高一英语晨读短文30篇.doc

【每天5分钟】高一英语晨读材料（短文30篇）（1）How long will it be before you find yourself famous?眼球经济时代，速成“明星”究竟能红多久“IN the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” US artist Andy Warhol made this famous statement in 1968. Back then, the only really famous people were pop stars and actors, political figures and war heroes although things were changing. In just 30 years, his statement seems to have come true.Today there are countless individuals that go in and out of the media spotlight. The most common way that ordinary people today become famous is through reality shows. Both American Idol and Hunan TVs Super Girls have produced quite a few instant stars.The most famous person of this type is Scottish singer Susan Boyle, an out-of-work, plain-looking 48-year-old who came to international attention when she appeared on the reality TV program Britains Got Talent in April 2009.However, Boyles success was largely due to a video posted on YouTube. According to the BBC, the video had been viewed “a whopping (庞大的) 120 million times worldwide” by the end of 2009.Indeed, today many people showcase their own videos on YouTube and other sites. “This model makes it easy for an average Joe (路人) to get noticed,” writes Jonita Davis for the Associated Content.But 15 minutes is a very short time; most of these instant celebrities fade from view. If others show true talent or staying power, they may be awarded extra time to prove themselves worthy of media and public attention.But while Warhol emphasized the short-lived nature of modern fame, he also pointed out that fame is easier to get nowadays. If digital video cameras enable people to become reporters, why shouldnt they also become celebrities? （2）Helping outMORE and more migrant workers (外来务工者) are looking for jobs in cities. This has created a problem: the large number of children that are left behind.This winter break, my friends and I visited such a stay-at-home kid.Huang Taizhong is a Junior 2 student at Chengdu No 7 Middle School. His parents got divorced (离婚的) and both moved away to work in other cities. Huang lives with his old grandparents in an apartment with only old furniture.Huang was shy at first but became talkative when we helped him with his math and English.At the end of our talk, I gave him many books that were too expensive for his family to afford (支付得起). He just smiled and said: “I really appreciate your help. Dont worry, and I will study hard!”His words moved me. I hope that our visit brought him joy and helped him face up to the challenges of his life and studies. Make waves-Jane is not satisfied with Jims work. She complains a lot.-Dont tell Jim about it. Otherwise it would make waves at work.make waves:制造麻烦或纠纷（3）You can have it allHERES $3 million (20 million yuan) in cash. OK, so its Monopoly (大富翁游戏) money. But never mind go on, take it. You can use it to buy Changan Avenue in Beijing, or any other street in any other city on Google Maps.Thats right. The online map is now one big Monopoly game board. The new worldwide (全球的) online Monopoly game, called Monopoly City Streets, started last month. So many people tried to play that the website went down.“We expected an opening rush when we launched (推出) the Monopoly City Streets online game, but the first few hours are beyond even our greatest expectations (预期),” a post on the games website read.Monopoly City Streets allows users to buy up streets in cities around the world, from New York to London to Beijing. Players can also build all kinds of different buildings on their street. They can also create danger on other peoples streets. The idea is to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property (财产) owner.Monopoly first became popular in the hard economic times of the 1930s, and the new game appears in another hard period the present financial crisis (金融危机). As The Christian Science Monitor points out, people like to pretend they can make money in times when they have so little of it in the real world. But youd better hurry if you want to play the game. People are buying up streets fast, and the game will end in January 2010.How to startThe first step is to go to the website ( When you get there, find a street you want to buy on the map. Then click (点击) on it and click “buy” on the deed (契约). Streets that are purple (紫色的) are owned by the bank and can be bought. Streets that are blue are owned by other players and may be for sale. You own streets that are red. When you click “buy” on the deed it will have you set up a Monopoly City Streets account with 3 million Monopoly dollars.（4）Ban these ads? 你赞同影视作品中植入商业广告吗？YESEmbedded (植入的) ads are acceptable.Mao Weiying: I think its reasonable for advertisements to appear in films and TV shows. It is an important way for the makers to earn money, which supports their investment (投资), and thus produces more good work.Shi Xingjian: Adverts that break up a program or film are frustrating for the audience. Embedded advertising is better, since the program is not interrupted. Its more natural.Ye Xueni: We watch teleplays (电视剧) from beginning to end. Embedded advertisements dont affect this, as commercial breaks (广告时间) do. And they do make profits for business. Why not just turn a blind eye to them?NOEmbedded advertisements are annoying (烦人的).Wu Luxue: Even if a film or a TV program is good, an embedded advertisement can spoil it. Even worse, some of the ads are not a natural fit for the show. There is nothing in the world more annoying than ads.Wang Xubo: I dont believe there should be ads in films and TV plays. They are an insult (侮辱) to the art and they kill interest in the program.Han Danyang: We know why businesses pay to embed ads in programs; for the same reason the producers make them in the first place money. Audiences, however, do not watch TV shows and movies for a commercial reason.（5）Head to New York.MANY people think of New York City as an international center for eating. Top chefs (厨师) from around the world set up restaurants there. They hope to find success in a city where people love to eat well and are willing to spend good money to do it.New York is also the perfect city for street food: inexpensive take-away food sold out of carts (手推车) on the streets and sidewalks (人行道) of the city. New York City is home to people from all over the world, who have brought their language, culture, and food with them. A diverse (多种多样的) population means that there will be plenty of food to taste from all over the globe.Street food is attractive (吸引人的) to New Yorkers for many reasons. There are so many different flavors (风味) and styles, all just steps away. The meals are inexpensive. And in a place full of busy, rushing people, it takes only minutes to get a meal.Street food is the talk of the town after the fifth yearly Vendy Award contest, in September. The Vendy Awards give awards for the best street food vendor (商贩), the most popular carts, and the best new vendor of the year. According to celebrity chef Mario Batali, the Vendys are “the Oscars Academy Awards of food for the real New York.” This year, flavorful (美味的) Mexican food of the Country Boys taco truck (专卖墨西哥玉米面卷饼的餐车) won the top award.If youre looking for the best food in New York, step outside the restaurants the perfect meal may be waiting on the street.（6）Heres how Dad and I bonded手机短信让我和爸爸之间的代沟消失了。MY father and I did not talk very often. When he got home from work I was always concentrating (专注于) on my homework. I said “Hi” without looking up at him. Sometimes it was the only communication between us.This winter vacation, I went to Guangzhou to visit my aunt. My father stayed alone at home since he did not have time off. I often thought of him as the night fell. One evening, to find out if he was all right, I sent him a text message.To my surprise, he replied immediately. “Im great. Thanks for your concern. How are you doing, sweetie?” I was astonished (惊讶的) because I didnt know he could send messages that fast and I didnt expect that he would call me “sweetie”.After that, we shared our daily news every day via text messages, over the whole holiday. It made me feel great. It was as my dad said afterwards, “It is really good to know that someone you love does care about you.”Thanks to the vacation, the generation gap (代沟) between us faded away (减退). Its so important that we let our loved ones know how we feel. Chase afterSTILL on their world tour, members of the Taiwan pop trio (三人组) S.H.E. released their new album Shero on March 26. The three girls Selina, Hebe and Ella sing about romance, friendship and work.The title song Shero was written by Maydays lead singer, Ashin. The group claims to hope to inspire (激励) women to chase after their ambitions. The CD also contradicts the rumor that the group will split up.我们常说的“追逐梦想”，就可以用chase after dream来表达。Chase after 是个固定搭配。意为“追逐、追赶” (try very hard to get sth)。例如：Hes been chasing after the world record all season. （7）This is Pato. FROM Ronaldo and Ronaldinho to Kaka and Robinho, Brazil is never short of football stars. If you have ever wondered who could be the next big name, 20-year-old Alexandre Pato is a player to watch. Pato showed his talent in a Champions League (冠军联赛) match against Spanish giants Real Madrid on October 22. His second goal gave AC Milan victory in a 3-2 thriller at the Bernabeu football ground. Before the match, Kaka, who left Milan to join Madrid over the summer, was the center of all the attention. But it was Pato who stole the show.In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Pato explained his thoughts in the instant before he took his decisive (决定性的) kick: “I said to myself: you must hit the net! And I did it. I want to make football history and the two goals against Real Madrid are just the beginning of this story,” he said.Pato started to play indoor football at the age of three. In fact, he had already become part of history at 17 when he scored a goal in the FIFA World Club Cup tournament he was the youngest scorer in the history of FIFA competition.Pato has good control and moves intelligently (聪明地). Most of all, he is quick. Its clear why many people have linked him to a young Ronaldo. Yet Pato says that the praise does not give him pressure. Instead, he welcomes it.“I was happy to listen to people saying I was a great player. It makes me want to do my best.”Now, the question remains: with Ronaldinho, Kaka and Pato, which team will be able to stop Brazil on their road to the next World Cup title?（8）Nudes are making the newsTHIS week, its nudes (裸体) in the news.By the time the Spanish airline Air Comet went bankrupt (破产) last winter, some of its workers hadnt been paid in over nine months. Now former Air Comet flight attendants (乘务员) are demanding (索要) their wages (工资) in a very public way.Nine of the young women took off their clothes recently to pose (摆姿势) nude for a calendar. A spokesperson for the women said that the flight attendants contributed (贡献) to the calendar in order to “continue to publicize their situation and demand a solution”.The flight attendants took off their clothes to make an important statement, but what was Daniel R. Lees excuse?The 22-year-old man was caught by police after running through a supermarket in Tennessee, US, wearing nothing more than a face mask (面具). When questioned, he told the police that he made his naked shopping trip because he was “bored and didnt have anything else to do”.Police officers found the young man in the bathroom of a nearby fast food restaurant. Employees said that he had run into the restaurant and asked if someone could lend him clothes. One kind worker gave him a pair of shorts. （9）I Have a DreamI say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of the day and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal”. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content their character.I have a dream today.词汇注释：1. creed n. 信条2. self-evident adj. 自明的, 不证自明的, 不言而喻的3. Swelter vi. 闷热, 被暑气所苦, 汗流浃背4. injustice in5n. 不公平, 不讲道义5. oppression E5preFEn n. 压迫, 镇压, 压抑, 苦恼6. oasis Eu5eisis n. (沙漠中)绿洲,舒适的地方7. live out 实现，活到（10）Jane Eyre (excerpt)“No. You must stay! I swear it and the oath shall be kept”. “I tell you I must go!” I retorted, roused to something like passion. “Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automation? a machine without feeling? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips，and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!I have as much soul as you, and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities，nor even of mortal fleshit is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equalas we are!” Charlotte Bronte词汇注释：1. oath 5EuW n. 誓言, 宣誓, 诅咒2. retort ri5tC:t v. 反驳, 反击, 回报3. automation C:5tCmEtEn n. 自动机器, 机器人4. morsel 5mC:sEl n. (食物)一口, 少量5. snatch snAtF v. 攫取6. conventionality kEn7venFE5nAliti n. 常规,惯例,老一套7. mortal 5mC:tl n. 凡人, 人类8. flesh fleF n. (供食用的)兽肉, 果肉, 蔬菜的嫩部, 人体 （11）Where There Is Life, There Is Music If you ask me what is the most important thing in my life, I will say music without hesitation. I have liked music from my childhood. My father often says when I was a baby I would never go to sleep with