经典英语必背美文3篇 英语美文背诵50篇.doc

1、经典英语必背美文3篇 英语美文背诵50篇作为西方文化载体的英语，在晚清时期被引入中国学校教育，并逐步由语言教学开展到语言和科学专业教学相结合。下面是WTT带来的经典英语必背美文，!经典英语必背美文篇一The Westhaven E_pressWe have learnt to e_pect that trains will be punctual.After years of pre-conditioning, most of us have developed an unshakable faith in railway time-tables.Ships may be delayed by

2、 storms; air flights may be cancelled because of bad weather; but trains must be on time.Only an e_ceptionally heavy snow fall might temporarily dislocate railway services.It is all too easy to blame the railway authorities when something does go wrong.The truth is that when mistakesoccur, they are

3、more likely to be ours than theirs.After consulting my railway time-table, I noted with satisfaction that there was an e_press train to Westhaven.It went direct from my local station and the journey lasted a mere hour and seventeen minutes.When I boarded the train, I could not help noticing that a g

4、reat many local people got on as well.At the time, this did not strike me as odd.I reflected that there must be a great many people besides myself who wished to take advantage of this e_cellent service.Neither was I surprised when the train stopped at Widley, a tiny station a few miles along the lin

5、e.Even a mighty e_press train can be held up by signals.But when the train dawdled at station after station, I began to wonder.It suddenly dawned on me that this e_press was not roaring down the line at niy miles an hour, but barely chugging along at thirty.One hour and seventeen minutes passed and

6、we had not even covered half the distance.I asked a passenger if this was the Westhaven E_press, but he had not even heard of it.I determined to lodge a plaint as soon as we arrived.Two hours later, I was talking angrily to the station-master at Westhaven.When he denied the train's e_istence, I

7、borrowed his copy of the time-table.There was a note of triumph in my voice when I told him that it was there in black and white.Glancing at it briefly, he told me to look again.A tiny asterisk conducted me to a footnote at the bottom of the page.It said: 'This service has been suspended.'我们

8、已经习惯于相信火车总是准点的。经过多年的适应，大多数人对火车时刻表产生了一种不可动摇的信念。轮船船期可能因风暴而推延，飞机航班可能因恶劣天气而取消，唯有火车必然是准点的。只有非同寻常的大雪才可能暂时打乱铁路运行。因此，一旦铁路上真出了问题，人们便不加思索地责备铁路当局。事实上，过失很可能是我们自己，而不是铁路当局的。我查列车时刻表，满意地理解到有一趟去威斯特海温的快车。这是趟直达车，旅途总共才需1小时17分钟。上车后，我不禁注意到许多当地人也上了车。一开场，我并不感到奇怪，我想除我之外，想利用快车之便的也一定大有人在。火车开出几英里即在一个小站威德里停了下来。对此，我不觉得奇怪，因为即便是特别

9、快车也可能被信号拦住。但是，当火车一站接着一站往前蠕动时，我便产生了疑心。我突然感到这趟快车并没以时速90英里的速度吼叫前进，而是卟哧卟哧地向前爬行，时速仅30英里。1小时17分过去了，走了还不到一半路程。我问一位乘客，这是不是开往威斯特海温的那趟快车，他说从未听说过有这么一趟快车。我决定到目的地就给铁路部门提意见。两小时后，我气呼呼地同威斯特海温站站长说起此事。他说根本没有这趟车。于是我借他本人的列车时刻表，我带着一种成功者的调子告诉他那趟车白纸黑字。明明白白印在时刻表上。他迅速地扫视了一眼，让我再看一遍。一个小小的星形符号把我的目光引到了那页底部一个说明上。上面写着：“此趟列车暂停运行。”

10、经典英语必背美文篇二The first calendarFuture historians will be in a unique position when they e to record the history of our own times.They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadilyaccumulates.What is more they will not have to rely solely on the written word.Films,

11、 gramophone records, and magic tapes will provide them with a bewildering amount of information.They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action.But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few sca

12、nty clues available.Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.Recent s

13、cientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths.The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age, which

14、began about 35,000 B.C.and ended about 10,000 B.C.By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon.It is, in fact, a, primitive type of calendar.I

15、t has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic e_pression.They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing.It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes

16、acpany them.It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.将来的历史学家在写我们这一段历史的时候会别具一格。对于逐渐积累起来的庞大材料，他们几乎不知道选取哪些好，而且，也不必完全依赖文字材料。电影、录像、光盘和光盘驱动器只是能为他们提供令人眼花缭乱的大量信息的几种手段。他们可以身临其境般地观看我们做事，倾听我们讲话。但是，历史学家企图重现遥远的过去可是一项艰巨的任务，他们必须根据现有的不充分的线索进展推理

17、。即使看起来微缺乏道的遗物，也可能提醒人类早期历史的一些有趣的内容。历史学家迄今认为日历是随农业的问世而出现的，因为当时人们面临着理解四季的实际需要，但近期科学研究发现，好似这种假设是不正确的。长期以来，历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。这些痕迹是游牧人留下的，他们生活在从公元前约35，000年到公元前10，000年的冰川期的末期，以狩猎、捕鱼为生。历史学家通过把世界各地留下的这种痕迹放在一起研究，终于弄懂了这种费解的代码。他们发现代码与昼夜更迭和月亮圆缺有关，事实上是一种最原始的日历。大家早就知道，画在墙上的狩猎图景并不是单纯的艺术表

18、现形式，它们有着一定的含义，因为它们已接近古代人的文字形式。有时，这种图画与墙壁上的刻痕共存，它们之间可能有一定的联络。看来人类早就致力于探究四季变迁了，比人们想像的要早20,000年。经典英语必背美文篇三Nothing to worry aboutThe rough road across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had e from.Even though the road was littered with boulders and pi

19、tted with holes,Bruce was not in the least perturbed.Glancing at his map, he informed us that the ne_t village was a mere twenty miles away.It was not that Bruce always underestimated difficulties.He simply had no sense of danger at all.No matter what the conditions were, he believed that a car shou

20、ld be driven as fast as it could possibly go.As we bumped over the dusty track, we swerved to avoid large boulders.The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car.We felt sure that sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine.Because of this, w

21、e kept looking back, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oil and petrol behind us.What a relief it was when the boulders suddenly disappeared, giving way to a stretch of plain where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes.But there was worse to e.Just ahead of us there was a huge fissure.In res

22、ponse to renewed pleadings, Bruce stopped.Though we all got out to e_amine the fissure, heremained in the car.We informed him that the fissure e_tended for fifty yards and was two feet wide and four feet deep.Even this had no effect.Bruce engaged low gear and drove at a terrifying speed, keeping the

23、 front wheels astride the crack as he followed its zig-zag course.Before we had time to worry about what might happen, we were back on the plain again.Bruce consulted the map once more and told us that the village was now only fifteen miles away.Our ne_t obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across.Bruce charged at it, but in the middle,