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1、英语美文短篇摘抄_关于课外英语美文摘抄经典美文可以陶冶情操,丰富想象,还可以培养学生对语言文字的兴趣,有益于培养他们的语文素养。WTT整理了关于课外英语美文,!关于课外英语美文:Magical coatMy l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously.It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northton Mass, crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad,
2、 woolen overcoats - a rose among thorns.While the other coats drooped, this one looked as if it were holding itself up.The thick, black wool of the double-breasted chesterfield was soft and unworn, as though it had been preserved in mothballs for years in dead old Uncle Henrys steamer trunk.The coat
3、 had a black velvet collar, beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and an unbelievable price of $28.We looked at each other, saying nothing, but Johns eyes gleamed.Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with teenage boys, but could cost several hundred dollars new.This coat was even better,
4、 bearing that touch of classic elegance from a bygone era.John slid his arms down into the heavy satin lining of the sleeves and buttoned the coat.He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious, studied e_pression that soon changed into a smile.The fit was perfect.John wore
5、 the coat to school the ne_t day and came home wearing a big grin.“Ho.did the kids like your coat?” I asked.“They loved it,” he said, carefully folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat.I started calling him “Lord Chesterfield” and “The Great Gatsby.”Over the ne_t few weeks, a change
6、 came over John.Agreement replaced contrariness, quiet, reasoned discussion replaced argument.He became more judicious, more mannerly, more thoughtful, eager to please.“Good dinner, Mom,” he would say every evening.He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him on the nicetie
7、s of behaviour; without a word of objection, he would carry in wood for the stove.One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner, John - a veteran procrastinator - said, “Youre right.I guess I will.”When I mentioned this incident to one of his teachers and remarked that I did
8、nt know what caused the changes, she said laughing.“It must be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned it but because she liked his coat.At the library, we ran into a friend who had not seen our children in a long time, “Could this be John?”
9、he asked, looking up to Johns new height, assessing the cut of his coat and e_tending his hand, one gentleman to another.John and I both know we should never mistake a persons clothes for the real person within them.But there is something to be said for wearing a standard of e_cellence for the world
10、 to see, for practising standards of e_cellence in though, speech, and behaviour, and for matching what is on the inside to what is on the outside.Sometimes, watching John leave for school, Ive remembered with a keen sting what it felt like to be in the eighth grade - a time when it was as easy to t
11、ry on different approaches to life as it was to try on a coat.The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast panorama where all the doors are open.And if I were there right now, I would picture myself walking through those doors wearing my wonderful, magical coat.关于课外英语美文:I Never W
12、rite RightWhen I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books.Half the students sneered, the rest nearly fell out of their chairs laughing.“Dont be silly, only geniuses can bee writers,” the English teacher said smugly, “And you are getting a D t
13、his semester.” I was so humiliated I burst into tears.That night I wrote a short sad poem about broken dreams and mailed it to the Capris Weekly newspaper.To my astonishment, they published it and sent me two dollars.I was a published and paid writer.I showed my teacher and fellow students.They laug
14、hed.“Just plain dumb luck,” the teacher said.I tasted success.Id sold the first thing Id ever written.That was more than any of them had done and if it was just dumb luck, that was fine with me.During the ne_t two years I sold dozens of poems, letters, jokes and recipes.By the time I graduated from
15、high school, with a C minus average, I had scrapbooks filled with my published work.I never mentioned my writing to my teachers, friends or my family again.They were dream killers and if people must choose between their friends and their dreams, they must always choose their dreams.I had four childr
16、en at the time, and the oldest was only four.While the children napped, I typed on my ancient typewriter.I wrote what I felt.It took nine months, just like a baby.I chose a publisher at random and put the manuscript in an empty Pers diapers package, the only bo_ I could find.Id never heard of manusc
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