. Families need it to buy things they must have. In this way society exists, and the world of traffic prospers. Money means food, clothing, dwelling schools, books, wise recreation, and the means of doing good.Of course money is not something to hoard. Its val

31、ue is in its use. A million gold dollars would have been worth no more than a million stones to Robinson Crusoe on his island home. There was nothing to buy, and therefore, no use for money. And so money that is simply hoarded is of no value. It does not purchase the necessaries of life, nor relieve

32、 those who are in want. That is not what money is for. The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. That is money sought for its own sake is the cause of all sorts of evillying, stealing, cheating, robbery, and even murder. This is the best reason for avoiding the love of money. Wo

33、rds: 284 7 I Dread the End of the YearI dread to come to the end of the year, said a friend to me recently, it makes me realize I am growing old.William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are old fogies at twenty-five. He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their job

34、s. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their principles , and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.The minute a man ceases to growno matter what his yearsthat minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.

35、Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense

36、.And there you have the real answer to the question, When is a man old?Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say, I grew, he is sti

37、ll young.The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, I know all that I need to know, that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old. Words: 2748 Education a Means to an EndEducation is not an end, but a means to a

38、n end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to fit them for life. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a good way of education which will really prepare children for life.In many modem cou

39、ntries it has for some time been fashionable to think that, by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough: we find in such countries a far larger

40、number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degree, they refused to do what they think low work; and in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.But we have to understand that the work of a completely uneducated f

41、armer is more important than that of a professor in a way: we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns. In countries where there are no servants because nobody is w

42、illing to do such work, the professors have to waste much of their time doing housework.In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain and ability, and secon

43、dly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be unwilling to do ones work, or to laugh at someone elses. Only such a type of education can be called valuable to society. Words: 3459 Air JordanSports fans all over the world recognize the name of Michael

44、Jordan. From Taiwan to Tennessee, kids wear clothes with his picture on them. Jerseys with his number 23 on the front, jackets with the Bulls logo on the back, and Air Jordan athletic shoes all reflect the fame of this superstar. Michael Jordan has become the most famous attraction of the worlds fav

45、orite spectator sport.Michael Jordan was born in 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Michael did not look like a future superstar. He was very shy and didnt like to talk to other people about himself. He was also very short. He showed little promise of having a future career in basketball. When

46、he tried out for the freshman team in high school, Michael didnt make it. The next year, however, after a large growth spurt, he made the team. The rest is history.Michaels road to fame began at the University of North Carolina. He brought an acrobatic style to the game that few had seen before. Mic

47、hael used his quickness and strength to reach the basket again and again. He became famous for his powerful slam dunk. Basketball fans from all over the world began to take notice. One reporter wrote that when Michael went up to dunk the basketball, it looked like he could fly. He was given the nick

48、name “Air Jordan”. Words: 23110 On My Mothers BirthdayClad in all their brightest green, This day the verdant fields are seen;The tuneful birds begin their lay, To celebrate thy natal day.The breeze is still, the sea is calm, And the whole scene combines to charm;The flowers revive, this charming May Because it is thy natal day.The sky is blue, the day serene, And only pleasure now is seen;