高中英语美文阅读欣赏

2017-01-12

高中英语美文阅读：植物

Plants are very important living things.

植物是非常重要的生物。

Life could not go on if there were no plants.

如果没有植物,生命也就无法维持下去了。

This is because plants can make food from air, waterand sunlight.

因为植物可以利用空气水和阳光制造养料，

Animals and man cannot make food from air,waterand sunlight.

而动物和人却不能利用空气,水和阳光制造食物。

Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals.

动物的食物来源于植物和其他动物。

Man gets his food by eating plants and animals,too.

人也是以植物和动物为食的。

Therefore,animals and man need plants in order to live.

因此，动物和人需要植物来维持生命。

If you look carefully at the plants around you,

如果仔细观察周围的植物，

you will find that there are many types of plants.

你就会发现它们种类繁多，

Some plants are large while others are small. Most plants are green.

有大有小，多数是绿色的。

Plants,like all living things, need air,water and sunlight.

植物，像所有的生物一样，需要空气，水和阳光

Plants do not grow well when they are close together.

当它们聚集在一起的时候，就长不好。

They need room to spread their roots to get water

植物需要空间，使根能够伸展出摄取水分

and to spread their leaves to get sunlight.

使之也能够伸展开吸收阳光。

But air,water and sunlight are not enough.

但是只有空气，水和阳光还不够。

Plants need also a certain amount of warmth.

植物还需要一定的温度。

Plants will grow almost anywhere

植物几乎可以在任何地方生长，

there is plenty of air,water, sunlight and warmth.

只要有充足的空气，水，阳光和温度。

高中英语美文阅读：城市的黎明

It is alway a wonder-ful time to gaze at the beauty ofnature in the morning.

清晨,凝视着大自然的美景,总是美妙的。

It makes our minds become so peaceful and calm

这样会让我们的心变得宁静安然，

that all our worries and sorrows leave us at once.

忧虑和愁苦就会立刻远离我们。

But as residents of the city,

但是作为城市的居民，

we can hardly enjoy nature's morning beauty,

我们很难欣赏大自然的清晨美景，

despite the fact that we rise at dawn.

尽管我们黎明即起。

The morning peaceful atmosphere is in- variably spoiled by the usual city life.

清晨的宁静气氛总是会被惯常的城市生活破坏。

Even before daybreak

甚至在天还未破晓时，

the trams and buses have already begun to disturb the silence.

电车和公共汽车早已打破了寂静。

And the sounds made by the brooms of the street-sweepers are the typical noises

清洁工的扫帚声是典型的噪声，

that jar your ears in the early morning in the streets of a city.

在清晨的城市的街道，它刺激着你的耳朵。

Soon,school children and office workers begin to set off to their destinations.

不久,学生和办公室职员开始动身到他们的目的地去。

The streets are jammed by pubic vehicles and motorcars.

街上堵塞着公交车和小汽车，

The roads are all crowded with people of all ranks.

路上挤满了人。

Buses are packed with passengers who are squashed so tightly together

公共汽车里挤满了乘客他们挤得紧紧的，

that they seem to be tinned sardines.

看起来像是装在罐头里的沙丁鱼。

At this hour,the city everywhere is filled with all sorts of noises,

此刻,城市到处都混杂着各种嘈杂声，

adding to the rumbling of trams

再加上电车的隆隆声，

and the honks of the big and small motorcars,commercial vehicles,etc.

大小汽车,货车等等的喇叭声。

It seems the city in the morning

似乎早晨的城市

is like an exodus of all the citizens from their homes.

就像是所有市民从他们家成群结队地走出来。