英語背誦小短文 英語散文閱讀六篇.doc

1、英語背誦小短文 英語散文閱讀六篇散文是指文藝性散文，它是一種以記敘或抒情為主，取材廣泛、筆法靈敏、篇幅短小、情文并茂的文學(xué)款式。為大家分享了英語的散文閱讀，歡送借鑒！英語閱讀：Today I begina New LifeToday I begin a new life.Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediority.Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard wher

2、e there is fruit for all.Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard,for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have e before me,generation upon generation.Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the

3、seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me.The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.Ye

4、t I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts which will guide through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream.Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any p

5、rovision for my life to suffer failure.Failure, like pain, is alien to my life.In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain.Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most e_tra

6、vagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward.Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the lu_ury of eternity.Yet within my allotted time I must practice the art of patience for nature acts never in haste.To create

7、 the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required.An onion plant is old in nine weeks.I have lived as an onion plant.It has not pleased me.Now I wouldst bee the greatest of olive trees and, in truth, the greatest of salesman.And how will this be acplished? For I have neither the knowledge n

8、or the e_perience to achieve the greatness and already I have stumbled in ignorance and fallen into pools of self-pity.The answer is simple.I will mence my journey unencumbered with either the weight of unnecessary knowledge or the handicap of meaningless e_perience.Nature already has supplied me wi

9、th knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of e_perience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.In truth, e_perience teaches thoroughly yet her course of instruction devours men's years so the value of her lessons diminishes with

10、the time necessary to acquire her special wisdom.The end finds it wasted on dead men.Furthermore, e_perience is parable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow.Only principles endure and these I now possess, for the laws that will lead me to gre

11、atness are contained in the words of these scrolls.What they will teach me is more to prevent failure than to gain success, for what is success other than a state of mind? Which two, among a thouand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way.Failure

12、is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.英語閱讀：An Empty Bo_Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family's only roll of e_pensive gold wrapping paper.Money was tight, and he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that

13、 the child had pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebo_ to put under the Christmas tree.Nevertheless, the ne_t morning the little girl, filled with e_citement, brought the gift bo_ to her father and said, “This is for you, Daddy!”As he opened the bo_, the father was embarrassed by his earli

14、er overreaction.But when he opened it, he found it was empty and again his anger flared.“Don't you know, young lady, ” he said harshly, “when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package!”The little girl looked up at him with tears rolling from her eyes and

15、said: “Daddy, it's not empty.I blew kisses into it until it was all full.”The father was crushed.He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl.He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.An accident took the life of the child only a short time later.It is told

16、that the father kept that little gold bo_ by his bed for all the years of his life.Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the bo_, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.In a very real sense, each of us as human b

17、eings have been given an invisible golden bo_ filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.英語閱讀：Happiness Equates with Fun?I live in Hollywood.You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are

18、 happier than others.If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun.The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in mon.Fun is what we e_perience during an act.Happiness is what we e_perience after an act.It is

19、a deeper, more abiding emotion.Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us rela_, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh.But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.I have often thoug

20、ht that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun.These rich, beautiful inpiduals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, e_pensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”.But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken