哲理文阅读篇

哲理文阅读篇 哲理文阅读篇 阅读快餐 心灵鸡汤 众所周知，阅读理解才能的培养是中学生英语教学的一个重要内容从长远看，中学阶段学生应初具英语阅读的一些才能与技巧，到大学得到进一步的强化和深造这样即使出来工作，没有老师，也有才能通过阅读报纸杂志，准确获得信息，为将来可持续开展打下根底对眼前的中学生而言，高考中的阅读局部占45分，而完形填空〔抽空局部内容让你重新填上的变相阅读〕占30分这样合计属于阅读的局部共占75分如此说来英语阅读才能无论对中学生眼前的高考还是对他们将来的生存，开展都至关重要于是走进书店，便会发现关于中学英语阅读方面的材料或题目多如牛毛，让学生眼花缭乱这些材料的内容包罗万象，涉及政治，经济，文化等各方面有关于大人物或小人物的幽默幽默的故事；有的让你理解外国的风土人情；有的是纯事实的介绍说明；有的是新闻，广告，书信或评论，不一而足这些阅读内容确实丰富了学生的知识面和信息量，也可以培养学生的阅读技能但光有知识和技能而思想浅薄，心灵空洞，智慧贫乏，幽默缺乏，想象局限的学生是不健全的，也为素质教育所不容忍为了填补中学英语阅读材料事实性强而思想性缺乏这一片空白，几年来，本人搜集了大量闪烁着哲理光芒，充满思想内涵的阅读文章，旨在培养学生阅读才能的同时，让其心灵同步成长，思想同步丰富，人格同步健全。

这里给读者的是我精选的45篇英文他们均摘自外国朋友送给我的书刊，杂志，原汁原味，而且词汇适中，合适中学生阅读为了帮助学生阅读，我给原文配上了生词注释，并设计了考虑问题，供学生考虑并加深对原文的理解今年，我带佛山一中高三毕业班，每节课给学生朗读一篇，把生词写在黑板上，不仅培养了学生的听力，扩大了其词汇量，更重要的是我感到我是在和学生共享一顿思想智慧的哲理快餐这些文章文字朴素优雅，观点新奇，总结干练深入有的开头引人入胜，有的中间高潮迭起，有的结尾出其不意，令人回味我从学生们专注的眼神，会意的微笑，紧锁双眉的深思中，热烈的讨论中看到了他们心灵的成长我真正到达了教书育人的目的，让他们的知识与思想比翼齐飞，既能与人格齐头并进 这45篇英文阅读涉及到人生的重要方面如：态度的重要性〔importance of attitude〕；成功〔success〕；动机〔motivation〕；自尊〔self-esteem〕；养成积极习惯与性格〔form positive habits and character〕；树立和到达目的〔setting and achieving goals〕；价值与视野〔values and vision〕。

这些内容从各个方面立体的塑造了人格和丰富了心灵，对正处于蓬勃向上的中学生来说是真正的精神营养快餐，心灵的鸡汤 如何看这部书呢？作为老师，可以把生词写在黑板上，读给学生听，可以将只作为很好的听力和扩大词汇量的材料，让学生为短文立个标题，培养学生概括技巧，可以提问文章里的细节内容，培养学生捕捉信息的才能，或不读结尾，让学生自己续写，培养他们的现象力和写作才能当然作重要的一点，不要只停留在读写的层面上，一定要走向理解，走向心灵的丰富和人格的成长，让学生通过讨论文章的哲理所在来做到这样作为学生，你可以按书上的要求答复下列问题，加深理解你也可以再早读时，把它们拿出来大声朗读因为这些美文充满了真善美，能令你振作，洗涤你的灵魂，还是精神的滋补品这种将智育，德育，美育三位一体的阅读文章定会令你眼前一亮，精神一振 不信？看着瞧吧！ 1 There was a man who made a living by selling balloons at a fair. He had all colors of balloons, including red, yellow, blue, and green. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium-filled balloon into the air and when the children saw it go up, they all wanted to buy one. They would e up to him, buy a balloon, and his sales would go up again. He continued this process all day. One day, he felt someone tugging at his jacket. He turned around and saw a little boy who asked, “If you release a black balloon, would that also fly?” Moved by the boy?s concern, the man replied (with empathy) “Son, it is not the color of the balloon, it is what is inside that makes it go up.” The same thing applies to our lives. It is what is inside that really counts. The thing inside of us that makes us go up is our attitude. balloon [---?] n.气球，玩具气球 release [---?] vt.释放 helium [----] n.〔化〕氦 process [----] n.过程 tug [-?] vi.用力拖，使劲拉 concern [----] n.关心 empathy [?emp-i] n.〔美学〕移情作用, (心)神入 apply to 适用 Questions: (1) How did the businessman in the story make his sales up again? (2) Why was the businessman moved by the boy?s concern? (3) What makes the balloon go up? What does the story tell you? 2 There is a story about a man who sold hotdogs by the roadside. He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers. He was hard of hearing, so he never listened to the radio. His eyes were weak, so he never watched television. But enthusiastically, he sold lots of hotdogs. His sales and profit went up. He ordered more meat and got himself a bigger and better stove. As his business was growing, the son, who had recently graduated from college, joined his father. Then something strange happened. The son asked, “Dad, aren?t you aware of the great recession that is ing our way?” The father replied, “No, but tell me about it.” The son said, “The international situation is terrible. The domestic is even worse. We should be prepared for the ing hard time.” The man thought that since his son had been to college, read the papers, and listened to the radio, he ought to know and his advice should not be taken lightly. So the next day, the father cut down his order for the meat and buns, took down the sign and was no longer enthusiastic. Very soon, fewer and fewer people bothered to stop at his hotdog stand. And his sales started ing down rapidly. The father said to his son, “Son, you were right. We are in the middle of a recession. I am glad you warned me ahead of time.” illiterate [----?] adj.文盲的,无知的 enthusiastically [-------?] adv.热情地,热烈地 recession [----] n.(工商业)衰退,后退 domestic [----?] ①adj.家里的,国内的, 国产的 ②n. (美)国货 bun [-?] n.小圆果子面包,小面包 Question: (1)Can you give a little for the passages above? (2)What?s the moral of the story? 3 What is a broad-based education? Some animals in a forest decided to start a school. The students included a bird, a squirrel, a fish, a dog, a rabbit (and a mentally retarded eel). A board was formed and it was decided that flying, tree climbing, swimming, and burrowing would be part of the curriculum in order to give a broad-based education. All animals were required to take all subjects. The bird was excellent at flying and was getting As but when it came to burrowing, it kept breaking its beak and wings and started failing. Pretty soon, it started making Cs in flying and of course in tree climbing it was getting As, but was failing in swimming. The fish was the best swimmer but couldn?t get out of the water and got Fs in everything else. The dog didn?t join the school, stopped paying taxes and fighting with the administration to include barking as part of the curriculum. The rabbit got As in burrowing but tree climbing was a real problem. It kept failing and landing on its head, suffered brain damage, and soon couldn?t even burrow properly and got Cs in that too. The mentally retarded eel, who did everything half as well became the valedictorian of the class. The board was happy because everybody was getting a broad-based education. mentally [----] ad. 精神上, 智力上 retarded [----?] a. 智力迟钝的 curriculum [-----?] n.(学校的全部〕课程 burrow [---] vi. 挖地洞 beak [--] n.鸟嘴, 喙 valedictorian [--------] n. 致辞别辞者,辞别演说者 Questions: (1) Is it necessary for all animals to take all subjects? (2) What does a broad-based education really mean? 4 John, a woodcutter, worked for a pany for five years but never got a raise. The pany hired Bill and within a year he got a raise. This caused resentment in John and he went to his boss to talk about it. The boss said, “You are still cutting the same number of trees you were cutting five years ago. We are a result-oriented pany and would be happy to give you a raise if your productivity goes up.” John went back, started hitting harder and putting in longer hours but he still wasn?t able to cut more trees. He went back to his boss and told his dilemma. The boss told John to go back to Bill, “Maybe there is something Bill knows that you and I don?t.” John asked Bill how he managed to cut more trees. Bill answered, “After every tree I cut, I take a break for two minutes and sharpen my ax. When was the last time you sharpen your ax?” this question hit home like a bullet and john got his answer. My question is: when was the last time you sharpened your ax? Past glory and education don?t do it. We have to continuously sharpen the ax. ax [-?] n.斧子 result-oriented a.计件 productivity [------?] n.消费率；多产 dilemma [----] n.进退两难的场面, 困难的选择 continuously [------?] ad. 不断地,连续地 Questions: (1) Can you think a title for this passage? (2) Why did Bill get a raise within a year while John never got a raise for five years? (3) What does the last sentence “We have to continuously sharpen the ax” mean? 5 An eagle?s egg was placed in the nest of a prairie chicken. The egg hatched and the little eagle grew up thinking it was a prairie chicken. The eagle did what the prairie chickens did. It scratched in the dirt for seeds. It clucked and cackled. It never flew more than a few feet because that was what the prairie chickens did. One day he saw an eagle flying gracefully and majestically in the open sky. He asked the prairie chickens, “What is that beautiful bird?” The chickens replied, “That is an eagle. He is an outstanding bird, but you cannot fly like him because you are just a prairie chicken.” So the eagle never gave it a second thought, believing that to be the truth. He lived the life of and died a prairie chicken, depriving himself of his heritage because of his lack of vision. What a waste! He was born to win, but was conditioned to lose. prairie [---?] n.大草原，牧场 deprive [----] vt.夺去，剥夺；使失去 deprive sb. of 剥夺某人的… heritage [----?] n. 遗产, 继承权, 传统 Questions: (1) How do you understand “He was conditioned to lose”? (2) In the sentence “Most people go to their graves, with the music still in them”, what does “music” mean? (3) Can negative people succeed in life? 6 A biology teacher was teaching his students how a caterpillar turned into a butterfly. He told the students that in the next couple of hours, the butterfly would struggle to e out of the cocoon, but no one should help the butterfly. Then he left. The students were waiting and it happened. The butterfly struggled to get out of the cocoon. And one of the students took pity on it and decided to help the butterfly out of the cocoon against the advice of his teacher. He broke the cocoon to help the butterfly so it didn?t have to struggle any more. But shortly afterwards the butterfly died. When the teacher returned, he was told what happened. He explained to his students that by helping the butterfly, he had actually killed it because it is a law of nature that the struggle to e out of the cocoon actually helps develop and strengthen its wings. The boy had deprived the butterfly of its struggle and the butterfly died. tragedy [----?] n.悲剧；惨事，惨案 triumph [----] n.凯旋；成功 vi.成功 caterpillar [----?] n.毛虫 butterfly [----?] n.蝴蝶 cocoon [---?] n.茧 worthwhile [-----] a.值得花时间的 Questions: 第 12 页 共 12 页。