/html/reading/essay/ 英语阅读[READING] / ESSAY zh-cn Copyright &copy; 2006 <a href=http://www.mmkey.com>文摘园地</a> All Rights Reserved Power by:<a href=http://guoxue.mmkey.com target=_blank>HeadWind</a> hu7789@163.com /html/reading/essay/20070826/8096.html I recently lost my best friend Arnold in an automobile accident while moving my family to our new home in Arizona. Arnold was an 8-month-old pot belly who taught me so much about love, devotion and companionship. I am devastated by his loss, but tha 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8095.html Advice to Youth, About 1882 Mark Twain | 1882 Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature o 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8094.html My Miraculous Family Upon hearing her evaluation I became furious for I thought, Who is she to tell me what I can or cannot do. She does not even know me. I am a very determined and stubborn person! I believe it was at that very moment that I decide 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8093.html Stars on a Snowy Night The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8092.html A Lifetime Friendship Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friends 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8091.html The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8090.html Enormous Debt There was no one quite like my father in our town of Victor. When any other man in town had an extra dollar, he bought a drink; when Father had an extra dollar, he bought a book. Other people had pictures on their walls, or at least a 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8089.html The first memory I have of him of anything, really is his strength. It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours. The unfinished wood floor had large, terrifying holes whose yawning darkness I knew led to nowhere good. His po 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8088.html The Tantrum My mother was a vocal supporter of corporal punishment, but for all her talking she has never spanked my siblings, and me only once. Instead she found ways of punishment that left a more lasting memory then the short sting of a swat on o 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8086.html The Indian Who Could Foretell the Weather Two men were travelling in a very wild and lonely part of America． For days they had not even seen a house， only a few huts made of wood， or tents made of skins． Then one day they met an old Indian who e 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8087.html Inside the Russian Embassy in London a KGB colonel puffed a cigarette as he read the handwritten note for the third time. There was no need for the writer to express regret, he though. Correcting this problem would be easy. He would do that in a mom 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8084.html A friend of mine was giving an English lesson to a class of adult who had recently come to live in the United States. After placing quite a number of everyday objects on a table, he asked various members o f the class to give him the ruler, the book 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8085.html If you have to go to jail, you may as well stay in a place you like. That must have been the reasoning of one Italian man who traveled to another Italian city because he preferred its jail over one in his hometown. According to the Italian news agen 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8083.html In the Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck has achieved an interesting contrapuntal effect by breaking the narrative at intervals with short, impressionistic passages recorded as though by a motion picture camera moving quickly from one scene to another and f 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8082.html Now as a best-selling author of picture books, Jimmy continues to assert control over his life. He works only on projects that inspire him and refuses to let fame limit his freedom. However, as sure as Jimmy is of his own path, he is sensitive that 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8081.html Not even as I shook and trembled uncontrollably in the trenches, did I forget your face. I would sit huddled into the wet mud, terrified, as the hails of bullets and mortars crashed down around me. I would clutch my rifle tightly to my heart, and th 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8080.html Can it really be sixty-two years ago that I first saw you? 我们初次相遇，难道真的是六十二年前吗？ It is truly a lifetime, I know. But as I gaze into your eyes now, it seems like only yesterday that I first saw you, in that small cafe in Hanover Squa 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8079.html The Best Kind of Love 最好的爱 I have a friend who is falling in love. She honestly claims the sky is bluer. Mozart moves her to tears. She has lost 15 pounds and looks like a cover girl. Im young again! she shouts exuberantly. As my friend raves on 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8078.html My Very First Love 我的初恋 Yes this may be surprising, I was only 13 years old that time. But, don't know how or why it happened to me so early. I fell deeply in love with a guy, who I used to think was annoying 2 months ago. It was 1997, in Chitta 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8076.html O Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom? Do you know that all your ancestors felt as you do - and fell victim to trouble and hatred? Do you know, also, that your fervent wishes can o 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8077.html I got an engagement ring for Christmas. My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony. The month of January was spent planning our perfect Alabama June wedding. My 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8075.html The Joy of Living by A.T. Rowe Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask. People who have this joy 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8074.html Silence Is Bliss 寂静的狂欢 Will and Lyra followed the stream into the wood, walking carefully, saying little, until they were in the very center. There was a little clearing in the middle of the grove, which was floored with soft grass and moss cov 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8073.html I Heard the Love 我听到了爱的声音 When I was growing up I do not recall hearing the words I love you from my father. When your father never says them to you when you are a child, it gets tougher and tougher for him to say those words as he gets olde 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8072.html Love Is a Two-way Street 爱是一条双行道 A father sat at his desk poring over his monthly bills when his young son rushed in and announced, Dad, because this is your birthday and youre 55 years old, Im going to give you 55 kisses, one for each year! 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8071.html The Perfect Dog During summer vacations, I would volunteer at the vets, so Id seen a lot of dogs. Minnie was by far the funniest-looking dog Id ever seen. Thin curly hair barely covered her sausage-shaped body. Her bugged-out eyes always seemed surp 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8070.html Attitude The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than wha 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8068.html This is for all the mothers who DIDNT win Mother of the Year last year, all the runners-up and all the wannabes, in- cluding the mothers too tired to enter or too busy to care. This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bleachers 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8069.html A Little Piece of Me When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed. There were pieces of me all over the tidy, tan tiles. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving, explaining it was for the best, I could do better, i 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8067.html Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboys life, a life for someone who wanted no boss. What I did not realize was that it was also a ministry. Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a moving confessional. Passengers clim 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8066.html A Sky Angel 空中天使 In 1978, I became a flight attendant for a major airline. Earning my wings was the culmination of a childhood dream that I had set for myself after my first plane ride at the age of five. Like so many others before me, I fell in 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8065.html Lake Of Autumn I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1)measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8064.html To be or not to be. Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not o 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8063.html To forgive may be divine, but no one ever said it was easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your grudge. But forgiveness is possible -- and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental he 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8061.html Do you know what I like? Summer vacation. I like it because I can go outside to play. If it rains, I can stay inside and play checkers. And this summer my family may go to Beijing, because we have not been there yet. Do you know what I don't like? I 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8062.html What will you do during your vacation? As for me, I can't stand just lying around the house and watching TV all day. What I really want is to go outside for some fun. I love basketball. When I play it, I feel power come from somewhere inside myself. 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8060.html M is for the million things she gave me, M代表她所给予我的无数, O means only that she's growing old, O的意思是她在日渐老去, T is for the tears she shed to save me, T是她为抚育我洒下的泪, H is for her heart of purest gold, H指她有像金子一般的心灵, E 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8059.html A cab driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to impart this kind of training to corporate executives and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride. I had flown int 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8058.html Israel Haimowitz made a deal with his doctor 15 years ago - get me to 100 and I'll buy you a European vacation. On Sept 5, 2002, Haimowitz is celebrating his 100th birthday. And Dr. Robert Drimmer and his wife are looking forward to a trip to London 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8057.html Declarations of undying devotion will flash across Paris's municipal bulletin boards every 20 seconds next month as the French capital invents a new way to say I love you on Valentine's Day. Bertrand Delanoe, the left-wing mayor known for his innova 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8056.html Springs are not always the same. In some years, April bursts upon Virginia hills in one prodigious leap and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnig 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8055.html Companionship of Books man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company,whether it be of books or of men. A goo 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8054.html What day is it today? Is it Tuesday or Thursday? This thought raced through her mind as she sat back with her studentsgoing over the lesson that never seemed to end. Didnt I just do this yesterday? Or was it a year ago? Hell, everything seemed to ju 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8053.html Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me - never so prove its soul - rousing power, its impossibility of statement. Especially in the rendering of one of Beethoven's master septets... I was carried away, seeing, absorbing many wonders. 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8052.html A gray sweater hung limply on Tommy's empty desk, a reminder of the dejected boy who had just followed his classmates from our third-grade room. Soon Tommy's parents, who had recently separated, would arrive for a conference on his failing schoolwor 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8051.html A Woman's Tears Why are you crying?, he asked his Mom. Because I'm a woman, she told him. I don't understand, he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, And you never will. ... Later the little boy asked his father, Why does mother seem to cry for n 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8050.html Les Brown and his twin brother were adopted by Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, shortly after their birth in a poverty-stricken Miami neighborhood. Because of his hyperactivity and nonstop jabber, Les was placed in special education classes f 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8049.html Winston Churchill: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, May 13, 1940 The leadership of Neville Chamberlain proved insufficient during the war, and in May 1940, Winston S. Churchill was appointed Prime Minister of an all-party government. Churchill proved t 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8048.html No Greater Love by John W. Mansur I heard this story when I was in Vietnam, and it was told to me as fact. I have no way of knowing for sure that it is true, but I do know that stranger things have happened in war. Whatever their planned target, the 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8047.html How to Grow Lavender Guess what plant is purple and smells wonderful. You are right! It is lavender, a small and beautiful flower. During my summer vacation, I would like to liven up my garden with lavender. First, I will plant some seeds around the 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8046.html Norah Jones: From Waitress to Superstar A young woman sits down at the piano. Her long flowing brown hair frames a friendly face. And then she begins to sing. Her unexpectedly mature voice captivated everyone in the room. This is Norah Jones, award- 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8044.html Price Of A Miracle Tess was a precocious eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment comp 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8045.html A Lady Named Lill Lillian was a young French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community of River Canard, Ontario. At the age of 16, her father thought Lill has had enough schooling,and she was forced to drop out of school to contribute to th 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8043.html I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs. The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, I want to tell you w 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8042.html SHALL WE CHOOSE DEATH? by Bertrand Russell December 30, 1954 I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, but as a human being, a member of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The worl 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8041.html Packaging 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 persons unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a c 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8040.html Spring Springs are not always the same. In some years, April bursts upon Virginia hills in one prodigious leap and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8039.html The Window Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the rooms only window. The other man had to spen 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8038.html Presents To Mother There was a woman who had three sons. When they had grown up the sons left home went out on their own and prospered years later. Getting back together they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The first 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8037.html My mother taught me... My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE If youre going to kill each other, do it outside - I just finished cleaning! My mother taught me RELIGION You better pray that will come out of the carpet. My mother taught me 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8036.html We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd know better. I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf. I really would. My cherish 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8035.html The Value Of Time The Value Of Time 想知道一整年的价值，就去问留级的学生。 To Realize The Value Of One Year, Ask A Student Who Has Failed His Final Exam. 想知道一个月的价值，就去问曾经早产的母亲。 To Realize The Value Of One Month, Ask A Mother Who 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8033.html A brief act of kindness brings an unexpected insight. I was shopping at a department store and had just boarded the down escalator when I noticed a woman standing to the side. She looked about 65, and her expression told me she was scared. I turned 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8034.html It was a very foggy day in London. The fog was so thick that it was impossible to see more than a foot or so. Buses, cars and taxis were not able to run and were standing by the side of the road. People were trying to find their way about on foot bu 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8032.html A Truly Outstanding Article The trend in everyday conversation is to use grandiose words. Outstanding is new good, amazing is the new OK, and huge is the new big. I was in a restaurant in D.C. last weekend and everything I asked was answered in supe 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8031.html Of Dogs and Men Chester was my window on the mysterious bond between canines and humans. The way I see it dogs had this big meeting. Oh maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meetingan international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8029.html When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8030.html The Road To Happiness It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other wa 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8028.html ( to continue) If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8027.html Courage Mark Twain (Apri1 18, 1908 ) In the matter of courage we all have our limits. There never was a hero who did not have his bounds. I suppose it may be said of Nelson and all the others whose courage has been advertised that there came times i 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8026.html Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail! Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us. -------Sir Thomas Browne 生命是束纯净的火焰，我们依靠自己内心看不见的太阳而存在。 --------托马斯-布朗爵士 ---and see no end to the landscape, 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8025.html Feeling in Snow As soon as I walked outside, I was greeted with the shimmering white blanket of cold. Despite the chill overwhelming my skin, inside I was warm. I felt as though I could be giving off heat; I had the desire to stay out in this freeze 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8024.html Rain of Seattle I've got a deep secret few people understand and even fewer will admit to sharing. It's time to tell the truth: I love the rain, deeply and passionately and more than the sun. At least I live in the right place, famous for its damp w 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8023.html Rain of Seattle ( to continue ) It's a sin around here to not thoroughly enjoy every moment of every golden day. It's embarrassing to answer, Did you get out and enjoy the sunshine this weekend? with No, I stayed inside. Co-workers frown and exchang 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8022.html Feeling tired? Under too much stress? No time to exercise? Well, you may want to try yoga. It's what more and more people have been turning to to ease the troubles of modern life. Practically unheard of in the West until 50 years ago, yoga has becom 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8021.html Remarks by the President on the Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia My fellow Americans, this day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country. At 9:00 a.m. this morning, Mission Control in Houston lost contact with our Space Shuttle Columb 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8019.html 第二封信 My Dear Lin, May Excuse this belated reply to your very kind May Day greetings. It's almost literally a day after the fair. What with fixing the mosquito net, queuing for sweets at the co-op store, fetching and distributing letters, and the 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8020.html 钱钟书是我国博通古今中外的大学问家、作家。学术巨著《管锥篇》博大精深；长篇小说《围城》脍炙人口。他还是《毛泽东选集》英译本定稿人。为了使读者进一步欣赏钱钟书的英语文采，现把钱钟书给林书武的三封英语信刊登出来，边加汉译，同时，做些必要的注解，以飨读者 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8018.html 第三封信 My Dear Lin, I am deeply grateful, but I have smiting of conscience. As you know, I have my own ration of sugar, and I must not deprive you of yours. As to the dim sum, a healthy young man has more need of them to stay his hunger between th 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8017.html Is there really a Santa Claus? 现在，圣诞老人依然会在圣诞节前夜给表现良好的孩子们送来玩具和礼物。有时，孩子们会对圣诞老人产生怀疑，很想知道是不是真的有圣诞老人。1897年，一名叫Virginia O'Hanlon的小女孩就心中的这一疑问给纽约太阳报写了一封信。对于这样 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8016.html Bradley's Silent Night Bradley was very sad. It was Christmas Eve, and Dad wasn't home like he had promised. Christmas just couldn't be the same without him. But Christmas is the time of miracles! Bradley sat by the window and stared at the quiet st 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8014.html ( to continue ) Knock, knock. said Brian. Hello, I'm Joseph and this is my wife Mary. We have been traveling all day and we are both very tired. All the other hotels are full. Do you have any room for us at your hotel? I'm sorry sir, but I am comple 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8015.html ( to continue) The children quickly dressed and got in the car. Mom drove cautiously through the snow and the children wondered what she was going to show them. It was the same route they drove for their music lessons but then Mom turned down a diff 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8013.html (to continue ) Mom, what do we do? whispered Emily. We're excited! said Mom. We look for the stable and find Jesus in the manger just like the angel said. Then we tell everyone about what we saw. Listen everyone! I'm a very excited shepherd! I heard 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8011.html This is Glamis Castle. It is often remembered for being the residence of King Macbeth and Queen Elizabeth in her childhood. Among the most assiduous guests here are the inevitable ghosts, which are nourished, if not actually created, by ancient popu 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8012.html Experiencing Scotland Scotland is a unique and austere place, laden with history, where you can find aristocratic palaces and castles, as well as the traditional parades in national costumes. It has some of the most beautiful cities in Europe, a liv 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8010.html Skateboarding: the Coolest Sport Skateboarding is one of the most popular sports in the world. Here are some of the reasons why. DANGEROUS Everyone likes to feel brave now and again. Skateboarding can be very dangerous. It's fast and you really have 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8009.html Do Americans have any morals? That's a good question. Many people insist that ideas about right and wrong are merely personal opinions. Some voices, though, are calling Americans back to traditional moral values. William J. Bennett, former U. S. Sec 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8008.html Just for Today Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8007.html When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books. 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Many brides have been asked on their respective wedding days if they have gathered something old,new,borrowed and blue to ca 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/8000.html Moon in Chinese Celestial Cosmology The choice of the festival's theme -- celebrating the glories and mysteries of the moon -- was a natural. Along with the sun, the moon has long been an object of human curiosity and worship. It is probable that su 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/7999.html Different Celebrated Forms For thousands of years, the Chinese people have related the vicissitudes of life to changes of the moon as it waxes and wanes; joy and sorrow, parting and reunion. Because the full moon is round and symbolizes reunion, the 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/7998.html Legend of Chang-Er, the Moon Goddess The story begins around 2170 B.C. after the great flood in the Hsia dynasty. Yu, king of many kingdoms, was credited with stopping the flood, and with teaching farmers how to cultivate their fields, thus commenci 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网 /html/reading/essay/20070826/7997.html Waiting for the Breeze No air conditioning? How can you sleep? a friend asks, horrified. I've just revealed that my family has decided to shut the air conditioner off to save money. Nobody opens a window, day or night, warns another friend, whose wi 2007-01-30 ESSAY 英语散文 英语文摘网