初中英语美文100篇

1、精选word文档 下载可编辑初中英语美文1篇篇一初中英语短文1篇11 dogspeople often say that a dog is man's best friend. over thousands of years, man has taught his dogs to do many kinds of work besides guarding the home. for example, sheepdogs are famous for their ability to control a flock of hundreds of sheep.dogs have bee

2、n used to aid disabled people for centuries. a guide dog can lead its blind owner. nowadays, dogs can be taught to turn on light switches, open refrigerator doors and dial the telephone for their disabled owners. for the majority of people, however, dogs are simply pets and friends for both young an

3、d old members of the family.guard 看守，看护 sheepdog 牧羊犬 flock 群 aid 帮助disabled 残疾人 century 世纪guide dog 导盲犬 dial 拨 majority 大多数狗人们总是说狗是人类最好的朋友。几千年来，除了看家外，人类还教会了狗去做许多其他的事，例如，牧羊犬就因其可以控制数百只羊的羊群而出名。狗用来帮助残疾人已有好几个世纪了。导盲犬可以为盲主人引路。现在，人们还教狗为残疾主人打开电灯、开冰箱和拨电话。然而，对于大多数人来说，狗只是家里老人和孩子们的宠物和朋友。2 detective worka bank ro

4、bber stole a lot of money. he was caught and sent to prison, but the money was never found. when he came out of prison, they watched him to see what he would do. here is the detective, reporting to the inspector. yes, sir, i found johnny . i followed him all around the town, but frankly, i couldn&ap

5、os;t make anything out of what he bought. here's the list.shirt , heavy crowbar, box of chocolates , shovel, heavy hammer, bunch of flowers .the inspector said, good. that helps me a lot. do you remember how we watched him helping his neighbour, old mrs. judson to cover her backyard with cement

6、detective 侦探的侦探 robber 强盗，盗贼 prison 监狱inspector 检察官 frankly 坦白地，真诚地 crowbar 铁撬，撬棒shovel 铲，铁铲 hammer 铁锤，锤子 backyard 后院 cement 水泥侦探工作一个盗贼从银行偷了很多钱。他被抓住送到监狱，但是钱没找到。当他从监狱出来时，他被监视，看他会做什么。这不，侦探正向检察官报告“是的，先生，我发现了强尼阿米塔基，我跟着他转遍了全镇，但坦白说，我不能从他买的东西中推断出什么。这里是清单。” 衬衫、大铁撬、一盒巧克力铁铲、大铁锤、一束花 。检察官说“好，这对我很有帮助。你还记得我们看到他是怎

7、么帮他的邻居，贾德森老太太用水泥铺院子的吗？”3 what is time （nursery rhyme）time is grain for peasants.time is wealth for workers.time is life for doctors.time is victory for soldiers.time is knowledge for students.time is speed for scientists.time is money for businessmen.time is everything for all of us.therefore, seize

8、 the time of today!grain 粮食wealth 财富 victory 胜利 seize 抓住，把握时间是什么（童谣一首）对农民来说，时间就是粮食。对工人来说，时间就是财富。对医生来说，时间就是生命。对士兵来说，时间就是胜利。对学生来说，时间就是知识。对科学家来说，时间就是速度。对企业家来说，时间就是金钱。对我们大家来说，时间就是一切。因此，把握今天!4 perfect matcha rich woman is so proud of a valuable antique vase that she decides to have her bedroom painted th

9、e same colour as the vase. several painters try to mix the colour right, but none comes close enough to satisfy the woman.eventually, a painter comes. he is confident that he can mix the proper colour. the woman is pleased with the result, and the painter becomes famous. years later, he retires and

10、turns the business over to his son. dad,asks the son, there's something i've got to know. how did you getthose walls to match the vase so perfectlyson,” the father replies, i painted the ud of 自豪 valuable 值钱的antique vase 古董花瓶 paint 用油漆漆satisfy 满意 eventually 最终 confident 有信心的 retire

11、 退休match 和相配绝配一个有钱的妇人感到非常骄傲，因为她有一只值钱的古董花瓶，她决定把她的卧室漆成和花瓶一样的颜色。好几个油漆匠试图调出正确的颜色，但是没有一个人调出的颜色能让妇人满意。最后，来了一个油漆匠。他很有信心可以调出合适的颜色。果然妇人对最终的效果感到满意，漆匠也因此成名。几年后，漆匠退休了，他把生意交给了儿子。“爸爸，”儿子问，“有件事我想知道。你是如何调配出和花瓶一样的颜色的？” “儿子，”父亲回答，“我把花瓶也一起漆了。”5 a barbecue篇二初中英语阅读1篇英语阅读理解【1】little tom down the street calls our dog the

12、keep dog.zip is a sheep dog. but when tom tries to say seep, it comes out keep. and in a way tom is right. zip is always bringing things hoem for us to keep! i'll tell you about some of them.zip's first present was a shoe. it was made of green silk.we didn't know how zip found the sho

13、e. but after a moment mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. i nodded(点头)and held my nose. what do you think it isit smells like something for cleaning. i think someone tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. then he put it at the door to dry.along came zip. and good-bye shoe! i

14、 said.we should take it back.we can't .said my sistter.maybe little tom is right, mary said. maybe zip is a keep dog!the writer and mary didn't know_.a. what zip's first present was b. how zip carried its first present homec. who owned zip's first presentd. what zip's first

15、present was made oftom calls zip the keep dog because _.a. the dog likes keeping things b. the dog likes playing with shoesc. he doesn't know the dog's name d. he can't pronounce the word sheep wellwhat made the shoe strange was _.a. its colour b. its smellc. its size d. that it was a

16、 silk onethe word keepin the last sentence means _a. keeping things for itself b. bringing things for other to keepc. not letting it run about d. taking care of a small childwe can know from the reading that the dog _.a. likes to give presents to peopleb. has been kept in at the writer's homec.

17、 has brought some trouble d. likes to be called the keep dog【2】an old lady in a plane had a blanket（毯子）over her head and she did not want to take it off . the air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, “i have never been in a plane before , and i am frightened. i am going to keep this blanket

18、over my head until we are back on the ground again !”then the captain came. he said, “madam, i am the captain of this plane. the weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well. ”but she continued to hide.so the captain turned and started to go back. then the old l

19、ady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “i am sorry, young man, but i dont like planes and i am never going to fly again. but ill say one thing, ”she continued kindly, “you and your wife keep your plane very clean!” an old lady had _ .a. glassesb. a blanket over her head c. a co

20、at d. a basket a. she didnt want to _ .a. take it offb. turn it offc. get on d. talk about it _ spoke to her .a. the air hostess b. the man next to her c. her husband d. one of her friends the old lady had never been _ before .a. abroadb. homec. in a planed. in hospital the woman didnt like planes a

21、nd she was never going _ .a. to fly againb. to travelc. to go abroadd. to go home【3】dick lived in england. one day in january he said to his wife, i'm going to fly to new york next week because i've got some work there. where are you going to stay there his wife asked. i don't know ye

22、t. dick answered. please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报), his wife said. all right, dick answered.he flew to new york on january 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. he put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. he put the address of his hot

23、el in it.in the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. he came out at nine o'clock and said, now i'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner.he found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, where do you want to go but dick didn't remember the name and address of

24、 his hotel.which hotel are my things in he said, and what am i going to do tonight but the driver of the taxi did not know. so dick got out and went into a post office. there he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, please send me my address at this post office.choose the right answer

25、dick flew to new york because _.a. he went there for a holiday b. he had work therec. he went there for sightseeing (观光) d. his home was there why did his wife want a telegram from hima. because she didn't know his address yet b. because she wanted to go to new york, tooc. because she might sen

26、d him another telegramd. because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in new york where did dick stay in new yorka. in the center of the city.b. in a hotel.c. in a restaurant. d. at his friend's house. who would send him the name and address of his hotela. the manager (经理) of his hote

27、l.b. the police office.c. the taxi driver. d. his wife. which of the following is not truea. dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city.b. dick didn't work on the first night of his arrival.c. dick forgot to send his wife a telegram.d. dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi.【4

28、】bob and jim once worked in the same factory. one day, bob lent jim ten dollars, but then jim left his work and went to work in another town without paying back the money.bob didn't see jim for a year, and then he knew from another friend that jim was in another town and staying at a hotel. so

29、he went there to see him late in the evening.when he got to jim's room, he saw his shoes near the door. well, he must be in, he thought, and knocked again, and said, i know you are in, jim. your shoes are out here. i've gone out in my boots, answered jim.true or false bob and jim once work

30、ed in different factories. one day jim borrowed ten dollars from bob. jim paid back the money to bob and went to work in another town later. bob hadn't seen jim for a year when he learned that jim was in another town.【5】i think the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is getting up

31、 in the morning. he is almost sick when my mother calls, herbert! it's seven o'clock! get up!herbert answers, i'm coming! and goes right back to sleep. i'm not at all like my brother. i don't like to go to bed at night but i don't mind getting up in the morning. i usual

32、ly wake up before my mother calls me. i jump out of bed and go into the bathroom to take a shower. i get dressed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get ready to go downstairs for breakfast as soon as my mother calls.but not herbert. he just sleeps. a military band (军乐队) in our bedroom could not wake

33、 him up. i call him and say, get up! mum will be up here to pull you out of bed if you don't get up immediately!but he just sleeps. after calling a few more times my mother has to come upstairs and pull herbert out of bed. it's that way every day with my little brother. perhaps some day he

34、'll learn to get up on time, but i really don't think so.true or false the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is going to school. i'm not like my brother because i like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. i usually jump out of bed and go into th

35、e bathroom for a shower before my mother calls. when mother calls, herbert doesn't answer and remains in bed. my mother often has to go upstairs and pull herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up. sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake herbert up. the writer thinks some day herb

36、ert will learn to get up on time.【6】in england, people often talk about the weather because they can experience (经历) four seasons in one day. in the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. an hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard. the weather gets a little cold. in the lateaft

37、ernoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will be summer at this time of a day.in england, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. so in winter they can swim sometimes, and in summer sometimes they should take warm clothes.when you go to england, you

38、will see that some english people usually take an umbrella (伞)or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them. if you don't take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret (后悔) later in the day. why do people in england often talk about the weathera. because they

39、may have four seasons in one dayb. because they often have very good weatherc. because the weather is warm just like in springd. because the sky is sunny all day from the story we know that when _come, there is a heavy rain.a. sunshine and snow b. black cloudsc. summer and winterd. spring and autumn

40、 people can also have summer in winter. means it is sometimes too _in winter.a. warm b. cool c. coldd. rainy in the sunny morning some english people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because _.a. their friends ask them to do so b. it often rains in englandc. they are going to sell th

41、em d. they are their favourite things the best title (标题)for this passage is _.a. bad seasons b. summer or winterc. the weather in england d. strange english people【7】mr brown was going away for a week. before he left, he said to his son, if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has

42、been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea.ok, dad, said his son. but he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. his son put it into his small pocket, took it

43、 out and looked at it every now and then.篇三晨读英语美文1篇星火书业 晨读英语美文1篇六级passage knowledge and virtueknowledge 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 co

44、mmand 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 cour

45、teous bearing in the conduct of lifethese 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 th

46、e 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

47、 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 wit

48、h 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 “packing” a persona person, like a commodity, needs packaging. but going too far

49、 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

50、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,

51、 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

52、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 toresort to hair-dyei

53、ng； 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 eld

54、er'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 three passions i have lived

55、forthree 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 ecstasyecstasy so great that i would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy.:47i have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness:519that terribl