2023年英语经典短文.docx

2023年英语经典短文 中小学课外辅导专家 英语经典短文 一、How to use an English-Chinese dictionary? When you are reading something in English, you may often come acro a new word.Whats the best way to know it? You may look it up in an English-Chinese dictionary.It will tell you a lot about the word: the pronunciation, the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word.But how can you know where the word is in thousands of English words? How to find it in the dictionary both quickly and correctly? First, all the English words are arranged in the alphabetical order.In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the Ietter A, then B,C,D,EThat means if there are two words “desert”and “pull”,” “desert”will be certainly before“pull”.Then if there,are two words both beginning with the same letter,you may look at the second letter.Then the third, the fourthFor example, “pardon”is before “plough”, “judge”is before “just”,etc.Do you understand how to look up a word in a dictionary? The dictionary will be your good friend,I hope youll use it as often as poible in your English learning.二、Travel by bike If you go to visit London, youll see a lot of buses and cars on the road.Youll also see a lot of bikes because more people travel by bike.There are a lot of reasons for this.First, it is very cheap to buy a bike, and it is quick, too .You often have to wait for a bus for half an hour.When the bus comes, there are so many other buses and cars on the roads that the bus moves very slowly. I traveled to work by bus for about four years.I often arrived at work late and tired.Then one day, about two years ago, a friend of mine said, “ I go to work by bike.Why dont we travel together?” “Because my bike is old.” I answered, “And there are so many buses and cars on the roads.Ill feel frightened “You neednt feel frightened!” said my friend.“If you follow me and we ride slowly, youll be fine.” The next day I brought myself a new bike.Although we went slowly, we arrived ai work quickly.It took 40 minutes to go to work by bus, but only half an hour by bike! Now I dont feel afraid.I love going go work by bike.I take a different road every day.I arrived at work very quickly.Ive got a little more money now, and more important, I feel healthy. Many people think in the same way as I do.Thats why you see a lot of bikes on the road.Next year youll see more, I am sure.Perhaps in the future we will have roads for bikes only.I hope so. 三、American food habits Generally speaking, American food is rather bland and inspired.Salads are popular and are served all the year round.Many American people are “calorie” conscious.This is evident in menus offering “low calorie” or “weight watchers” meals.In markets one can find “No Cal” drinks (meaning without calories) such as ginger ale or cola.“Diet” foods without sugar or salt are also available in food stores.Waiters in American restaurants tend to aume that everyone drinks coffee.If a waiter suddenly asks “Now or later?” what he means is “Do you want coffee with your meal now or later?” Many American drinks Coffee with their meal.When dining out in the US we can ask for tea, milk,coke,bear and so on, if we prefer these to coffee, American restaurants cannot serve beer, wine, or liquor unle they are licensed to do so.The main course in American meals is usually meat, fowl, or fish, but rarely is more than one of these 上海宝茁教育济南学习中心 - 1 中小学课外辅导专家 七、Insects We often think of insects as being harmful.This is not quite true.Many insects are harmful.For example, flies carry disease.Other insects carry disease, too.Farmers are at war with insects most of the time.Hungry insects kill plants in the fields.Farmers spray the fields to get rid of these insects.Does this mean that all insects are harmful? No.Many are of great help to man.Bees make honey.Without bees and other insects, many trees would have no fruit.Silkworms make silk.Some insects eat other insects that kill fruit trees.Have you ever seen a praying mantis? People who do not know about the praying mantis sometimes kill it.They think it is harmful.But this insect is of great help to farmers and gardeners.It eats insects that kill plants. Long ago, many people thought of most insects as enemies.Today, we know the difference between harmful insects and those that help us. 八、Special language Can you see the rabbits tail? When a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away.Its tail is white and moves up and down as it runs.Other rabbits see the tail moving, and they run, too.They know that there is something danger.The rabbit has told them something without making a sound.It has given them a signal.Many other animals use this kind of language.When a cobra is angry, it raises its hood and makes itself look fierce.This warns other animals.When a bee has found some food, it goes back to its home.It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air.This tells the others where the food is.Some animals say things by making sounds.Sometimes we humans speak in the same way.But we have something that no animal has-a large number of words.No animal has the wonderful power of language.People living in different countries make different kinds of words.Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world.The words you know are called your vocabulary.You should try to make your vocabulary bigger.Read as many books as you can.When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary.Your dictionary is your most useful book. 九、A good idea Mike and Tom had studied in the same cla.After they had finished middle school, Mike went to college but Tom found work in a factory.The young man likes smoking very much and its bad for his health.Now he coughs day and night and hes too weak to work.So he was sent away.He spent all money on smoking and sometimes he has little food to eat.Once Tom met Mike in the street.Mike finished college and began to work in a post office and was paid much.When Tom knew about it, he asked Mike to lend two hundred dollars to him.Mike found it was difficult to refuse and agreed.A year later Mike was going go marry and needed a lot of money.He told Tom about it.Tom said he would pay off the debt the next month.But three months paed and Tom did not pay off his debt.And one day Mike went to his house again and said, “Havent you found any ideas to pay off your debt?” “Yes, I have.” Answered Tom.“ If you help me, Ill pay off my debt at once.” “whats it?” “Please lend me five hundred dollars again.” Said the man.“I shall pay you back two hundred dollars, and Ill pay Mr.White back two hundred dollars, and Ill spend one hundred dollars on some bread and a newer coat. 上海宝茁教育济南学习中心 - 3 经典英语短文 英语经典短文 经典英语短文 英语经典短文 经典英语短文（版） 经典英语小短文 经典英语短文阅读 经典英语短文背诵 英语告白经典短文（推荐） 经典英语短文改错（定稿）