精彩英语美文朗诵.doc

Hawaii
For many years, Hawaii has been a magic name to people who like to travel. The beaches there are the best in the world /and the waves are the highest. And the weather is neither too hot nor too cold all the year around. The water is very clear, too. It’s too wonderful for people to do water sports there, just like surfing, diving, water-skiing or swimming. Especially surfing there is so exciting that many surfers and travelers from all over the world are attracted every year.
People on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, in Japan and in America, dream of seeing these beautiful islands in the middle of ocean. They also want to see sunset over the ocean. In the tropical lands, the sun drops like a ball of golden fire into the sea, and it drop so quickly that you can almost see it move. People often have a quiet, peaceful time here, perfect for a leisurely walk along the water.
The first people came to Hawaii nearly two thousand years ago, but skyscraper hotels were only built in the last 25 years. Now yet airplanes make it possible to fly to Hawaii for a weekend from Tokyo or San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Wherever people come from, they really want to see the original beauty of Hawaii.
A Brave Mother
Liza, a middle-aged woman, went to prepare lunch, leaving Barney, her 3-year-old-son, playing by himself in the backyard.
All of a sudden, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Liza rushed into the backyard and found a big snake entwining the little child with its body and trying to swallow the boy. Liza was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was mother’s love that made Liza forget what she faced. She took up an old hatchet from the ground and struck the snake with all her strength.
One two with the hatchet, Liza hit the snake again and again, but she felt as if she was striking a mass of solid rubber. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Liza’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Liza put aside the hatchet and threw herself to the snake, opened her mouth and bit into the snake’s back as if tearing a tough steak. Liza was really mad.
By and by a small piece of flesh was bit off. Liza picked up the hatchet again and hit at the wound in the snake’s back madly and savagely.
Stinking blood was spraying out of the snake’s body. The snake was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never imagined how human beings had such sharp teeth. On half way home, the snake lay, dead
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A Child Ready To Be Born
Once upon a time, there was a child ready to be born. One day the
child asked God, "They tell me you are going to send me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"
     "Among the many angles , I have chosen one for you . She will be waiting for you and will take care of you." God replied.
     "But here in Heaven, I do nothing else but singing and smiling! That's enough for me to be happy."
     God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day. And you will feel your angel's love and be happy.”
      "And", said the child, "how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me , if I don't know the language that men talk?"
     "That's easy, " God told the child, "Your angle will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you have never heard, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."
     The child looked up at God and said, "And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"
     God smiled at the child and said, "your angel will place your hands together and teach you how to pray."
     The child said, "I've heard that on earth there are bad men, Who will protect me?"
God put his arm around the child,saying, "Your angel will defend you - even if it means risking life!"
     At that moment there was much peace in Heaven , but voices from earth could already be heard. The child, in a hurry, asked softly, "Oh God, I am about to leave now please tell me my angle's name!"
   "It is not hard to remember, " God replied, "You will call your angel MOMMY!"
 I have a dream
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today 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, live out the true meaning of 11)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, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners, will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream, that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state 12)sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an 13)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 of their character, I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of 14)interposition and 15)nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain; and the 16)crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all 17)flesh shall see it together. This is our hope.
Today I begin a new life.
　　And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
　　As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity of each scroll nor the simplicity of its words to cause me to treat the scroll's message lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar with wine, and the grapeskin and pulp are tossed to the birds. So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered and tossed to the wind.Only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to come. I will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. And the seed of success I will swallow.
　　Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not , for today I am a new man, with a new life.
　　今天，我开始新的生活
　　我郑重地发誓，绝不让任何事情妨碍我新生命的成长。在阅读这些读物的时候，我绝不浪费一天的时间，因为时光一去不返，失去的日子是无法弥补的。我也绝不打破每天阅读的习惯。事实上，每天在这些新习惯上花费少许时间，相对于可能获得的愉乐与成功而言，只是微不足道的代价。
　　当我阅读书卷中的字句时，绝不能因为文字的精炼而忽视内容的深沉。一瓶葡萄美酒需要千百颗果子酿制而成，果皮和渣子抛给小鸟。葡萄的智慧代代相传，有些被过滤，有些被淘汰，随风飘逝。只有纯正的真理才是永恒的。它们就精炼在我要阅读的文字中。我要依照指示，绝不浪费，饮下成功的种子。
　　今天，我的老茧化为尘埃。我在人群中昂首阔步，不会有人认出我来，因为我不再是过去的自己、我已拥有新的生命。

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