小学生英语课外阅读故事(五篇)

小学生英语课外阅读故事（五篇）时间很重要：As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some commonintestinal(肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic.As the alcoholism progressed, AL began to lose everything he possessed -- his land, house, etc. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Al's death, I thought, "What a totally wasted life! What a complete failure! "As time went by , I began to revalue my earlier rough judgement . I knew Al's now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring , most loving men I have ever known.I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere .I hadn't heard Ernie talked much about his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person.Ernie said quietly, "As a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, "love you, son."Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been afool to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his best love.【篇二】小学生英语课外阅读故事孔子马逸：The horse of Confucius1's chariot escaped to the farmer's field and ate the crop during the rest time. The farmer kept the horse in custody2.The eloquent3（有口才的） Zi Gong went to argue with the farmer, but out of his expectation, the farmer would not listen to him.At that time another farmer who had just come to study under Confucius came over and said to the former farmer, "You don't cultivate4 land by the east sea, and I don't farm by the west sea. Since we are so close to each other, it is impossible to prevent my horse from eating your crop."Hearing this, the former farmer became delighted, and said to the second farmer, "What you said is quite right, making much more sense than the person person before you!" So he gave the horse to him right away.【篇三】小学生英语课外阅读故事拔苗助长：Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who planted a plot of rice. After he planted the seedlings, every day he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day, but still, he thought they were growing too slowly.Eventually he got impatient with the young plants andsuddenly he hit upon an idea that one by one, he pulled upthe young plants by half an inch. The next early morning, the young man couldn't wait to check his "achievement", but hewas heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants dying.【篇四】小学生英语课外阅读故事束媪乞火：There was a daughter-in-law who liked by the old women in the village.One night, a piece of meat was missing from the daughter-in-law's home, and her mother-in-law suspected that she had stolen it. So he decided1 to drive her out to her mother's home.The next morning, the daughter-in-law bided2 farewell toall the old women in the village, and told them what happened. After hearing this, all the people were indignant.One of them went to found some broken hemp3 and made a bundle. Then she went to the daughter-in-law's home and asked her mothering-law for kindling4, "Last night, a flock of dogs fought each other for a piece of meat that they had found somewhere, one of them died in the fight, so I came to borrowsome kindling to cook that dog." Upon hearing this, the mother-in-law sent people to ask her daughter-in-law back right away.【篇五】小学生英语课外阅读故事狮子与报恩的老鼠：When a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down beside him. This soon wakened the lion. He was very angry, and caught the mouse in his paws."Forgive me, please." cried the little mouse. "I may be able to help you someday." The lion was tickled at these words.He thought, "How could this little mouse help me?" However he lifted up his paws and let him go.A few days later, the lion was caught in a trap.The hunters wanted to take him alive to the king, so they tied him to a tree, and went away to look for a wagon.Just then the little mouse passed by, and saw the sad lion.He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes. "Was I not right?" asked the little mouse.。