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导语:我们都知道,学生应该学会如何与他人相处。但在哪些方面呢?下面是开学吧小编为还在备考的同学整理的优秀英语作文,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!

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初一年级英语作文:寒假英语日记400字

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January 28 2010 it was the third day of our winter holiday. today, there are many business in my mother‘s company. so my mother told me to help my uncle who is the manager of my mother’s company. i sat in my mother‘s office and help her answer the telephone. while i was free, i was writing my homework. although i also have a lot of time to do my homework, i still do it. because in my mother’s office, i had nothing to do. if i did nothing, i was wasting my time and my life. i can‘t do the foolish thing. we should take good use of our time.

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篇1:红楼梦读后感初一优秀作文

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第一次读《红楼梦》时,我还是个小孩子。故事里的林黛玉给我留下了深刻印象。不是因为喜欢她,相反的,我从内心十分讨厌这位整天哭哭啼啼,做事刻薄,说话尖锐的“小心眼”。我觉得这样的人不值得贾宝玉对她痴恋一生。

等我长大点了,我又重新拿起《红楼梦》。这时,我才慢慢明白黛玉的诗,黛玉的梦,黛玉的泪。重新读描写她与宝玉的第一次见面时的场景时,心里生出好些感触:初见时黛玉在心里说的一名“何等眼熟到如此”,宝玉脱口而出的“这个妹妹我曾见过”。这一问一答注定了这痴情的千古绝唱。

再读,再品。黛玉多愁的泪也有了源头。从小寄人篱下的她,小心翼翼,害怕别人对她的嘲笑。她没有勇气如史湘云,醉卧芍药丛中的青石凳上,却总是“严严实实裹着一床红绫子被”;她没有心气如薛宝钗,写出“韶华休笑本无根,好风凭借力,送我上云”。她只愿“嫁与东风春不管,凭尔去,忍淹留”。

黛玉的离去,让我一直难以释怀。黛玉深爱着宝玉,他们有着“在天愿为比翼鸟,在地愿结连理枝”的愿望,希望白头偕老。却又无奈上天让黛玉在心上人与另一个女人的良辰吉时,一面是洞房花烛,一面是生死离别。黛玉是苦的,有那么多的有情人终成眷属,在爱的人的注视下离去。她却只能焚稿断情魂归离恨天。黛玉输了,败了,而胜者是那与她心上人结下金玉良缘的薛宝钗。可是,黛玉又在哪里输了呢,她的才情谁能比拟?她的一颦一笑何人能及?只能怪她生存的社会太黑,黑得如墨。黛玉的泪也只能反射它的黑。

黛玉也是幸运的。世界与封建的黑暗没有玷污这位“珠仙子”,她一直高傲纯净,她可以继续做自己,继续纯洁清高,就如她的诗“质来洁来还洁去,强于污浊陷渠沟”!

合上书,闭上眼,一个消瘦苍白的女子慢慢在黑暗中消逝,痴痴地唱着“花谢花飞花满天,红消香断有谁怜”。

这本书使我明白了一个道理:近朱者赤近墨者黑。

[红楼梦读后感初一优秀作文

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篇2:《洋葱头历险记》童话故事读后感

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寒假我读了一本《洋葱头历险记》,这本书讲的是老洋葱头无意中踩到了柠檬王一脚而被关进监狱。洋葱头来看老洋葱头时,爸爸告诉他,监狱里关押的都是无辜的人,而非为非作歹的坏人却被养在皇宫里。洋葱头决心救出监狱里的人,却不幸被投入黑牢。在鼹鼠的帮助下,洋葱头和狱友们历经磨难后终于获救,推翻了柠檬王的统治,获得自由。

我知道了正义是不会被邪恶打到的,有付出才有收获,我要学习洋葱头不怕困难,永不退缩的精神。

在这个故事里,人物有的有趣,有的幽默,有的滑稽,有的庄重,有的严肃。我这就去给你介绍几个!——永远吃不饱肚子的大肥墩儿橘子男爵;细瘦细瘦的密斯脱胡萝卜;尽职尽责的蜘蛛邮递员;聪明可爱的小樱桃;多嘴多舌的南瓜大嫂;每天都要梳胡子的小葱大叔;大脑袋的番茄骑士;骨瘦如柴的复盆子大哥;善于助人的田鼠;当然,还有正直的洋葱头……

读完了这个故事,我明白了我要像洋葱头一样做一个勇敢而正直的人,互帮互助,团结友爱,为了自己的目标去努力!

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篇3:《老人与海》初一500字读后感

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>讲的是这样一个故事:老人圣地亚哥是古巴一个经验丰富的老渔夫,他有一位忘年交,小男孩马洛林。由于运气原因,他连续84天都没有捕到一条鱼,孩子也因为父母的原因离开了老人,去了另一条渔船。但他仍然坚信下一次自己总会钓到一条了不得的大鱼。的确,他成功了。在费尽千辛万苦,经历了无数次失败之后,他终于凭借着惊人的毅力打败了大鱼,钓上了一条长达十八英尺,比他渔船还大的马林鱼。但命运之神似乎仍没有眷顾对方,在他用尽全力,花费了两天两夜捕获到这条大鱼,正准备返航时,鱼的鲜血散发出血腥味却又引来了成群结队的鲨鱼。在精疲力竭赶走了全部鲨鱼之后,他才发现那条十八英尺的大鱼已经被撕咬得只剩下一条脊骨……>told such a story: The old man is a experienced old fisherman in Cuba. He has a young boy Marlin.Due to his luck, he did not catch a fish for 84 consecutive days. The child left the elderly because of his parents and went to another fishing boat.But he still believes that the next time he will always catch a big fish.Indeed, he succeeded.After exhausting thousands of hardships, after countless failures, he finally defeated the big fish with amazing perseverance and caught a Malinn with an eighteen feet long and bigger than his fishing boat.But the god of fate still does not seem to care for the other party. When he tried his best, he took two days and two nights to capture this big fish. When he was preparing to return to the air, the blood of the fish emitted the bloody smell, but it caused a group of teams to form a group team.Shark.After exhausting all the sharks, he discovered that the eighteen feet big fish had been bitten and only one spine was left ...

费尽周折,却只带回一具残骸,历尽艰辛,却只留下了一身的伤。但尽管这样,老人仍然与孩子相约一起去打鱼。看到这里我潸然泪下——这是一种多么值得人敬佩的精神啊!这篇文章给我带来了感官上的刺激,但更多的则是反思。敢问在我们这些从小娇生惯养的00后可曾有这样的精神?作业稍多,便叫苦连天;受点挫折,便萎靡不振;甚至有许多成年人都无法做到这一点!写到这里,作为一名少先队员,我感到深深的惭愧,不禁扪心自问:这种本应该长久留存下去的优良品质去哪了?海明威笔下一个普普通通的老人圣地亚哥却让我感受到了这种永不腐朽的品质。

现在中学生阅读的普遍是一些所谓的“青少年流行读物”,那些真正的名著却堆在家中的书柜里无人问津。在这里,我要向全世界儿童呼吁:那些“少年读物”无法带给你任何东西。有空,多去翻翻那些名作,那是世界几千年文化积累的精华!其它只是转瞬即逝的风景,只有那些经典之作才是经久不衰的!

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篇4:哲理故事读后感

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这几天,我看了一本名叫《中外哲理故事》的书。在这本书里,有许多有名气的人励志而又不怕困难的故事。但其中,让我印象最深的是《我还有一个苹果》的故事。

这个故事是说,在北欧的瑞典,有一位充满传奇色彩的老人,名叫斯坦利·库尔茨。他本是一名医生,但对沙漠探险情有独钟,曾多次深入沙漠探险。有一次,斯坦利·库尔茨试图穿越撒哈拉大沙漠,但不幸的是,他遭遇了一场铺天盖地的风暴。这场突如其来的风暴,瞬间使他一无所有:向导不见了,驼群不见了,水和食物都不见了。斯坦利恐惧极了。

绝望的那一刻,他下意识的把手伸进了口袋,竟意外的发现,口袋里还有一个苹果。斯坦利坚信自己手上的苹果,凭着还有一个苹果的信念和求生的意志,终于走出了撒哈拉大沙漠。

在我们成长的过程中,我们总会遇到各种各样的困境。在困境面前,我们一定要保持坚定的信念去坚持最初的自己,因为我们每个人的内心都隐藏着一颗“苹果”,鼓励我们从沮丧和消沉中走出来,走向美好的未来。

现在的中国还在慢慢的发展中,和其他一些国家还有一定的差距,而且还遇到了很多困难,但只要我们都怀有“苹果”的信念,总有一天会赶上的!

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篇5:《失乐园》英语读后感

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The success of Milton’s Paradise Lost owes much to the depiction of the main epicimage of Satan whose attributes enable him to achieve tragic status. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of paradise Lost. The critics in the world have been concerning the image of Satan in Paradise Lost, whose complexity makes the poem more controversial.The reason why the image under Milton’s pen is so complex is that the Satan attracts the poet’s inner force, which drives him to change the people’s traditional ideas and cause resonance of all the revolutionaries.

Satan in the Bible is an image of devil. But in Paradise Lost, Satan challenges the authority of God and want to be free, he is a fighter for freedom. The poet portrayed Satan as a brave hero that went to get rid of god’s domination. In Paradise Lost, the Satan was the most successful image the author shaped.The allure of free will is where the attractiveness and power of Satan"s character lies. Stanley Fish in his essay, ‘The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lost, argues that Satan possesses a form of heroism which is easy to admire because it is visible and flamboyant and that, on that basis, Satan’s attractiveness is only initial. Milton was, undoubtedly, conscious that he was in danger of portraying Satan as too much of a heroic figure and made efforts to be little him through the use of unflattering imagery, and by highlighting his less complimentary characteristics.

Nonetheless, our emotions are still fired. Our first encounter with Satan and his rebel hosts occurs in Book I, when they are recovering from the shock of having been expelled from heaven by the Son after three days of fighting the angels of God. Despite the defeat he has suffered, Satan gains our admiration by displaying resilience in quickly coming to terms with the change in his circumstances, in remustering his forces and organizing the building of his palace, Pandemonium. At the same time he demonstrates his determination not to be defeated and shows true qualities of leadership, persuasively arguing that there is still hope for battle and victory. Satan is convincing in his first speech to Beelzebub, his chief partner in crime, as he declares: What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of Paradise Lost or, at the very least, a main character who possesses the stature and attributes which enable him to achieve tragic status. In the Greek tradition, the essential components of tragedy are admiration, fear and pity for the ‘hero’, who has to display a tragic weakness or flaw in his character, which will lead to his downfall. It might be argued that the flaws in Satan’s character are such that we should feel no admiration, fear or pity for him, yet he can be seen to inspire these emotions. Satan’s tragic flaws are pointed out in Book I. They are envy, pride, and ambition towards self-glorification. Satan’s pride, in particular, is stressed throughout Paradise Lost.

The poet condemned God through Satan’s words. On the surface, God had given human free will; in fact, he had suppressed the true freedom.Obviously, the poet"s criticism and condemnation of God were out from the social reality of United Kingdom. The tyrant was the embodiment of Stuart. Milton laid his own political tendencies in the great Satan. He portrayed Satan"s resistance as the justice resistance to authoritarian rule and a bold challenge to the violent regime.

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篇6:撒哈拉的故事读后感500字

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这次我们读了《撒哈拉故事》这本书,是中国的大文豪三毛先生写的。我通过这本书了解了三毛先生的幸福观,这为我以后的人生带来了很大的启示

这里面写到了三毛先生与荷西在沙漠中旅行扎根并结婚的种种经过,婚礼虽然没有如此隆重,但只要有情人终成眷属就好,他们潦草结婚后,就过上了幸福的生活,

他们的爱情没有经过像小说里那样扣人心弦,大风大浪,而是很平静,很普通,很甜蜜,这大概就是幸福吧!

他们一起“白手起家”租了一套在沙漠中属于自己的房子,他们按照自己的规划来收拾自己的家,这样生活在这个家里才有意义,才有幸福感。

他们一起去一条大不熟悉的路找化石,却陷入泥潭,三毛先生在岸上又遇到了小混混,但三毛先生很聪明的甩掉了他们,她又跑回去,以为荷西死了,而自己绝望了,谁知却找错地方了,真是惊险一场,他们夫妻二人要齐心协力的把荷西救了上来。

他们的爱情,他们的婚姻,就是既简单又纯洁,却又不是那么的普通,他们都互相爱着对方,为对方着想,他们用实践告诉我们爱情不需要大风大浪,简单就好,我们只要真心实意的爱着对方,那这爱情就是圆满的!

里面还写到了痴情的沙伊达,悲惨的姑卡,美丽的蜜娜……

在三毛先生看来,只要不寂寞,有爱的人陪着,爱着,这就是幸福,简简单单,快快乐乐,这就是幸福。

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篇7:假如给我三天光明读后感初一

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不久前,我读了一本海伦。凯勒写的《假如给我三天光明》后,铭记在我心里。

海伦·凯勒很可怜,她只有十九个月的光明,当她彻底崩溃的时候,忽然,有一双手来帮助她——沙利文小姐,沙利文小姐在努力让她学说话,每天海伦。凯勒都每天认真地学。时间如箭,日月如梭,海伦考上了顶级的哈沸大学,她考上这所大学之后,天天帮助别人,帮助那些可怜的人。她为她身边的人,为她自己做出了巨大的贡献。

读完这本书之后,我已经泪流满面,热泪盈眶。觉得海伦太坚强了,居然带给她不休止的黑暗和倾听世界的权力。但她还在努力学说话,如果当时是我,我一定心也跟着一起死了,我太佩服海伦了,你让我明白了做任何事都要坚强。

她学说话的一段时间,用手按着喉咙,嘴唇根据字母的读音轻轻地动了起来,跟着沙利文小姐的节奏,慢慢地动着,她每天坚持这样练,练了很长很长时间,终于她学会了说话,不仅学会了说话,还学会了法语、德语、拉丁语,从顶级的哈佛大学拉德克里大学院毕业。就这样,她写了一本书《假如给我三天光明》,她要在第一天:去看望曾经帮助过她的人,和他们讨论自己的心事,聊聊天,喝喝茶。第二天:海伦去看看大自然的美,去亲身体会大自然的和谐。第三天:去看看小动物们的一张张可爱的笑脸。三天仿佛是一个梦,这梦结束了,海伦。凯勒又要沉浸在黑暗的世界里了,把海伦的一切购锁住了。

我们现在生活在那么好的环境里,所有我们要珍惜时间,珍惜和家人相处的机会。就算遇到什么困难,也要像海伦一样,做一个打不倒的“海伦·凯勒”。

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篇8:我和英语的故事作文350字

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很小的时候,妈妈手上拿着一张纸,不停地说:黑楼,黑楼,还有踢车。

我问:妈妈,什么是黑楼啊?

妈妈说:不是黑楼,是哈喽。

我以前不懂英语,后来上了幼儿园大班后才知道英语里的hello。在一年级的暑假里,我背过了英语A、B、C等26个字母。二年级时,听说下一年要学英语,我着急了,因为我不知道怎么学英语,后来上了才知道,没有我想象得那么难,英语老师也不凶,还很逗,有时她刚做完的事,转身就忘了。

有人不好好听课时,老师就叽里咕噜,叽里咕噜的,全是英语。

有一次英语课上,一个英语学得不太好的同学,在书上画小人,那个小人画得很好玩,结果被老师发现了。老师叽里咕噜一串英语数落他,逗得我们笑,那个同学摸着脑袋,听不懂老师说啥。

英语课是有趣的,让我懂得了那些美丽的单词。

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篇9:中外名人故事读后感

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看完《中外名人故事》这本书,我不禁感慨万分。历史上的这些名人,每个人都有他的丰功伟绩,真是让人敬佩!但是我知道他们能取得成功,并不是因为他们是天才,而是他们付出了常人难以想象的努力

例如贝尔是电话的发明者。他小时候是一个淘气包,自从在爷爷那儿受到影响,他并开始努力学习,等到了高中时,他已经是学校里的优等生了。一次偶然的实验启发了贝尔想发明电话,许多人都说贝尔是痴心妄想,可贝尔并没有因此灰心丧气,反而坚定了自己制造电话的决心。他深信世上无难事,只怕有心人。虽然贝尔在实验的过程中烧坏了裤子,把大腿烧的火辣辣,但最后还是成功了。成功是在他勤奋,执着和顽强进去的精神上得来到。

除了贝尔,这本书里还介绍了许多其他的名人,如:孔子。孙武。屈原。韩信。张衡。华佗。王羲之。居里夫人。爱因斯坦。爱迪生······他们都是靠着自己的勤奋努力而成为名人的,他们都值得我们学习和尊敬。

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篇10:英语哲理故事长HeNeverMissedaGame

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Bob Richards, the former pole-vault champion, shares a moving story about a skinny young boy who loved football with all his heart.

Practice after practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the size of the other boys, he got absolutely nowhere. At all the games, this hopeful athlete sat on the bench and hardly ever played.

This teenager lived alone with his father, and the two of them had a very special relationship. Even though the son was always On the bench, his father was always in the stands cheering. He never missed a game. This young man was still the smallest of the class when he entered high school. But his father continued to encourage him but also made it very clear that he did not have to play football if he didn‘t want to.

But the young man loved football and decided to hang in there He was determined to try his best at every practice, and perhaps he‘d get to play when he became a senior. All through high school he never missed a practice nor a game but remained a bench-warmer all four years. His faithful father was always in the stands, always with words of encouragement for him. When the young man went to college, he decided to try out for the football team as a "walk-on." Everyone was sure he could never make the cut, but he did.

The coach admitted that he kept him on the roster because he always puts his heart and soul to every practice, and at the same time, provided the other members with the spirit and hustle they badly needed.

The news that he had survived the cut thrilled him so much that he rushed to the nearest phone and called his father. His father shared his excitement and was sent season tickets for all the college games. This persistent young athlete never missed practice during his four years at college, but he never got to play in a game.

It was the end of his senior football season, and as he trotted onto the practice field shortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram. The young man read the telegram and he became deathly silent. Swallowing hard, he mumbled to the coach, "My father died this morning. Is it all right if I miss practice today?" The coach put his arm gently around his shoulder and said, "Take the rest of the week off, son. And don‘t even plan to come back to the game on Saturday."

Saturday arrived, and the game was not going well. In the third quarter,when the team was ten points behind, a silent young man quietly slipped into the empty locker room and put on his football gear. As he ran onto the sidelines, the coach and his players were astounded to see their faithful teammate back so soon. "Coach, please let me play. I‘ve just got to play today," said the young man. The coach pretended not to hear him. There was no way he wanted his worst player in this close playoff game. But the young man persisted, and finally feeling sorry for the kid, the coach gave in. "All right," he said."You can go in." Before long, the coach, the players and everyone in the stands could not believe their eyes. This little unknown, who had never played before was doing everything right. The opposing team could not stop him. He ran, he passed, blocked, and tackled like a star. His team began to triumph. The score was soon tied. In the closing seconds of the game, this kid intercepted a pass and ran all the way for the winning touchdown. The fans broke loose. His teammates hoisted him onto their shoulders. Such cheering you never heard.

Finally, after the stands had emptied and the team had showered and left the locker room, the coach noticed that this young man was sitting quietly in the corner all alone The coach came to him and said, " Kid, I can‘t believe it. You were fantastic! Tell me what got into you? How did you do it?"

He looked at the coach, with tears in his eyes, and said, "Well, you knew my dad died, but did you know that my dad was blind?" The young man swallowed hard and forced a smile, "Dad came to all my games, but today was the first time he could see me play, and I wanted to show him I could do it!"

Like the athlete‘s father, God is always there cheering for us. He‘s always reminding us to go on. He‘s even offering us His hand for He knows what is best, and is willing to give us what we need and not simply what we want. GOD has never missed a single game. What a joy to know that life is meaningful if lived for the Highest. Live for HIM for He‘s watching us in the game of life!

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篇11:英语故事:白雪公主SnowWhite

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Snow-white

Once there was a Queen. She was sitting at the window. There was snow outside in the garden-snow on the hill and in the lane, snow on the hunts and on the trees: all things were white with snow.

The Queen was making a coat for a little child. She said, "I want my child to be white as this cloth, white as the snow. And I shall call her Snow-white."

Some days after that the Queen had a child. The child was white as snow. The Queen called her Snow-white.

But the Queen was very ill, and after some days she died. Snow-white lived, and was a very happy and beautiful child.

One year after that, the King married another Queen. The new Queen was very beautiful; but she was not a good woman.

A wizard had given this Queen a glass. The glass could speak. It was on the wall in the Queens room. Every day the queen looked in the glass to see how beautiful she was. As she looked in the glass, she asked: "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass spoke and said: "The Queen is most beautiful of all."

Year went by. Snow-white grew up and became a little girl. every day the Queen looked in the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" And the glass said, "Snow-white is most beautiful of all."

When the Queen heard this, she was very angry. She said, "Snow-white is not more beautiful than I am. There is no one who is more beautiful than I am."

Then the Queen sat on her bed and cried.

After one hour the Queen went out of her room. She called one of the servants, and said, "Take Snow-white into the forest and kill her."

The servant took Snow-white to the forest, but he did not kill her, because she was so beautiful and so good. He said, "I shall not kill you; but do not go to the Kings house, because the Queen is angry and she will see you. If the Queen sees you, she will make some other man kill you. Wait here in the forest; some friends will help you." Then he went away.

Poor Snow-white sat at the foot of a tree and cried. Then she saw that night was coming. She said, "I will not cry. I will find some house where I can sleep tonight. I cannot wait here: the bears will eat me."

She went far into the forest. Then she saw a little hut. She opened the door of the hut, and went in. In the hut she saw seven little beds. There was a table, and on the table there were seven little loaves and seven little glasses. She ate one of the loaves. Then she said, "I want some water to drink." So she drank some water out of one of the glasses. Then she fell asleep on one of the seven little beds.

The hut was the home of seven Little Men. When it was night, the seven Little Men came to the hut. Each Little Man had a big beard, and a little blue coat. Each Little Man came into the hut, and took his little lamp. Then each Little Man sat down, and ate his little loaf, and drank his little glass of water.

But one Little Man said, "Someone has eaten my little loaf." And another Little Man said, "Someone has drunk my little glass of water." Then the seven Little Men went to bed, but one Little Man said, "Someone is sleeping on my little bed." All the seven Little Men came to look at Snow-white as she slept on the Little Mens bed. They said, "She is very beautiful."

Snow-white awoke, and saw the seven Little Men with their big beards standing near her bed. She was afraid. The Little men said, "Do not be afraid. We are your friends. Tell us how you came here." Snow-white said, "I will tell you." Then she told them her story.

They said, "Do not be afraid. Live here with us. But see that the door shut when we are not in the house with you. Do not go out. If you go out, the bad Queen will find you. Then she will know that you are not dead, and will tell someone to kill you." So Snow-white lived in the hut with the seven Little Men.

After some days Snow-white went into the garden. One of the Queens servants was going through the forest, and he saw her. He went and told the Queen, "Snow-white is in a hut in the forest." The Queen was very angry when she heard that Snow-white was not dead.

The Queen took an apple. She made a hole in the red side of the apple, and put some powder into the hole. Then she put on old clothes and went to the hut. She called, "Is any one there?" Snow-white opened the door, and came out to her. The Queen said, "I have some pretty apples. Eat one of my pretty apples." Snow-white took the apple and said, "Is it good?" The Queen said, "See, I will eat this white side of the apple; you eat the red side. Then you will know that it is good."

Snow-white ate the red side of the apple. When the powder was in her mouth, she fell down dead. The Queen went back to her house. She went into her room. she looked into the glass and said, "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?" The glass said, "The Queen is most beautiful of all." Then the Queen know that Snow-white was dead.

The Little Men came back to the hut. When they saw that Snow-white was dead, the poor Little Men cried. Then they put Snow-white in a box made of glass. They took the glass box to a hill and put it there, and said, "Everyone who goes by will see how beautiful she was." Then each Little Man put one white flower on the box, and they went away.

Just as they were going away, a Prince came by. He saw the glass box and said, "What is that?" Then he saw Snow-white in the box. He said, "She was very beautiful: but do not put her there. There is a hall in the garden of my fathers house. It is all made of white stone. We will take the glass box and put it in the hall of beautiful white stone."

The Little Men said, "Take her." Then the Prince told his servants to take up the box. They took up the box. Just then one of the servants fell down. The box fell, and Snow-white fell with the box. The bit of apple fell out of her mouth: she awoke, and sat up, and said, "Where am I?"

The Prince said, "You are with me. I never saw anyone as beautiful as you. Come with me and be my Queen."

The Prince married Snow-white, and she became his Queen.

A man went and told this to the bad Queen. When she heard it she was so angry that she fell down dead.

Snow-white lived and was very happy ever after. And the Little Men came to see her every year.

白雪公主

从前,有一个王后,她坐在窗户旁。窗外的花园里积满了雪,山上是雪,小路上是雪,树上和屋顶上也积着雪,万物一片白茫茫。她手中拿着些布和一枚针,她手中的不就像雪一样洁白。王后正在为小孩做一件上衣,她说:“我想我的孩子能够像这布一样白,想雪一样白,我要叫她白雪公主。”

几天之后,王后生了个小孩,这个孩子白得像雪一样,王后给她取名为“白雪公主”。但是,王后得了重病,几天以后就去世了。白雪公主活了下来,她是一个十分幸福和美丽的孩子。

王后去世一年以后,国王又娶了一位王后。新王后十分漂亮,但是,她不是一个善良的女人。一个巫师给了新王后一面镜子,这面镜子会说话,它挂在王后房间的墙上,每天王后照着镜子,欣赏自己多么漂亮。当她照镜子的时候,她问:“告诉我,墙上的魔镜,谁是世界上最漂亮的人?”于是魔镜开口说道:“王后是世界上最漂亮的。”

过了数年,白雪公主长成大人了。当白雪公主是一个年轻姑娘时,有一天,王后照着镜子说:“告诉我,墙上的魔镜,谁是世界上最漂亮的?”魔镜说:“白雪公主是世界上最漂亮的。”

当王后听到这些话时,非常恼怒,她说:“白雪公主没有我漂亮,没有一个人比我更漂亮。”然后,王后坐在床上哭了。一小时后,王后从她的房间走出来,她叫来一个仆人说:“把白雪公主带到森林中杀掉。”

仆人带着白雪公主到了森林,但他没有杀死她,因为她太美丽太善良了。他说:“我不会杀死你的,但是,你不能回王宫,因为,王后很生气,她会看到你的。如果王后发现你,她会让别人杀死你的。你就呆在森林里,会有朋友来帮助你的。”然后,他走了。

可怜的白雪公主坐在一棵树底下哭了,这时,她看到天快黑了,她说:“我不哭了,我要找所房子今晚好睡觉,我不能呆在这儿了,熊会吃了我的。”她往森林深处走去,这时,她发现了一座小屋,她打开小屋的门,走了进去。在小屋里,她看到七张小床,还有一张桌子,桌子上有七块小面包和七个小杯子。她吃了其中一块面包,然后说:“我想喝点水。”于是,她又喝了一个杯子中的一些水。之后,她躺在一张小床上睡着了。

这座小屋是七个小矮人的家。当天黑下来的时候,七个小矮人回到小屋。每个小矮人都留着一副大胡子,穿一件小蓝上衣。小矮人进了小屋,每个人都点上他们的小灯,然后,小矮人都坐下,开始吃面包,喝小杯里的水。

但是,一个小矮人说:“有人把我小面包吃了。”另一个小矮人说:“有人把我的小杯子里的水喝了。”然后,七个小矮人去睡觉。可是一个小矮人说:“有人正睡在我的小床上。”七个小矮人都过来看睡在小矮人床上的白雪公主。他们说:“她真漂亮。”

白雪公主醒了,发现七个留着大胡子的小矮人正站在她床旁,她很害怕。小矮人们说:“别害怕,我们是你的好朋友,告诉我们你是怎么来这儿的。”白雪公主说:“我告诉你们。”接着她就给他们讲述了自己的经历。他们说:“不要害怕。就在这儿和我们住在一起,但是,我们不在家的时候,你一定要关上门,千万别出去。如果你出去了,坏王后会发现你,这样,她知道你没有死,会让人来杀死你。”于是,白雪公主和七个小矮人在这座小屋里生活着。

几天以后,白雪公主去了一趟花园。王后的一个仆人正经过这片森林,他发现了阿。他回去告诉了王后:“白雪公主在森林的一座小屋里。”王后听说白雪公主没有死,十分恼火。

王后拿来一个苹果,她在苹果红的一边挖了一个洞,把一些毒的粉末放在这个洞里。然后,她穿上一身旧衣服,去了小屋。她喊:“屋里有人吗?”白雪公主打开门,出来见她。王后说:“我有一些漂亮的苹果,吃一个尝尝吧?”白雪公主拿着苹果说:“这好吃吗?”王后说:“瞧,我吃苹果白的一半,你吃红的一半,你会知道它味道不错。”白雪公主吃了苹果红的一半,当粉末进入她嘴里时,她倒下去死了。

王后回到家,进了自己的房间,对着镜子说:“告诉我,墙上的魔镜,谁是世界上最漂亮的。”魔镜说:“王后是世界上最漂亮的。”于是,王后知道白雪公主已经死了。

小矮人们回到小屋,发现白雪公主死了。可怜的小矮人们全都哭了。然后,他们把白雪公主放进玻璃棺材里,并把它抬到山坡上,安放在那里,说:“每位经过这里的人都会看见她是多么美丽。”接着每个小矮人在棺材上放了一朵白花,然后离开了。

他们刚刚要离开,一位王子从此经过,他看着玻璃棺材说:“那是什么?”这时,他发现白雪公主躺在里面,他说:“她太美丽了,把能把她放在这里,在父亲的王宫里有一座大厅,整个大厅都是用白石头砌成,我们把玻璃棺材搬到那所漂亮的白石大厅里。”小矮人们说:“抬走她吧。”

然后,王子告诉他的仆人抬起棺材。他们抬起它时,不巧一个仆人跌倒了。把棺材也摔到地上,白雪公主随同棺材跌了下来,那块苹果从她嘴里掉了出来,她醒了过来,坐起来说:“我这是在哪儿?”王子说:“你跟我在一起,我从来没有见过一位像你这么美丽的人,跟我来,做我的王后吧。”王子和白雪公主结婚了,她成了王后。

一个人去把这些消息告诉了坏王后,当她听到这些,气得倒下死去了。从那以后,白雪公主一直生活得很幸福。每年小矮人们都来看她。

New Words and Expressions 生词和词组:

wizard n. 男巫

hut n. 茅舍,小屋

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篇12:英语呼啸山庄读后感

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导语:《呼啸山庄》是英国女作家勃朗特姐妹之一艾米莉·勃朗特的作品,是19世纪英国文学的代表作之一。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语读后感,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!

Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emilys sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.

Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again

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《呼啸山庄》于1847出版,受到了公众的好评,许多人谴责它是肮脏的,粗俗的,不自然的。作者艾米莉·简·勃朗特于1848年去了坟墓,认为她的唯一小说是失败的。直到1850,当呼啸山庄收到了艾米丽的妹妹夏洛特介绍的第二次印刷,吸引了广大读者。从那一刻起,这本书的名声就再也没有回来了。今天,它被公认为是英国文学的伟大小说之一。

即便如此,呼啸山庄仍在划分读者。这不是一个美丽的爱情故事;相反,它是旋转的基本上使人陷入痴迷的爱转向黑暗的疯狂故事。这是残酷,暴力,黑暗和沉思,许多人觉得非常不愉快。然而,它拥有一个伟大的语言和设计,一种巨大的同情和巨大的损失,使它除了几乎所有其他小说写。

小说以一种扩展倒叙的形式讲述。在拜访他的奇怪的地主,新领域的欲望知道历史的家庭他接到Nelly Deans的一个仆人向我们介绍了Earnshaw家族曾经居住在房子被称为呼啸山庄。这是一次愉快的地方,但老萧采取“吉普赛”的孩子,他叫Heathcliff。凯瑟琳,房子的女儿,在他身上找到了完美的伴侣:野蛮,粗鲁,骄傲和残忍,因为她。但尽管凯瑟琳爱他,甚至承认他是她的灵魂伴侣,她不能降低自己结婚到目前为止,低于她的社会地位。她反而嫁给另一个人,在这样做设置运动的痴迷,将摧毁他们所有。

《呼啸山庄》有点难以进入;开头的章节是如此黑暗,在他们对这种痴迷的爱的结局的描绘中,他们有点偏离了现实。但他们以非凡的方式投入到作品的流动中,为所有文学中最显著的结构之一搭建舞台,这是一个在两个世代中上演的一连串重复的故事。凯瑟琳和希刺克厉夫同样了不起,既邪恶又残忍,但无论怎样残忍地伤害一个人,他们都无法摆脱不可能的爱。

作为新型线圈进一步转化为酒精中毒,诱惑,和一个最精心想象的计划报复并汇总成幽灵般的语气:希刺克厉夫,疯狂的女人是不存在的但他似乎反映在他的世界的每一个部分--从坟墓里拖着她的尸体,听见她叫他从摩尔人,升级他的残忍不残忍的缘故,但她那永不褪色的记忆里,让她永远直到死亡本身离开他的脑海。是的,这是疯狂的,疯狂的,没有和平这一边的坟墓,甚至超越。

这是一个惊人的小说,恐怖的,无情的,令人不安,充满了无尽的激情使人畏缩。即使你不喜欢它,你也应该至少读一次,而那些喜欢它的人会一次又一次地回到它

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篇13:初一《海底两万里》读后感600字

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读这本书时,只有一个愿望,那就是与尼摩船长一起驾着“鹦鹉螺”去探索海底世界,叩问海底秘密。故事发生于1866年一件闹的满城风雨的怪事,许多船只在海上发现了“怪物”,法国生物学家阿龙纳斯教授受邀追逐“怪物”,谁知落入水中,却被“怪物”所俘虏,由此开始了一段奇妙的海底之旅。最后不堪海底的沉闷,想方设法,重回陆地。

谁也不曾想到,那海中“怪物”是一艘潜艇。主人是尼摩船长,尼摩船长因为恨世界,恨人类……才想在海的世界中找到安宁。

文章中,我最钦佩的人就是尼摩船长。他的财富可以偿清上百亿的国债并且毫不费力。他勇敢,面对章鱼他义不容辞的上前战斗,面对鲨鱼,他手持匕首,与鲨鱼展开肉搏。抓住鱼鳍,用匕首刺鲨鱼肚子,鲨鱼一命呼吁。 他善良,虽说自己已与人类社会隔离,但仍然同情采珠人,爱惜自己的每一个船员和善良、可怜的人们。他沉着冷静,当“鹦鹉螺”陷入南极的冰道时,尼摩船长冷静而沉着的指挥大家把冰敲碎,走出困境。

读完这本书,只能让人赞叹。真是一部伟大的科幻文学作品呀!只能让人佩服作者的写作高超,在描写险象环生时,又从另一面描写出了浪漫迷人,两者之间,又开阔了眼界。险象环生:凶恶的大白鲨,难缠的章鱼……危险无处不在!浪漫迷人:美丽的海底森林和珊瑚王国,神秘宝藏和沉船残骸……开阔眼界:从未见过的海底生物,先进的“鹦鹉螺”让我们不知不觉中增长了生物、科技与地理知识。

在这部小说中的尼摩艇长和阿龙纳斯先生的对话中,给了我很多的人生启示,使我懂得了许多许多道理;但愿尼摩艇长的探索精神的火焰将长久地在我心中燃烧下去,直到永远……

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篇14:初一的红楼梦的读后感

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闲读《红楼梦》,赞黛玉之风华绝代;叹黛玉之才华横溢;怜黛玉之命途坎坷。潇湘馆那幽深的竹林里,藏着林黛玉多少哀怨愁思。

"心较比干多一窍, 病若西子胜三分。"

出身书香门第,列侯世家。父亲风流儒雅,母亲温婉贤良,黛玉身为名门娇女,享尽父母呵护宠爱,自幼得到悉心教养,本应无忧无虑,快乐成长。然而事与愿违,母亲经受不住失子之痛身染重疾而撒手人寰,父亲也为朝廷鞠躬尽瘁。年幼的黛玉痛失双亲,父母留给他的只有病弱的身体和满腹的才华。小小年纪便寄人篱下,本应天真烂漫的小黛玉学会了察言观色,养成了敏感细腻的心思。黛玉的悲剧在她小时候就开始了。

"一年三百六十日,风刀霜剑严相逼。"

身处贾府,黛玉看似深受贾母疼爱,可与宝玉比肩,还有众多姊妹陪伴,也应该健康成长才是,而细品《红楼》这些只是表象而已。黛玉初进贾府,两位舅舅都没有见她,两位舅母开始也还只是客气。而当家人二舅母王夫人后来对黛玉的厌恶之情竞溢于言表,公然在骂她不喜欢的丫头晴雯时捎带把黛玉也骂了,"很看不上她那狂样子".看似疼爱她的贾母,在她到贾府时还没为她准备房间;在除夕夜宴上,只因黛玉让贾宝玉替自己饮酒,贾母便借批书含沙射影指责黛玉行为不检点。所谓至亲骨肉就是这样用一些貌似无心的行为凌迟着黛玉敏感脆弱的心。使得她在大观园锦衣玉食却孤苦无依。潇湘妃子之诗风流别致,却有着抹不去的哀伤,一首《葬花吟》正是她自己的悲歌。

"香魂一缕随风散,愁绪三更入梦遥。"

贾府张灯结彩鼓乐齐鸣迎娶新妇之时,无人关注,凄冷的潇湘馆里,林黛玉焚稿断痴情,含恨而终,结束了她短暂而悲苦的生命。黛玉如花,但尚未绽放就被狂风吹断。她与宝玉的爱情,是黛玉之幸,也是黛玉之大不幸。虽然宝玉给了黛玉无微不至的关心和体贴,却也带给她无尽的烦恼忧思。还泪之说,并非空谈,最后他更让黛玉痛彻心扉,寒心绝望,生无可恋,抑郁惨死。黛玉的悲剧,在于封建礼教对女子的摧残,对女孩的苛刻,是封建婚姻葬送了黛玉的爱情,世俗礼教剥夺了黛玉年轻的生命!

昔日潇湘才冠群芳,今日潇湘芳魂早逝。品读《红楼》,不得不叹黛玉之悲剧。

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篇15:祖国的变化初一英语作文_初一年级英语作文500字

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Great changes have taken place in China. Many new buildings have been built in cities, towns and villages.

The more cars we have, the more crowed the roads are. So the roads become wider and wider. Many overpasseshave been built in big cities. Chinese people’s life is much better than ever before. We have Tv sets, washing machines, fridges, even computers, cars etc.

We’ll study harder and make our countrry stronger and more beautiful.

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篇16:书虫系列英语读后感

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“在期待中失望,在孤独中疗伤,在告别后坚强,受伤也绝不投降。”这是影片的片尾曲,也概括出哪吒的成长经历。

哪吒本应该是灵珠转世的大英雄,但因为申公豹的阻挠,意外成为无恶不作的魔丸转世,并且三年后的生辰将有天雷下凡劈裂魔丸。哪吒刚出生就被大家当做妖怪关在家里,不能出去玩。

一岁的哪吒想出去和小朋友们玩,偷偷溜出家门,却被大家排挤欺负。“既然人们说我是妖怪,我就当妖怪给他们瞧瞧!”哪吒越来越空虚,李靖夫妇希望哪吒振作起来,斩妖除魔保护百姓,为了鼓励哪吒,谎称他是灵珠转世,哪吒信以为真,拜太乙真人为师,学习法术。在一次捉妖救下小女孩时,认识了真正灵珠转世的敖丙,两人成了彼此唯一的朋友,但是又被陈塘关的百姓误会。禁足家中。人心中的成见就犹如一座大山,任凭你如何去努力也无法移动它,哪吒十分想被人们接受认可,但他每次满心期待地尝试,换来的却是人们的排挤谩骂。

哪吒兴高采烈地邀请唯一的朋友敖丙参加自己的三岁生日宴会,全然不知他才是自己最大的敌人。生日宴会上得知自己身份的哪吒走火入魔,六亲不认,敖丙及时控制住了他,却暴露了龙族的身份,迫不得已的敖丙决定埋掉陈塘关,而此时的哪吒从一个杀人不眨眼的混世魔王变成了守护全村百姓的大英雄,打破了敖丙的计谋。

“若命运不公,就和他斗到底!”敖丙和哪吒合力抵抗天雷,经过太乙真人的帮助,保住了魂魄。这部电影中有许多令人难忘的地方:“白白搭上一条命,你傻不傻?”“不傻,谁和你做朋友?”哪吒与敖丙真挚的友情感动了我;“我命由我不由天,是魔是神,我自己说了算!”“我的命我自己扛!”哪吒不屈不挠的精神触碰到了我。

生活中,像哪吒这样向命运斗争的人仅有区区几个呢?人们通常遇到一些困难挫折就会说命该如此、命中注定、听天由命吧!哪吒虽然是魔丸转世,虽然也有过,但最终还是突破了自我,勇于抗争命运,改变了人们对他的成见,成为百姓心中的大英雄,这种精神值得我们学习,做最好的自己,也会成为自己心中的英雄!

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篇17:书虫系列英语读后感

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今天下午,何老师给我们看了一部电影,它的名字叫《背着爸爸去上学》,这部电影主要内容是讲,一个穷人家里有一个女孩和一个男孩,那个穷人家里只有一点点钱,只可以送一个人去上学,穷人就用了转勺子的方法,勺子指向谁,谁就去上学,转呀转,勺子转向了男孩,爸爸就决定让男孩去上学。

一天在小男孩上学过河的时候,天下着倾盆大雨,小男孩穿着雨衣走上河面,走着走着就碰见了他们同班的一个女同学,她打着伞和小男孩一起走到了河的中间,这里雨越下越大了,在小男孩不注意的时候,那个小男孩回过头来时小女孩早就被淹死了,小男孩害怕极了,他连忙跑回家躲起来了。当他爸爸说:“你们学到了第几课?”小男孩说:“我们学到了八课。”爸爸知道他们根本没学到八课,也知道他这几天没去上学,拿起棒子打了起来,这时小男孩的姐姐看到了就说:“别打了!别打拉!”第二天小男孩的爸爸怕他又不去上学就背着他过了这条河,送他去上学。

日子一天天过去,小男孩一天天的长大了,是中学的一名学生了,他的成绩非常的好,后来小男孩考上了大学,就是因为爸爸得了一场疾病,他的大学学校在很远很远的地方,但他爸爸又生病了,那么远的学校读书他实在放心不下,于是他决定背着爸爸去上学,这一路特别辛苦,这一部电影就没有了。

我最感动的是,那个小男孩背着他爸爸去上学的那一小节,这可以说是这个小男孩是一个懂事,也很孝顺的好孩子。我觉得我平时对爸爸妈妈的态度不太好,还在家里什么都惹您生气,我在这里对您说声:“对不起。”爸爸妈妈我会继续努力学习每一年都会用很好的成绩报答您的。

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篇18:初一英语作文辅导

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My favourate animal is panda.i think panda is the cutist animal in the

world.It has black and white fur and especially it have black fur around eyes

which looks like wear a pair of sunglasses.

Panda likes banboo shoots and leaves a lot.I saw panda ate apply and cakes

in Zoo before,but I know in nature world they would not eat these things.

Now almost everyone in the world love panda,but only China has panda.

So as a Chinese I feel proud to be born in a country has panda.

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篇19:金银岛英语读后感

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Today, one of the worlds ten most famous "treasure island" shows me a thrilling journey of treasure hunting.

Treasure Island is the famous work of 19 famous English writer Robert Luis Stevenson. As the most widely circulated pirate adventure novel in the world, it mainly tells the story of a young man named Jim Hawkins, who discovered a treasure map, followed by the adventures of the people who sought adventure and treasure hunt. In the book of the figure, brave Jim, Silver, play a double game calm wisdom of the worthy Doctor Lee have left a deep impression on me. The plot of the novel is tortuous and full of adventure and fun, which gives me an unexpected and profound experience!

At the beginning of the expedition, Jim was just a waiter in a hotel called "Admiral Bao", struggling to fight the enemy, then recapture the ship from the pirates and pretend to be the new captain. He is with courage and courage, by a timid and overcautious boy became a hero back the ship. Although he was very impulsive, but he showed extraordinary courage and courage enough to admire me. Think about ourselves, sometimes encounter problems, they stumble, instead of trying to find ways to become dejected and despondent, to solve the problem. Just think, if we also have the spirit of Jims courage to try and dare to explore, many problems can not be solved easily?

Yes, as long as we dare to explore and meet difficulties, our life will be more colorful!

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篇20:英语哲理故事长AttitudeisEverything

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Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don‘t get it! You can‘t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.‘ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right, it‘s not that easy," I protested.

"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It‘s your choice how you live life."

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I‘d be twins. Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.

"Weren‘t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He‘s a dead man. " I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,‘ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!‘ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

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