4-5篇英语短文(初一水平!!)

A teacher asked her students to write a paper. She told the class , “Write about what you would do if you had a million dollars . Do you all understand ?”
The students said they understood . Then they all began writing .They wrote for an hour , except for one student , Terry Jones . He wrote for only half a minute and then only sat at his desk . He didn’t write another word .
At the end of the class , the students gave their papers to the teacher . She looked at them all as the students gave them to her . Finally , she saw Terry’s paper .
“This is what I would do if I had a million dollars , ” she read . There was nothing else on the page . She looked at Terry .
“I don’t understand ,” she said . “Everyone except you has written two pages . You wrote only one line . After that, you’ve done nothing .”
“That’s right ,” Terry said . “ If I had a million dollars , that’s what I would do . Nothing .” 买《成功英语阅读》，这书好~ 2.和买驴的人

A man wanted to buy an ass. He went to the market, and saw a likely one. But he wanted to

test him first. So he took the ass home, and put him into the stable with the other asses.

The new ass looked around, and immediately went to choose a place next to the laziest ass in

the stable. When the man saw this he put a halter on the ass at once, and gave him back to

his owner. The owner felt quite surprised. He asked the man, "Why are you back so soon? Have

you tested him already?" "I don't want to test him any more," replied the man, "From the

companion he chose for himself, I could see what sort of animal he is."

中文：一个买主到市场上去买驴，他看中一头外表不错的驴，但是他想要牵走试一试。他把驴牵回家，放

在自己其他的驴之间，这驴四处看看，立即走向一头好吃懒做的驴旁边。于是，买驴的人立刻给那头驴套

上辔头，牵去还给驴的卖主。卖主感到很奇怪，他问买主：“你怎么这么快就回来了？”买主说：“不必

再试了，从他所选择什么样的朋友来看，我已经知道他是什么样了。”

3.The Looney Bin
疯人院
Late one night at the insane asylum (疯人院）one inmate shouted, "I am Napoleon!"

Another one said, "How do you know?"

The first inmate said, "God told me!"

Just then, a voice from another room shouted, "I did not!"

一天晚上，在疯人院里，一个病人说："我是拿破仑！"另一个说："你怎么知道？"第一个人说："上帝对

我说的！"一会儿，一个声音从另一个房间传来："我没说！"

Notes:

（1）Looney (俚语）疯子

（2）inmate（n.同住者,同室者(特指在医院、监狱)）

（3）insane asylum (疯人院）

4.A mother mouse
老鼠的第二语言也重要
A mother mouse was out for a stroll with her babies when she

spotted a cat crouched behind a bush. She watched the cat, and

the cat watched the mice.

Mother mouse barked fiercely, "Woof, woof, woof!" The cat

was so terrified that it ran for it's life.

Mother mouse turned to her babies and said, "Now, do you

understand the value of a second language?"

一只母老鼠带着孩子出来散步，突然她看见一只猫正在灌木丛中虎视耽耽。

母老鼠向着猫叫道：“汪，汪，汪”，猫听了非常害怕，拼命跑走了。

母老鼠回过头洋洋自得的对孩子说：“现在你知道外语的重要性了吧。”

1.In this unusual year, the number of tragic, how many have touched, how many dreams, how much glory there is, bearing in mind the hearts of the people in China, written into the history of the Republic.
The success of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese people realize the dream of a century. Chinese athletes to outstanding athletic ability and indomitable fighting spirit of the first gold medal total to create the best score in history.
Win back the Shenzhou VII, the three astronauts returned to space out all smiles. Shenzhou VII manned space mission a complete success, the implementation of China's space technology development milestone major leap forward, the people of China are climbing the peak of world science and technology of another great feat, but also dedicated to the great homeland of the precious 60-year-old birthday present
2.General of the Chinese nation just like the Great Wall of steel indestructible! The return of Hong Kong in 1997, the return of Macao in 1999; in 1998 the south face of the history of a rare flood in 2003, the face of panic-stricken people of the SARS epidemic in 2008, some ten provinces in the face of the rare snow disaster, earthquake SichanWenchuan , the Chinese people united, will be suffering at the foot of resistance!
3.We firmly believe that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on the journey is bound to occur one after another glorious 30 years! The rise of the Chinese nation will surely make the world as we can be proud of!

4.Ha, the motherland, my mother, celebrates the quarter of your birthday 60 anniversaries in the joys, I have a boiling passion, thoughts and feelings surge.We want to speak to you how much considerate words son, have how much laudatory song son sing to you.60 years, at Be just fillip in the mankind's history long river a flick, however, great of the motherland occurrence turns over the variety that sky replies ground.Everywhere is change with each passing day of creation.Everywhere is canvass business to lead a property and promote the big current of economic development.I imitate the red ship that the Buddha sees south lake to bathe the gold Hui of the sun, to drive today.The red flag of well Kang-shan, the cuckoo smiles dimple and reflects the mountain is red of strong the United States is like of the red glow at sunset style style float.The hot breeze of pagoda mountain postpones arousing of river water wave, the story of green yarn debt rides on the Qiong syrup of yellow river and conceived the children of ten million heros.

5.The friends faces the sun, the autumnal winds sends great, let us stand ancient Great Wall up with deep feeling, with a kind of heroic, with a kind of rites of majesty, start to carry a gold cup, drink to heart's content a joys to celebrate of beautiful wine, lightly soft hand each inch of foot of land, bless our dear people Anne from country Tai in motherland together, have a bright future.

新概念上有很多英语小短文，有中文翻译，都很好，是我们的校本教材~

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