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优秀英文文章在散文的短小篇幅中,虽然没有像小说一样复杂的故事情节和细致的人物刻画,也没有像戏剧一样大起大落的矛盾冲突。

下面是小编带来的优秀经典英语文章阅读，欢迎阅读!优秀经典英语文章阅读篇一Real Life PhilosophyYou dont actually have to take the quiz. Just read this straight through，and youll get the point(an awesome one)it is trying to make!Take this quiz：1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.6. Name the last decades worth of World Series winners.How did you do?The point is，none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates areburied with their owners.Heres another quiz. See how you do on this one：1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you.Easier?The lesson：The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials，the most money，or the most awards. They are the ones that care.优秀经典英语文章阅读篇二Three Peach Stones 三颗核桃Observe a child;any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him happy，though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man;any one of us will do. You will notice that weeks and months can pass in which day is greeted with nothing more than resignation1，and endure with every politeindifference. Indeed，most men are as miserable as sinners，though they are too bored to sin-perhaps their sin is their indifference2. But it is true that they so seldom smile that when they do we do not recognize their face，so distorted is it from the fixed mask we take for granted3. And even then a man can not smile like a child，for a child smiles with his eyes，whereas a man smiles with his lips alone. It is not a smile;but a grin;something to do with humor4，but little to do with happiness. And then，as anyone can see，there is a point(but who can define that point?)when a man becomes an old man，and then he will smile again.It would seem that happiness is something to do with simplicity，and that it is the ability to extract pleasure form the simplest things-such as a peach stone，for instance.It is obvious that it is nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Stewart was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London，and bought a couple of old cottages，which he had knocked into one. He used his house a s weekend refuge5. He was a barrister. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.I remember some ten years ago when he was made aKings Counsel6，Amos and I，seeing him get off the London train，went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure;he merely looked as miserable as though hed received a penal sentence. It was the same when he was knighted;he never smiled a bit，he didnt even bother to celebrate with a round of drinks at theBlue Fox7. He took his success as a child does his medicine. And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes.I asked him one day，soon after hed retired to potter about his garden，8 what is was like to achieve all ones ambitions. He looked down at his roses and went on watering them. Then he saidThe only value in achieving ones ambition is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving.Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level，and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.I recall this incident，for yesterday，I was passing his house，and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall. I had pulled in from the road for no other reason than to let a bus pass me. As I set there filling my pipe，I suddenly heard a shout of sheer joy come from the other side of the wall.I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing lessthan a tribal war dance9 of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he observed my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not seem put out10 or embarrassed，but shouted for me to climb over.Come and see，Jan. Look!I have done it at last!I have done it at last!There he was，holding a small box of earth in his had. I observed three tiny shoots out of it.And there were only three!he said，his eyes laughing to heaven.Three what?I asked.Peach stones，he replied.Ive always wanted to make peach stones grow，even since I was a child，when I used to take them home after a party，or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them，and then forgot where I planted them. But now at last I have done it，and，whats more，I had only three stones，and there you are，one，two，three shoots，he counted.And Sir Henry ran off，calling for his wife to come and see his achievement-his achievement of simplicity.R. Duncan优秀经典英语文章阅读篇三Give us 15 Minutes A DayXYour boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have.Thats one good reason why hes your boss.This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world. Not by theoretical English professors，but by practical，hard-headed scholars who have been searching for the secrets of success.After a host of experiments and years of testing they have found out：That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited.That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words.That the vocabularyl of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties. And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do.It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of his position. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Quite the reverse is true. His skill in words was a tremendous help in getting him his job.Dr.Johnson O;Connor of thee Human Engineering Laboratory of Boston and of the Stevens Institute ofTechnology in Hoboken，New Jersey，gave a vocabulary test to 100 young men who were studying to be industrial executives.Five years later those who had passed in the upper ten percent all.，without exception，had executive positions，while not a single young man of the lower twenty-five per cent had become an executive.You see，there are certain factors in success that can be measured as scientifically as the contents of a test-tube，and it has been discovered that the most common characteristic of outstanding success isan extensive knowledge of the exact meaning of English words。