初中生英语美文摘抄大全

初中生英语美文摘抄大全

在我国,英语教学仍然主要是在英语课堂中进行,对于绝大多数中学生来说,英语课堂便是他们接触英语、使用英语的主要场所。下面是店铺带来的初中生英语美文摘抄，欢迎阅读!

初中生英语美文摘抄篇一

How Small People Make A Big Difference Repression

Today, as I was relaxing at the beach, I couldn't help but

eavesdrop(窃听，偷听)on a conversation four high school kids we

having on the beach blanket next to me. Their conversation was

about making a positive difference in the world. And it went

something like this…

"It's impossible to make a difference unless you're a huge

corporation or someone with lots of money and power," one of

them said.

"Yeah man," another replied. "My mom keeps telling me to

move mountains – to speak up and stand up for what I believe.

But what I say and do doesn't even get noticed. I just keep

answering to ‘the man’ and then I get slapped back(山谷回声)

in place by him when I step out of line."

"Repression…" another snickered.

I smiled because I knew exactly how they felt. When I was

their age, I was certain I was being repressed and couldn't

possibly make a difference in this world. And I actually almost got

expelled from(驱逐，开除) school once because I openly

expressed how repressed I felt in the middle of the principals’

office.

I Have A Dream

Suddenly, one of the kids noticed me eavesdropping and

smiling. He sat up, looked at me and said, "What? Do you

disagree?" Then as he waited for a response, the other three kids

turned around too.

Rather than arguing with them, I took an old receipt(收据)

out of my wallet,ripped(撕，扯) it into four pieces, and wrote a

different word on each piece. Then I crumbled the pieces into

little paper balls and handed a different piece to each one of

them.

"Look at the word on the paper I just gave you and don't

show it to anyone else." The kids looked at the single word I had

handed each of them and appeared confused. "You have two

choices," I told them. "If your word inspired you to make a

difference in this world, then hold onto it. If not, give it back to

me so I can recycle the paper." They all returned their words.

I scooted(快走) over, sat down on the sand next to their beach

blanket and laid out the four words that the students had

returned to me so that the words combined to form the simple

sentence, "I have a dream."

"Dude, that's Martin Luther King Jr.," one of the kids said.

"How did you know that?" I asked.

"Everyone knows Martin Luther King Jr." the kid snarled. "He

has his own national holiday, and we all had to memorize his

speech in school a few years ago."

"Why do you think your teachers had you memorize his

speech?" I asked.

"I don't really care!" the kid replied. His three friends shook

their heads in agreement. "What does this have to do with us and

our situation?"

"Your teachers asked you to memorize those words, just like

thousands of teachers around the world have asked students to

memorize those words, because they have inspired millions of

repressed people to dream of a better world and take action to

make their dreams come true. Do you see where I'm going with

this?"

"Man, I know exactly what you're trying to do and it's not

going to work, alright?" the fourth kid said, who hadn't spoken a

word until now. "We're not going to get all inspired and

emotional about something some dude said thirty years ago. Our

world is different now. And it's more screwed up than any us can

even begin to imagine, and there's little you or I can do about it.

We're too small, we're nobody."

Together

I smiled again because I once believed and used to say

similar things. Then after holding the smile for a few seconds I

said, "On their own, ‘I' or ‘have’ or ‘a’ or ‘dream’ are

just words. Not very compelling or inspiring. But when you put

them together in a certain order, they create a phrase that has

been powerful enough to move millions of people to take action

– action that changed laws, perceptions, and lives. You don't need

to be inspired or emotional to agree with this, do you?"

The four kids shrugged and struggled to appear totally

indifferent, but I could tell they were listening intently. "And

what's true for words is also true for people," I continued. "One

person without help from anyone else can't do much to make a

sizable difference in this crazy world - or to overcome all of the

various forms ofrepression(抑制，压抑) that exist today. But when

people get together and unite to form something more powerful

and meaningful then themselves, the possibilities are endless.

Together is how mountains are moved. Together is how small

people make a big difference.

初中生英语美文摘抄篇二

Camp in a California wilderness"It was like lying in a great

solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by

the hand of man," wrote Teddy Roosevelt, of camping in Yosemite

Park.

At about 4 am, after hours of being unable to sleep; of

shivering(颤抖) in the cold mountain air – despite going to bed

fully dressed and with a wool hat pulled down over my ears – and

trying to silence my crying kids who kept waking up

andwhimpering(幽咽) in the chill; of futilely attempting to find a

position on the air mattress that didn't send my lower back into

spasms(肌痉挛) ; of listening to sounds that might or might not

have been a bear sniffing around outside our tent, I finally

couldn't stand it any more.

I simply had to pee. Gritting my teeth, I turned on a flashlight,

put on my shoes, unzipped the door of my tent, stumbled out

into the night, and made a dash for the pit-toilet at the edge of

the camp site.

There was no bear. But there were an impossibly large

number of stars twinkling above.

I peed, ran back to my tent, and half-slept till dawn.

Hours later, as the sun crept up over the edge of the

awesome Lassen peak – the jagged relic of a powerful volcanic

explosion that strewed boulders over hundreds of square miles –

in the remote northeast of California, I pulled my sleeping bag

over my head and whined(发牢骚) exhaustedly that "everything

has gone wrong."

Like so many other grouchy early morning, pre-coffee

utterances(表达，说话) I make, this one was ludicrously off-key.

Things weren't wrong; they were right.

My wife and I were in one tent with our two young kids; our

friends Jessica and Michael, and their two children, were in

another. A hundred yards away was Summit Lake, the glorious

early morning mists shimmering off the water. A couple miles to

the south-west was the base of the Lassen Peak Trail. The base

was 8,000ft above sea level, huge snowbanks dotting the

landscape even in mid August. The peak of the volcano soared

2,500ft above, its ragged tree line halfway up, marking the outer

limits of ecological regeneration following a series of hundreds

of "minor" eruptions in the early 20th century that were

immortalised in the photographs of BF Loomis.

Above, lay a rocky, craggy(崎岖的) moonscape. Further west

still was Bumpass Hell, an inferno of bubbling, sulphurous(含硫磺的) mud and water, with plumes of steam rising up through the

delicate crust surrounding the cauldrons.

We fired up the camp stove, got out our cold boxes from the

heavy metal bear-locker, fried up some bacon, cut open some

bagels, and boiled up a thermos-full of coffee.

Half an hour later, my six-year-old daughter and I were in the

parking lot of the Lassen peak trail, getting ready to hike as far

as we could up the mountainside. We wouldn't make it all the

way – young legs get pretty tired on a steep mountain trail in the

thin air two miles above sea level – but it didn't matter. We would

see nature at its extremes: grand vistas spread out below us, the

volcanic ash that layered on the earth turning the melting snows

an eerie pink as the sun struck it; the blues of the sky shading

into the blues of distant lakes, which in turn shaded into the

whites and pinks and grays of the snowpack.

My daughter grabbed my camera. She wanted to take a

photo of "the composite" of colours. Looking out over that

landscape, and seeing my daughter grappling with the

immensity of nature, I felt stupid about my morning tirade(长篇大论) .

Yes, camping is uncomfortable. And yes, there's a lot to be

said for getting out a credit card, reserving a room in a nice hotel

with a large TV in front of which to park the kids, and going out

for a fancy meal and a good glass of wine. But there's also

something infinitely wonderful about being so close to raw

nature. And, as important, there's something vital about getting

young children out of their increasingly technology-padded

comfort zones and forcing them to encounter the non-cyber

world around them.

We lose something when we spend all our time cocooned(紧紧包住) inside a carefully constructed modernity, when we read

about daily affronts to the environment – yet, removed from the

majesty of nature, don't fully realise what is at stake. It's a good

thing to reconnect every so often with the Great Outdoors.

Lassen has no hotels. If you want to see the splendours of

this landscape, you have no choice but to stay in one of the

campsites(露营营地) nestling on the edge of the lakes and against

the sides of the mountains.

After camping in Yosemite, Teddy Roosevelt once declared

that "It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and

more beautiful than any built by the hand of man." That

sentiment holds as true today as it did in Roosevelt's time. What

a wondrous thing is nature. And what a joy to see a child grasp

that simple truth.

初中生英语美文摘抄篇三

The Life I Pursued

That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the

pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a

placid(平静的，温和的) rivulet(小溪，小河) ,meandering(漫步)

smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees,

till at last it falls into the vastly sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent,

so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague(模糊的)

uneasiness(不安，担忧) .

Perhaps it is only by a kink(扭结，奇想) in my nature, strong

in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share

of the great majority, somethingamiss(有毛病的，有缺陷的) . I

recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a

fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.

There seemed to me something alarming in such easy

delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was

not unprepared for jagged(锯齿状的) rocks and treacherous(奸诈的，叛逆的) , shoals(浅滩，沙洲) it I could only have change-change and the excitement of unforeseen.