初中英语美文100篇

初中英语美文100篇 篇一:初中英语短文100篇1 1 Dogs People 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 been 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 and 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， 1 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 Work A bank robber 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'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? 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 2 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 软件系统测试报告下载sgs报告如何下载关于路面塌陷情况报告535n,sgs报告怎么下载竣工报告下载 :“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 the time of today! grain 粮食wealth 财富 victory 胜利 seize 抓住，把握 3 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 Match A rich woman is so proud of a valuable antique vase that she decides to have her bedroom painted the 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 turns the business over to his son. Dad,asks the son, there's something I've got to know. How did you get those walls to match the vase so perfectly? Son,” the father replies, I painted the vase. proud of 自豪 valuable 值钱的antique vase 古董花 瓶 paint 用油漆漆 4 satisfy 满意 eventually 最终 confident 有信心的 retire 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100篇 英语阅读理解 【001】 Little Tom down the street calls our dog The 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. 5 Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk. We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. 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 is? It 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 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! 1.The writer and Mary didn't know______. A. what Zip's first present was B. how Zip carried its first present home C. who owned Zip's first presentD. what Zip's first present was made of 2.Tom calls Zip the keep dog because ______. A. the dog likes keeping things B. the dog likes playing with shoes 6 C. he doesn't know the dog's name D. he can't pronounce the word sheep well 3.What made the shoe strange was ______. A. its colour B. its smellC. its size D. that it was a silk one 4.The word keepin the last sentence means _____ A. keeping things for itself B. bringing things for other to keep C. not letting it run about D. taking care of a small child 5.We can know from the reading that the dog _____. A. likes to give presents to peopleB. has been kept in at the writer's home C. has brought some trouble D. likes to be called the keep dog 【002】 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 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 7 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 lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “I am sorry, young man, but I don’t like planes and I am never going to fly again. But I’ll say one thing, ”She continued kindly, “You and your wife keep your plane very clean!” 1. An old lady had _________ . A. glassesB. a blanket over her head C. a coat D. a basket 2. A. She didn’t want to ________ . A. take it offB. turn it offC. get on D. talk about it 3. _________ spoke to her . A. The air hostess B. The man next to her C. her husband D. one of her friends 4. The old lady had never been _________ before . A. abroadB. homeC. in a planeD. in hospital 5. The woman didn’t like planes and she was never going ________ . A. to fly againB. to travelC. to go abroadD. to go home 【003】 8 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 yet. 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 hotel 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 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 9 1. Dick flew to New York because ___. A. he went there for a holiday B. he had work there C. he went there for sightseeing (观光) D. his home was there 2. Why did his wife want a telegram from him? A. Because she didn't know his address yet B. Because she wanted to go to New York, too C. Because she might send him another telegram D. Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York 3. Where did Dick stay in New York? A. In the center of the city.B. In a hotel. C. In a restaurant. D. At his friend's house. 4. Who would send him the name and address of his hotel? A. The manager (经理) of his hotel.B. The police office. C. The taxi driver. D. His wife. 5. Which of the following is not true? A. 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. 【004】 10 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 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 1. Bob and Jim once worked in different factories. 2. One day Jim borrowed ten dollars from Bob. 3. Jim paid back the money to Bob and went to work in another town later. 4. Bob hadn't seen Jim for a year when he learned that Jim was in another town. 【005】 I think the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is getting up in the morning. He is almost sick when my mother calls, Herbert! It's seven o'clock! Get up! 11 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 usually 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 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'll learn to get up on time, but I really don't think so. True or False 1. The most terrible thing in life for my little brother is going to school. 2. I'm not like my brother because I like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. 3. I usually jump out of bed and go into the bathroom for 12 a shower before my mother calls. 4. When mother calls, Herbert doesn't answer and remains in bed. 5. My mother often has to go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up. 6. Sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake Herbert up. 7. The writer thinks some day Herbert will learn to get up on time. 【006】 In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience (经历) four seasons in one d ay. 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 late afternoon 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 will see that some English 13 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. 1. Why do people in England often talk about the weather? A. Because they may have four seasons in one day B. Because they often have very good weather C. Because the weather is warm just like in spring D. Because the sky is sunny all day 2. From the story we know that when _________come, there is a heavy rain. A. sunshine and snow B. black clouds C. summer and winterD. spring and autumn 3. People can also have summer in winter. Means it is sometimes too ______in winter. A. warm B. cool C. coldD. rainy 4. 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 England C. they are going to sell them D. they are their favourite things 14 5. The best title (标题)for this passage is ________. A. Bad Seasons B. Summer or Winter C. The Weather in England D. Strange English People 【007】 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 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 out and looked at it every now and then. 篇三: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 15 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. 16 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 17 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 18 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. 19 [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, 20 [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. 21 [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 22 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. 23