适合八年级的英语阅读短文【精选20篇】

八年级上英语作文训练一

一.昨天是星期天，下面是王亮昨天的活动安排。请根据提示用第一人称写一篇短文来叙述他的活动。词数：80左右。

提示：1. 早晨6：20起床，然后大声朗读英语30分钟； 2. 7点吃早饭，然后在家写家庭作业；

3. 午饭后休息一个小时，然后骑自行车去书店； 4. 晚上和父母在家看电视，10点左右上床休息。

八年级上英语作文训练二

二．根据提示写一篇短文，不少80词

吉姆是你的好朋友，他的生活方式很健康，请根据下面的提示写一篇短文，介绍吉姆 是如何保持身体健康的。（词数80左右） 1. 他喜欢体育活动，最喜欢的是足球，他每个星期六下午都要参加学校足球俱乐部的训练；

2. 他喜欢健康的饮食，喜欢吃蔬菜和水果，每天要喝一杯牛奶，喝很多的水，很少吃垃圾食品

3. 周末他通常在完成作业后看看电视，有时和妈妈去购物； 4.每天晚上睡眠时间为8小时。

八年级上英语作文训练三

三．请根据下面表格中的信息，以Katrina’s Healthy Life为题，写一篇短文，介绍一下

八年级上英语作文训练四

四．假如你叫李明，因患重感冒今明两天不能去上学。请你参考下面所给的词语给你的

英语老师写一张请假条，说明你这两天不能上学的原因。

提示词语：not feel well ,a bad cold, stay in bed , for two days , can’t go to school , get well soon

要求：1.尽量使用上面所给的词语，使短文意思连贯； 2.词数：80左右。

八年级上英语作文训练五

五．请根据汉语提示，写一篇80词左右的短文。

提示：史密斯一家打算到夏威夷去度假。他们尊卑在那儿呆上一周，去海里游泳，品尝可口的海鲜食品(seafood)。他们还希望交到一些朋友。夏威夷很美，天气也很好。在那儿他们将度过一个轻松.愉快的假期。

八年级上英语作文训练六

六．你一定有许多难忘的旅游经历，它们给你留下了许多美好的回忆。请你描述你印象中最深刻的那次旅游。词数80左右。应包括下列内容：1. Where did you go 2. What did you do

3 .How was the weather there

4. How were the people and the food there 5. What do you think of it 6. Do you want to go again

八年级上英语作文训练七

七．假如你叫李明，请根据所给材料，给外国笔友David写一封信，介绍你最喜欢的的篮球明星姚明。 姓名：姚明

生日：1980年12月9日 国籍：中国 身高：2.26米

1998年：入选中国篮球明星队(become a member of China Basketball Star Team ) 2000年：进入中国国家篮球队(National Basketball Team )

2002年：到达美国，成为NBA状元秀(the most valuable player in NBA )

八年级上英语作文训练八

八．根据汉语提示和要求，以“My dream job”为题目写一篇短文。 提示：1. 你想成为一名记者；

2. 你打算给报纸.杂志写文章； 3. 高中毕业后想去北京上大学； 4. 想在一家电台工作并环游世界。

八年级上英语作文训练三

九．假如你叫李明，根据下面的提示词语给你的笔友王平发一封电子邮件，介绍一下你愿意和不愿意干的家务及其原因，80词左右。

chores , do the dishes , sweep the floor , take out the trash , make the bed , fold the clothes , clean the living room

八年级上英语作文训练三

十． 根据表格内三家电影院的信息，写一篇短文，比较一下三家影院的情况。

八年级上英语作文训练三

十一.外籍教师Richard想了解一下你所在班级学生的到校方式。假如你是李明，请以”The

way we go to school”为题，写一篇短文，向Richard介绍自己和同学们的到校方式。

八年级上英语作文训练三

十二.根据对话内容，制作一张请帖

Lisa : Hi , Cody . Can you come to our dinner party Cody : When is it

Lisa : It’s on Saturday , May 28 , at eight o’clock . Cody : Is it in your home Lisa : Yes . Can you come Cody : Great ! I’d love to .

八年级上英语作文训练三

十三.Lisa还邀请了Tom参加她家的聚会，但Tom因为一些事不能去。请帮Tom写一封

信感谢 Lisa的邀请，并说明不能去的理由（母亲病了，要照顾她，还要写作业）。 Dear Lisa ,

Thanks for your invitation .

八年级上英语作文训练三

十四.根据下表，介绍双胞胎李英和李红的不同，可适当拓展。

八年级上英语作文训练三

十五 .请你写一篇制作香蕉奶昔的说明书。使用first , next , then , finally等词。 INSTRUCTION

First , _________________________________________________ Next , _________________________________________________ Then , _________________________________________________

Finally , _______________________________________________

八年级上英语作文训练三

十六. 大家一起去野餐，每个人都带了自己喜欢而且是亲手制作的食物，有披萨，汉堡，

三明治，水果沙拉，爆米花。。。你带了什么呢？是怎样做的呢？以My favorite food为题，写一篇短文。

八年级上英语作文训练三

十七 .请以班长的身份写一则通知，告诉大家明天（10月10日）学校将组织大家出去野

营，为期两天，请大家告诉家长，并带上必需的物品：一件厚衣服，食物和水，必备的药品等。

八年级上英语作文训练三

NOTICE

This is your monitor . I have something to tell you .______________________________ 十八 . 假如你叫李明，请写一封信给你的外国笔友John，向他描述学校组织你们在海边

玩的快乐情景。信的内容应包括以下要点： 1. 在海滩上玩的具体内容 2. 在水族馆里看到的景物

3. 购买了纪念品，还吃了海鲜。 Dear John ,

On our last school trip , I ______________________________________________

Write soon .

Li Ming

Last summer, my family and I went to Hawaii for a holiday!

We flew across the Pacific to the tiny island from Beijing. After we booked

into a hotel, we rested. Our fun started the next day and lasted for two long

weeks. During our time there, we ate delicious exotic food and drank numerous

fruit juices. The Hawaiians are very proud of their unique food, often spiced

up with slices of juicy pineapple and strings of delicious cheese. There were

also fantastic beaches right accoss the tiny atoll. The water was sparkling blue

and the sand dunes radiated with an inviting warmth of gold. The place was

wonderful and the locals were really nice; I really enjoyed my holiday.

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今天是大年三十，除夕夜。家家户户都是一家人坐在一起吃年夜饭。

Today is thirty of the year, new years Eve. Every family is a family sitting together to eat a years dinner.

没吃一会儿门外就响起了“噌……碰”或者“啪啪啪……”的声响，我们一家人放下碗、筷，跑到门口看，这是哥哥说了一句话：不如我们也拿几个烟火出来放吧！我们所有人点头表示同意。我们将烟火放在门前，哥哥走到烟火旁用打火机点燃，便马上跑了回来。我听见“噌……”的一声就回过头来看，只见一朵花，无颜六色：红的象征着喜庆，蓝的象征着智慧、绿的象征着生机、黄的象征着温暖、紫的象征着浪漫……一会天女散花，一会枪林弹雨，七色的小球一颗颗落下，犹如一道彩虹。这是几乎所有的人家都开始放烟花了，一瞬间天空变成了烟花的海洋，各种色彩，各种样子，都在天空中绽开。快乐的寒假作文200字

Rang "bass didnt have a door...... Touch "or" popping......" The sound of the sound, our family put down the bowl, chopsticks, run to the door to see, this is the brother said a word: it is not as good as we also take a few fireworks out to put it! All of us nodded to express consent. We put the fireworks in front of the door, and the brother came to the fire and lit it with a lighter, and then he ran back. I hear the bass......" With a look back, I saw a flower without color. Red symbolizes joy. Blue symbolizes intelligence and green, which symbolizes vitality. Yellow symbolizes warmth and purple, symbolizing romance. A moment later seven a hail of bullets, The heavenly maids scatter blossoms., a ball down, like a rainbow. Almost all the people began to put off fireworks, and in a moment the sky turned into a sea of fireworks. All kinds of colors and appearances were blooming in the sky. 200 words of happy winter vacation

深夜伴随着十秒钟声倒计时的响起，又是一阵“噼里啪啦……”的声响，人们好像在庆祝这新的一年的到来的确，在这值得高兴的日子里，唯有烟花，才能吐出我们那喜悦的心情；唯有烟花，才能烘托这喜庆的气氛。除夕的烟花异常的美丽，人们脸上的笑容异常灿烂，鞭炮声异常的响……

The night with the sound sounded ten seconds countdown, it is a "crackling......" The sound of people seems to be celebrating this new year. Indeed, in this happy day, only fireworks can spit out our joyful mood. Only fireworks can foil this festive atmosphere. The unusual beauty of the fireworks on the eve of the new years Eve, the smiling face of the peoples face, the abnormal sound of the sound of the firecrackers...

人教新目标英语八年级上册作文

1.用日记格式写一篇旅游经历的作文。Unit1

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2.谈谈自己的好习惯和坏习惯（可以从eating ，living，studing等方面写）unit2 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-

3.你和你朋友在外貌和性格方面有什么异同呢请以"My best friend and I"为题,运用比较级写一篇英语文章.unit3

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4.新学期要到了,写一篇关于学期的计划,讲述一下自己打算在新的学期要做些什么提示:可以写自己在学习,健身,娱乐,培养业余爱好等方面的计划或打算.unit6

New Year’s Resolutions

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4.想想自己20年后的生活是怎样的。以“My dream”我的梦想 为题写一篇80词左右的短文 unit7

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5你最喜欢会吃什么菜呢吗？请根据本单元知识叙述一下这种食物的制作过程. Unit8

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6.假如你的好友邀请你去参加生日聚会，但因为你下周的日程已经排满，不能前往。请根据提示给她回信婉言谢绝，并表达你的谢意。Unit9

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7.你以后可能会有很多钱,想一想,如果你有了钱,你会用它做什么

以If I have a lot of money为题写一篇80词左右的短文. unit10

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8.假设李平是你的朋友，他目前的身体状况不好。他从来不锻炼，他经常感到很紧张，很疲倦，他爱吃零食，有时会胃疼。这几天，他感冒了。头很痛。请写一封信给他，并给他一些建议

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I have a good friend. Her name is May. She is 12 years old.Her telephone

number is _ Her birthday is March 5th. She is good at English and

Chinese.She often plays the piano. She likes reading books and listening to the

music. Because she think they’re interesting. I think she is a nice girl. We

often help each other. We are good friends.

We all known that reading should focus on method, but what methods are good for reading? Firstly, the difficulty of the book you read should be moderate. Too difficult or too easy are not so good.

If you find a book is too difficult to read, just put it aside and find an easier one instead. Secondly, read the books that are beneficial for you, which can help you in your career as well as in life. Thirdly, for those simple books or those without deep meanings, you can scan over them, but for those meaningful and beneficial, you should read them intensively and remember to take notes.

Finally, dont be shy to ask questions, because anyone could be your teacher. These approaches are general ones and each of you should have your own reading methods that make your reading fruitful.

adies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to present my speech here. My topic

today is an unforgettable winter holiday.

Personally, this winter holiday was quite different. Because of COVID-19, I

had to study at home and take online classes. As a result, I found I was able to

learn by myself. I also helped my parents with housework like cooking. And I

learned how to cook well. Last but not least, I had more time to communicate

with my parents. Therefore I learned to get on better with them.

What I learned during this holiday will surely influence my future life. I

will be more self-controlled and independent. And I am sure I will face

difficulties and challenges more bravely.

Thats all for my speech. Thank you for your time.

After a long cold winter when I have rarely been out on my bike, the weather has finally turned warmer and even sunny occasionally. Yesterday I had a surprise call from Tom suggesting we turn out for a short ride. This being my intention anyway I gladly agreed and we met up at Jiedaokou Station at about ten o’clock.

As Tom has a permanent Sunday Lunch appointment at 12-30pm we opted to make a round trip to Hannan . The weather was cloudy but dry and as we were both a bit out of condition after a long winter lay off we took the easy option of taking the train to Shiyan to get us on top of the ridge with an easy start for the trip.

A long coast down to Jiangtan and straight on to Mount End saw us climbing up to Zhongshan Park. The climb got stiffer but still Tom kept on riding. Gritting my teeth I followed on and crested the hill, Then the usual Essex switchback with an enforced short walk for both of us part way along saw us at Tawny common. Round the common we went, to the Mole Trap, an erstwhile rough old country pub now tarted up for the motorists. I don’t go in there any more, so we sat on the adjacent public seat for a while and a short natter.

Time enough to break away, Tom to his lunch appointment, me for home by way of theYellow Crane Tower and Changjiang Bridge. See you in a while, crocodile! I arrived home about 2 o’clock. Just in time for my own Sunday lunch .

[阅读初中英语作文

My favourite animal is dog.They are very cute.There are many kinds of dogs.Some of them are big and some of them are small,some of them are white and some of them are black.I like the big dogs,like a bulldog,because they can protect me.I dont have anydog yet,because my mum does not like dogs.she think they are dangrous.I Will buy a dog after I become older.

English is one of my best subjects and I started learning English when I was 10 years old. But at the very beginning, listening seemed a little difficult for me.

So I have been doing a lot of listening practice, such as listening to tapes, watching English TV programs.

And I found it really helped a lot. I enjoy singing English songs and I want to join an English club or find a pen pal from English-speaking countries.

I believe that nothing is impossible if you put your heart into it.

Before the holiday, my mood is mixed, I always have to meet the mood of the plan is the end of the holiday in a twinkling of an eye, I always looked at it like a flash in the pan with the mood of excitement unbearable holiday.

Holidays, although have piles of homework, but for me, that is the sweetest, most beautiful trap. Time, however, is that I have a miserable life. Originally present a wonderful holiday, is actually the most painful to enjoy! At this moment, I heard a child not far from the noise, is suddenly enlighted, I originally is far from the door to freedom, with the speed of light also cant catch up with. At this time, I like eighteen layers of hell from heaven fell to the bottom, can not help but sigh deeply.

Vacation, I went to the Forbidden City is the most unforgettable, when I was in the museum attracted to exquisite porcelain, I like a cageling general freedom is let out, forget yesterday. The painful memories, like chains, I still cannot forget right now.

See vacation to the end, I would like a horse fierce eat grass back, although I kept in combat and mathematics, but, I still very like to finish this period of painful memories.

In the imperial palace, I saw many, jade and precious cultural relics of Buddha, I also learned the use and practice of bronze ware, enough a lot of knowledge. Knowledge and fully enjoy the trip!

放假前，我的心情是五味杂陈的，我总是有着满足的心情计划转眼间就结束的假期，我总是以兴奋难耐的心情看着那宛如昙花一现的假期。

放假时，虽有堆积如山的作业，但对我而言，那是最甜的折磨，最美的陷阱。可是，时间却令我有种度日如年的感觉。原来眼前美好的假期，其实是最痛苦的享受啊!这时的我，听见不远处有小孩的嬉闹声，才恍然大悟，我原来离自由之门有十万八千里，用光速也无法追到。这时，我就像从天堂掉到十八层地狱的底端，不禁深深叹一口气。

假期生活中，我最难忘的便是前往故宫了，我在馆内被细腻的瓷器吸引时，我就像笼中鸟被放出一般自由，忘了昨日的苦。那段痛楚的回忆就像枷锁一样，我到现在依旧忘不了。

眼看假期到了尾声，我就像马一样猛吃回头草，虽然我不停在和数学战斗，可是，我还是十分喜欢回味这段痛苦的回忆。

在故宫，我看见了许多珍贵的文物、玉器以及佛像，我也学到了青铜器的用途以及做法，充足了许多知识。并充分享受这段知识之旅!

There were three of them. There were four of us, and April lay on the campsite and on the river, a mixture of dawn at a damp extreme and the sun in the leaves at cajole. This was Deer Lodge on the Pine River in Ossipee, New Hampshire, though the lodge was naught but a foundation remnant in the earth. Brother Bentleys father, Oren, had found this place sometime after the First World War, a foreign affair that had seriously done him no good but he found solitude abounding here. Now we were here, post World War II, post Korean War, Vietnam War on the brink. So much learned, so much yet to learn.

Peace then was everywhere about us, in the riot of young leaves, in the spree of bird confusion and chatter, in the struggle of pre-dawn animals for the start of a new day, a Cooper Hawk that had smashed down through trees for a squealing rabbit, yap of a fox at a youngster, a skunk at rooting.

We had pitched camp in the near darkness, Ed LeBlanc, Brother Bentley, Walter Ruszkowski, myself. A dozen or more years we had been here, and seen no one. Now, into our campsite deep in the forest, so deep that at times we had to rebuild sections of narrow road (more a loggers path) flushed out by earlier rains, deep enough where we thought wed again have no traffic, came a growling engine, an old solid body van, a Chevy, the kind I had driven for Frankie Pike and the Lobster Pound in Lynn delivering lobsters throughout the Merrimack Valley. It had pre-WW II high fenders, a faded black paint on a body youd swear had been hammered out of corrugated steel, and an engine that made sounds too angry and too early for the start of day. Two elderly men, we supposed in their seventies, sat the front seat; felt hats at the slouch and decorated with an assortment of tied flies like a miniature bandoleer of ammunition on the band. They could have been conscripts for Emilano Zappata, so loaded their hats and their vests as they climbed out of the truck.

"Mornin, been yet?" one of them said as he pulled his boots up from the folds at his knees, the tops of them as wide as a big mouth bass coming up from the bottom for a frog sitting on a lily pad. His hands were large, the fingers long and I could picture them in a shop barn working a primal plane across the face of a maple board. Custom-made, old elegance, those hands said.

"Barely had coffee," Ed LeBlanc said, the most vocal of the four of us, quickest at friendship, at shaking hands. "Weve got a whole pot almost. Have what you want." The pot was pointed out sitting on a hunk of grill across the stones of our fire, flames licking lightly at its sides. The pot appeared as if it had been at war, a number of dents scarred it, the handle had evidently been replaced, and if not adjusted against a small rock it would have fallen over for sure. Once, a half-hour on the road heading north, noting it missing, wed gone back to get it. When we fished the Pine River, coffee was the glue, the morning glue, the late evening glue, even though wed often unearth our beer from a natural cooler in early evening. Coffee, camp coffee, has a ritual. It is thick, it is dark, it is potboiled over a squaw-pine fire, it is strong, it is enough to wake the demon in you, stoke last evenings cheese and pepperoni. First man up makes the fire, second man the coffee; but into that pot has to go fresh eggshells to hold the grounds down, give coffee a taste of history, a sense of place. That means at least one egg be cracked open for its shells, usually in the shadows and glimmers of false dawn. I suspect thats where "scrambled eggs" originated, from some camp like ours, settlers rushing west, lumberjacks hungry, hoboes lobbying for breakfast. So, camp coffee has made its way into poems, gatherings, memories, a time and thing not letting go, not being manhandled, not being cast aside.

英语作文阅读：AnEmptyBox

Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the familys only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebox to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!"

As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction.

But when he opened it, he found it was empty and again his anger flared. "Dont you know, young lady, " he said harshly, "when you give someone a present theres supposed to be something inside the package!"

The little girl looked up at him with tears rolling from her eyes and said: "Daddy, its not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an invisible golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.

There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

英语作文阅读：HappinessEquateswithFun

I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful inpiduals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness".

But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, profound loneliness.

The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.

英语作文阅读：TodayisaGift

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 room‘s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end.

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn‘t hear the band - he could see it in his mind‘s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly and painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

英语作文阅读：IsPackingImportanttoYou

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealers showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young mans name embossed in gold.

Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" He then stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his fathers house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his fathers important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago.

With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealers name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words… "PAID IN FULL".

How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? I trust you enjoyed this. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Sometimes we dont realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect "the packaging" to be different. What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.

英语作文阅读：TheBabyEagle

Once upon a time there was a baby eagle living in a nest perched on a cliff overlooking a beautiful valley with waterfalls and streams, trees and lots of little animals, scurrying about enjoying their lives.

The baby eagle liked the nest. It was the only world he had ever known. It was warm and comfortable, had a great view, and even better, he had all the food and love and attention that a great mother eagle could provide. Many times each day the mother would swoop down from the sky and land in the nest and feed the baby eagle delicious morsels of food. She was like a god to him, he had no idea where she came from or how she worked her magic.

The baby eagle was hungry all the time, but the mother eagle would always come just in time with the food and love and attention he craved. The baby eagle grew strong. His vision grew very sharp. He felt good all the time.

Until one day, the mother stopped coming to the nest.

The baby eagle was hungry. "Im sure to die," said the baby eagle, all the time.

"Very soon, death is coming," he cried, with tears streaming down his face. Over and over. But there was no one there to hear him.

Then one day the mother eagle appeared at the top of the mountain cliff, with a big bowl of delicious food and she looked down at her baby. The baby looked up at the mother and cried "Why did you abandon me? Im going to die any minute. How could you do this to me?"

The mother said, "Here is some very tasty and nourishing food, all you have to do is come get it."

"Come get it!" said the baby, with much anger. "How?"

The mother flew away.

The baby cried and cried and cried.

A few days later, "Im going to end it all," he said. "I give up. It is time for me to die."

He didnt know his mother was nearby. She swooped down to the nest with his last meal.

"Eat this, its your last meal," she said.

The baby cried, but he ate and whined and whined about what a bad mother she was.

"Youre a terrible mother," he said. Then she pushed him out of the nest.

He fell.

Head first.

Picked up speed.

Faster and faster.

He screamed. "Im dying Im dying," he cried. He picked up more speed.

He looked up at his mother. "How could you do this to me?"

He looked down.

The ground rushed closer, faster and faster. He could visualize his own death so clearly, coming so soon, and cried and whined and complained. "This isnt fair!" he screamed.

Something strange happens.

The air caught behind his arms and they snapped away from his body, with a feeling unlike anything he had ever experienced. He looked down and saw the sky. He wasnt moving towards the ground anymore, his eyes were pointed up at the sun.

"Huh?" he said. "What is going on here!"

"Youre flying," his mother said.

"This is fun!" laughed the baby eagle, as he soared and ped and swooped.

"Yes it is!" said the mother.

[英语作文阅读：The Three Fishermen

Sam is a little fish. He lives in the sea. He is very lonely. He wants to have a friend. The friend looks like him. Sam sees an ink fish. The ink fish has eight legs. He doesn’t look like Sam. So Sam goes away.

Sam meets a shark. He wants to say hello to the shark. The shark opens his big mouth. Sam runs away quickly.

Sam is tired and hungry. He wants to have a rest. Then he sees a round fish. She says to him. “Hello! Would you like to be my friend?”

Sam answers: “Of course! But you are round. I am flat.” The round fish days: “But we are both fishes.”

Sam thinks and says, “You are right. Let’s be friends.” They become good friends.

每年的暑假，爸爸妈妈都会放下手中的工作，带我去旅游，让我感受大自然的气息，多长长见识，但我觉得最难忘的和最快乐的是去年暑假期间，爸爸妈妈带我去大连游玩。

The annual summer vacation, mom and dad will put down the work, take me to travel, let me feel the breath of nature, how long to see, but I think the most memorable and happy is the last summer holiday, my parents took me to visit dalian.

我一到大连就跑到了海边，看见了金灿灿的沙滩，还有一群一群在海里游泳的人们。我们三个人赤着脚在沙滩上捡贝壳，我和妈妈捡得贝壳又大又漂亮，接着我拿出一把小铲子，妈妈拿来一个小水桶，我们一起堆沙子，小沙子在太阳的照射下，像一颗颗金色的宝石，美极了!爸爸走过来拉着我的手，一步一步的走向大海，海浪一个一个的涌过来，打在了我的腿，我既兴奋又有些紧张，但我看到大海里有许多和我一般大的孩子在游泳时，我就不紧张了，很快适应了海水，带上游泳圈自由自在地在大海里游玩，开心极了。

I went to the seaside to Dalian, see the golden beach, there are a group of a group of people swimming in the sea. We three people barefoot pick up shells on the beach, my mother and I pick up shells are large and beautiful, and then I come up with a small shovel, my mother brought a small bucket, together we pile of sand, sand in the sun, like a golden gem, beautiful! Father came and took me by the hand, step by step into the sea, the waves of a coming, and hit me in the leg, and I both excited and nervous, but I see the sea there are many and I generally children in swimming, I was not nervous, very quickly to the sea water, with swimming circle take ones ease playing in the sea, very happy.

在回来的路上我依依不舍，心里暗暗地想，明年有机会我还会来大连玩的，再见了!大连!

Be reluctant to part I on the way back, my heart secretly think, next year I will have the opportunity to play in Dalian, goodbye! Dalian!

The Spring Festival is the most important traditional one in China. As an

important part of it, fireworks bring us happier atmosphere than usual. This

Spring Festival, Dad bought lots of fireworks as last year. On the eve, he

lighted them, and then they blossomed like flowers in the sky, with sweet sounds

and brilliant light. How beautiful! I was deeply moved, though every Spring

Festival I felt it. It brought me the beautiful feelings. At that moment I was

buried in the sea of happiness. And also it made me feel more about the

prosperity of our homeland.

Meanwhile, I was worried about the fireworks. First, setting off

firecrackers made a tremendous noise and caused serious air pollution. Also

childrens safety faced the crisis of getting burned or injured in the eyes.

Whats worse, many dustmens valuable time was wasted for fireworks pieces after

being set off dirtied the environment.

So I thought some day well have to forbid making and setting off

fireworks, though its a Chinese custom for hundreds of years.

Nowadays, working overtime is so common in many companies, especially in

foreign companies, private companies, and joint ventures. As far as I am

concerned, there are two main reasons of working overtime. For one thing, there

is indeed too much work to do.

If it is so, the boss should compensate staffs by

paying them as overtime salary or giving them vacations. For another, some

staffs are not suitable for their positions. In that case, the boss ought to

help them to improve their working efficiency. If they are still not qualified,

boss may change the positions for them, or to the worst, dismiss them. Thats

all what I think about working overtime.

Every Thursday at 6 o;clock in the afternoon, we all go to the English comer on the campus to practice our spoken English.

We talk about various topics we are

interested in, such as campus life, the wide use of English, and information technology.

We communicated with each other frankly, happily and freely. Our English has improved quickly by this means. We all believe that "practice makes perfect."

In recent years, my hometown has changed greatly, because of new road and

railway has been built. Previously, my hometown was closed to the outside world.

Several years ago, the government paid much money on changing the basic

equipment of my hometown.

Building new roads is the biggest project. It took

about half a year to build the new road. After finish, people have more methods

to make money. And we have more communication with other places, which is a good

way to develop ourselves. About two years latter, the railway was built. After

that, there have been more and more changes happened in my hometown. Now, my

hometown has developed into a big and rich town. People live a happy life.

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

The worlds environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss. If that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apart, offering a long list of complaints: from local smog(烟雾)to global climate change, from the felling(砍伐)of forests to the extinction of species. The list would largely be accurate, the concern legitimate. Yet the students who should be given the highest marks would actually be those who agreed with the statement. The surprise is how good things are, not how bad.

After all, the worlds population has more than tripled during this century, and world output has risen hugely, so you would expect the earth itself to have been affected. Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in the same way as they did in 1900 , the world by now would be a pretty disgusting place: smelly, dirty, toxic and dangerous.

But they dont. The reasons why they dont, and why the environment has not been ruined, have to do with prices, technological innovation, social change and government regulation in response to popular pressure. That is why todays environmental problems in the poor countries ought, in principle, to be solvable.

Raw materials have not run out, and show no sign of doing so. Logically, one day they must: the planet is a finite place. Yet it is also very big, and man is very ingenious. What has happened is that every time a material seems to be running short, the price has risen and, in response, people have looked for new sources of supply, tried to find ways to use less of the materials, or looked for a new substitute. For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real terms during the century. The same is true for food. Prices fluctuate, in response to harvests, natural disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes some time before new sources of supply become available. But they always do, assisted by new farming and crop technology. The long-term trend has been downwards.

[英语阅读理解作文

Pollution has been a serious problem for a certain time around the world.

There are many causes for it. Transportation is the main factor of pollution.

When the waste gas from cars is released, the air is polluted. People breathing

in the polluted air can develop respiratory disease. Another factor is that

people throw their garbage everywhere. All kinds of garbage not only spoil the

splendid environment, but also cause environmental pollution. Whats more,

industrial pollution also deserves our attention. Wastewater from factories is

poured into rivers and this causes water pollution. As a consequence, the

greenhouse effect becomes a problem which needs our immediate caution and how to

solve is urgent all over the world. At present, some measures have been taken to

prevernt.

For example, people classify the garbage and some is recycled after being

collected. People are also encouraged to use paper products instead of plastic

products because we know that our living condition will be worse if we keep

ignoring this problem. And I believe we can prevent pollution if everyone makes

the efforts.

Hi everyone!

Lately, Ive been having problems with my math class. Ever since we started

geometry, I have been struggling to keep up with the course. I pay the most

attention I could in class, but I simply just dont understand geometry. All the

proofs, figures, and laws, none of which I can fully understand. Can some

geometry experts tell me some strategies for learning geometry? I really need

help.

Thank you.