初中晨读英语美文
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初中晨读英语美文篇一：晨读英语美文60篇
Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture ................................................................................... 1
The beauty industry .............................................................................................................................. 2
Holiday Headache ................................................................................................................................... 2
Arthritis all-clear for high heels ..................................................................................................... 3
Disney World ............................................................................................................................................. 4
Secrets to a Great Life ......................................................................................................................... 5
The 50-Percent Theory of Life ......................................................................................................... 6
The Road to Happiness ........................................................................................................................ 7
Six Famous Words .................................................................................................................................. 8
Write Your Own Life .............................................................................................................................. 8
Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture
A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the Avenue de L'Opera.
It is the first Starbucks cafe to boldly go where no Starbucks has gone before, onto potentially hostile French territory.
Its advertising posters on the Champs Elysee announce "Starbucks - a passion pour le cafe".
But is the company aware of the risk it is taking by challenging the very birthplace of cafe society?
"I think every time we come into a new market we do it with a great sense of respect, a great deal of interest in how that cafe society has developed over time," Bill O'Shea of Starbucks says.
"We recognise there is a huge history here of cafe society and we have every confidence we can enjoy, augment and join in that passion."
And he may be right. Despite some sniffiness in the French press, some younger French are expressing their excitement that they will finally be able to visit the kind of cafe they love to watch on the US TV series Friends.
In fact, for some, it is an exotic rarity, far more exciting than the average French cafe. Melissa, aged 18, says she can hardly wait: "I love Starbucks caramel coffee - it's very good and I like the concept that they're opening in Paris. I think Starbucks will be OK for French people."
An American tourist is equally excited when she spots the sign - this could be just the thing to help her get over the occasional twinge of homesickness.
"I love the French cafes, but Starbucks is so popular in the States and it's become part of American culture and now it's come to France, and that's OK," she said.
But that is the problem for many French, who do not want France to be just like the rest of the world: with standardised disposal cups of coffee - identical in 7,000 branches around the world - even if they are termed handcrafted beverages.
At the traditional cafes, customers worry that the big US coffee house chains could drive out small, family-owned cafes.
Others here think they could come round to the idea of Starbucks, though for them it would never replace the corner cafe or the typical Parisian petit noir coffee.
The beauty industry
The one American industry unaffeted by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump--about three million pounds a week. These facts and figures are 'official', and can be accepted as being substantially true.
The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, as we have seen, they have not suffered.Women are retrenching on other things than their faces.
Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hithero reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. The fortunes are made justly by face-cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, by the sellers of rubber reducing-belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen.
It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indisinguishable, at future picture shows, from the Portrai of the Artist's Daughter. The success is part due to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, and in part due to impoved health. So for some people, the campaign for more beauty is also a compaign for more health. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of heslth is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing. Every middle-in-come preson can afford the cosmetic apparatus and more knowledge of the way in which real herlth can be achieved is being universally aced upon. When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features? The answer is apparent: No,for real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self.
Holiday Headache
All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect.
So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it appeared on the shelves of my local bookstore, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words “Maine log cabin rental”at altavista.com, I was stepping into 48 hours of Internet hell. Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued to my computer for hours clicking from one listing to another to find the perfect hideaway.
I was wrong. The first site that I tried, cyberrentals.com, grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding, places as Seal Cove or Owl’s Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings.Another site, vacationspot.com, let me find 50 cabins and cottages right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter.
I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. One day and hundreds of listings later, I was ready to throw my computer out the window. For every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good and more often than not, it was booked, too far away, or outrageously priced. Searching on line was really giving me a headache.I finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way at a bookstore. I bought a paperback book called America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels. I was relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place.
Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $100 a night. Guess what? It didn’t have a Website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain price. It wasn’t a log cabin, and it was far from the woods, but there were lace curtains, a hardwood floor and a quilt on the bed. With the ocean outside our window and a fireplace in the room, my holiday was just as cozy as I dreamed it would be.
Arthritis all-clear for high heels
Fears that wearing high-heeled shoes could lead to knee arthritis are
unfounded,sayresearchers.
But being overweight,smoking,and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk,the team from Oxford Brookes Universtity found.
They looked at more than 100 women aged between 50 and 70 waiting for knee surgery, and found that choice of shoes was not a factor
The study was published in the Journal of Epidemilology and public health.
More than 2% of the population aged over 55 suffers extreme pain as a result of osteoarthrits of the knee.
The condition is twice as common in 65-year-old women as it is in men of the same age. Women's and men's knees are not biologically different, so the reserachers wanted to find out why twice as many women as men develop osteoarthritis in the joint.
Some researchers have speculated tha high-heeled shoes maybe to blame.
The women in the study were quizzed on details of their height and weight when they left school, between 36 and 40 and between 51 and 55.
They were asked about injuries, their jobs, smoking and use of contraceptive hormones. Howere, while many of these factors were linked to an increased risk over the years was not.
The researchers wrote:"Most of the women had been exposed to high heeled shoes over the years-nevertheless, a consistent finding was a reduced risk of osteoarthritis of the knee.
There was an even more pronounced link between regular dancing in three-inch heels and a reduced risk of knee problems.
The researchers described this finding as "surprising", but said that they would not expect a larger-scale study to overturn their findings.
Disney World
Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers 24.4 thousand acres, and is twice the size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1 1971, five years after Walt Disney’s death, and it is a larger, slightly more ambitious version of Disneyland near Los Angeles.
Foreigners tend to associate Walt Disney with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and with his other famous cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
There is very little that could be called vulgar in Disney World. It attracts people of most tastes and most income groups, and people of all ages, from toddlers to grandpas. There are two expensive hotels, a golf course, forest trails for horseback riding and rivers for canoeing. But the central attraction of the resort is the MagicKingdom.
Between the huge parking lots and the MagicKingdom lies a broad artificial lake. In the distance rise the towers of Cinderella’s Castle. Even getting to the MagicKingdom is quite an adventure. You have a choice of transportation. You can either cross the lake on a replica of a Mississippipaddlewheeler, or you can glide around the shore in a streamlined monorail train.
When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square which faces Main Street. Main Street is late 19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the facades are of the period. There are hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and
there is no traffic except a horse-drawn streetcar and an ancient double-decker bus. Yet as you walk through the MagicKingdom, you are actually walking on top of a network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all other material needs of the MagicKingdom are invisibly supplied.
Secrets to a Great Life
A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your ti
A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!
1. S—Simplify.
A great life is the result of simplifying your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.
2. E—Effort.
A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It means looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.
3. C—Create Priorities.
A great life is the result of creating priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that’s important to you. Make sure you are honoring your priorities.
4. R—Reserves.
A great life is the result of having reserves—reserves of things, time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.
5. E—Eliminate distractions.
A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Look around at someone’s life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.
6. T—Thoughts.
初中晨读英语美文篇二：晨读英语美文100篇
星火书业 晨读英语美文100篇六级
Passage 1. knowledge and Virtue
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humilitynor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University.I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.
Passage 2. “Packing” a Person
A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment, so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely. A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time. If you still enjoy life's exuberance enough to retain self-confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life which now arrives at a complacent stage of serenity indifferent to fame or wealth. There is no need to
resort to hair-dyeing； the snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder's company is like reading a thick book of deluxe edition that fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part with. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity establishes its brand by the right packaging.
Passage 3. Three Passions I Have Lived for
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy.
[00:47.70]I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness
[00:52.19]—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness
[00:57.46]looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.
[01:04.12]I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen,
[01:10.02]in a mystic miniature,
[01:11.89]the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
[01:17.90]This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life,
[01:23.92]this is what—at last—I have found.
[01:28.08]With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
[01:32.12]I have wished to understand the hearts of men.
[01:36.06]I have wished to know why the stars shine ...
[01:40.44]A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
[01:45.37]Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.
[01:53.35]But always pity brought me back to earth.
[01:56.96]Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.
[02:01.67]Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people
[02:08.23]—a hated burden to their sons,
[02:10.97]and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
[02:19.28]I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
[02:25.73]This has been my life.
[02:28.36]I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again
[02:32.52]if the chance were offered me.
[00:01.43]Passage 4. A Little Girl
[00:05.59]Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl.
[00:14.23]With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing,
[00:19.37]while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud
[00:24.08]that hovered like a golden feather above her head.
[00:28.56]The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair,
[00:35.01]gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black.
[00:43.26]So completely absorbed was she in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation seemed addressed,
[00:52.40]that she did not observe me when I rose and went towards her.
[00:57.00]Over her head, high up in the blue,
[01:00.50]a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy cloud was singing, as if in rivalry.
[01:07.09]As I slowly approached the child,
[01:10.05]I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl,
[01:16.28]and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely.
[01:22.19]Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet,
[01:27.33]were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way,
[01:33.25]and these matched in hue her eyebrows,
[01:36.53]and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering in the sunlight.
[01:42.43]All this I did not take in at once;
[01:45.28]for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face.
[01:53.26]Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth,
[01:59.06]grew upon me as I stood silently gazing.
[02:02.45]Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty.
[02:09.79]Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me.
[00:00.87]Passage 5 Declaration of Independence
[00:07.00]When in the Course of human events,
[00:10.39]it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
[00:15.75]which have connected them with another,
[00:17.93]and to assume among the powers of the earth,
[00:21.22]the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
[00:28.33]a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
[00:32.16]requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
[00:38.08]We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
[00:44.74]that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
[00:50.21]that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
初中晨读英语美文篇三：晨读英语美文100篇
《晨读英语美文100篇》的读书心得
拟写：杨静
教师，作为一种职业，承担着传播人类思想文化的重任，在人类社会发展中起着桥梁和纽带作用。随着新课程改革的实施，教师“一言堂”已全盘否定，学生是学习的主体，教师是学生学习过程中的引导者，教师要成为研究者、专家和名师。因此，和众多教师一样，自己显得尴尬和无奈：如年龄增长、职称评聘的激烈竞争和各种关系复杂;知识更新速度加快，原有知识结构和教学理念不能适应教学需要等。因此，压力增大，精神疲惫，对所从事的工作失去兴趣，无成就感;对事业缺乏热情和创新，安于现状，得过且过等。
但读完《晨读英语美文100篇》这本书后，我被书中字里行间流露着的教师对教育事业的热情，散发着的教师智慧的光芒，名师们高尚的人格魅力深深地打动着，心灵得到了净化，人格得到了完善，理念得到了更新。从中领会了许多知识，让我获得了许多感悟。
一、博大而炽热的爱，在爱中不断认识自我
名言说：“热爱是最好的老师。”是的，对于教师来说，爱是不可须臾成缺的，只有以挚爱奠基，教师才会倾尽精力，激活智慧，把自己的全部热情，甚至生命献给他所热爱的事业和学生。名师魏书生认为：埋怨环境不好，常常是我们不好，埋怨别人太狭隘，常常我们自己不豁达，埋怨学生不好教，常常是我们的方法太少。众多的成功者一再告诉我们，不管处于什么样的处境，只要你有奋斗不息，追求不止的精神，你就会自觉地去改变自己把外在的压力转化成巨大的动力，不断地学习，引千道清泉、集百家之长提升自己、充实自己。“捧着一颗心来，不带半根草去。”陶行知先生的这句话，标示了有效教师高尚的师德境界。爱因斯坦说过：“热爱是最好的老师，它往往胜过责任。”教育尤其需
要热情，需要爱，没有爱就没有教育，没有博大而炽热的爱，就不能成就有效教师。古今中外的名师们都是在以德之教，以身示范的教育过程中站立起来的，都是在无私奉献、无私的爱中不断认识自我。
二、在不泯的童心面前，时刻警醒自我
有效教师们都有一颗不泯的童心，他们总是保持着真诚、热情、乐观和积极，他们十分乐意与学生一起活动，一起游戏，一同欢笑，一同烦恼，钱梦龙老师说：教师只有始怀着一颗“赤子之心”，才能以自己的心去发现学生的心。斯霞老师直到七八十岁高龄还在与不学生亲切密接触，谭迪敖老师整天与学生一起沉浸于小发明之中，多年如一日，乐此不疲。试问他们又怎么不会成为学生的良师益友?学生又怎么会不亲其师信其道呢?
“多改变自己，少埋怨环境”是魏书生老师总结的涵养性情的一条法则。有效教师给予我的启示便是教师要以平稳的情绪和愉快的心境投入工作，善于营造亲切、和谐的愉快的教育气氛，使学生进入最佳的学习状态，激发他们生动、活泼、主动的学习与发展。在今后的工作中，以名师们为榜样，努力成为学生的良师益友。
三、在学习与反思中，不断发展自我
陶行知先生早就说过：“教师必须天天学习，天天进行再教育，才能有教学之乐而无教学之苦。”只有学而不厌的先生，才能教出学而不厌的学生。可见要成为有效教师对于学习的至关重要要有深刻认识，要把学习作为自身发展、胜任教学的需要。
美国心理学家波斯纳提出：“如果一个教师仅仅满足于获得经验而不对经验深入的思考，那么既便是有20年的教学经验，也许只是一年工作的20次重复，除非善于从经验反思中吸取教益，否则就不可能有什么改进，永远停留在一个
新手型教师的水准上。”他给出了一个教师成长的简洁公式：教师成长=经验+反思。它清楚地揭示了一个教师的成长过程离不开不断的反思。反思不仅仅是头脑内部的想一想，他是一个不断实践、学习、研究的过程，是自己与自己、自己与他人的深层次的对话，要想成为一名有效教师，扎实苦干的精神和态度是基础，而学会不断地自我反思则是发展自我的必由之路。
四、在合作交流中，不断提高自我
新课程标准非常明确地把“合作交流”作为营造新课堂氛围和培养不宪政的重要目标。作为教师更重要懂得合作交流的重要意义。开敞胸襟，乐于交流句通，不孤芳自赏、不自我封闭。与学生亲密交往、平等对话、真诚交流，同事之间、上下级之间埋诚相对，相互扶持。教师的成长离不开身边的长者、名师的指名和帮助，团结的力量大，集体的智慧永远大于个体。
豁然大度，宽以待人，不斤斤计较，不“同行相轻”也同样是一名有效教师应具备的条件。一位特级教师总结自己的待人之道是：“念人之功，容人之过，学人之长，补己之短。”多么豁达的胸怀，剖析许多名师的成长经历，是我们前进的灯塔，沿着名师的足迹，不断的自我反思，不断提升，在合作交流中不断提高自我。
总之，做一个“有效的”教师，实施有效的教学，是所有教师应有的追求。
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