關於大學英語美文摘抄

　　大學英語教材是實施大學英語教育的關鍵和重要媒介。隨著學英語教材形式的多樣化,其質量也參差不齊。選擇合適的教材前對教材進行分析和評估就顯得尤其重要。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　Everything happens for the best

　　"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment."

　　Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. Ihitchhiked搭便車 to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned down every time.

　　In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance," she said.

　　I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While them was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father sad Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.

　　My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.

　　As I left his office, my frustration boiled over沸溢，發怒 . I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"

　　I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game.

　　On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "if you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment". I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

　　篇二

　　Keep the candle lightedA man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived for her—she was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth竭盡全力 to bring about her restoration to health.

　　His best efforts, however, proved unavailing無效的，徒勞的 and the child died. The father became a bitter recluse隱士 , shutting himself away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a dream.

　　He was in heaven, witnessing a grand巨集偉的 pageant盛會，遊行 of all the little child angels. They were marching in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child carried a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little girl. Rushing to her, he seized her in his arms, caressed her tenderly, and then asked, “How is it, darling, that your candle alone is unlighted?” “Daddy, they often relight it, but your tears always put it out.”

　　Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear極其明白 , and its effects were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but mingled融合 freely and cheerfully with his former friends and associates. No longer would his darling’s candle be extinguished by his useless tears.

　　篇三

　　Put the goal in your heart

　　When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.

　　Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.

　　On that Fourth of July morning in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense she could hardly see her support boats.

　　Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn’t much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to quit. She never had...until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.

　　Still warming her chilled冷凍了的 body several hours later, she told a reporter, "Look, I’m not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land I might have made it." It was not fatigue疲勞 or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was unable to see her goal.

　　Two months later, she tried again. This time, despite the same dense fog, she swam with her faith and her goal clearly pictured in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she made it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, eclipsing the men’s record by two hours!