英语名篇佳作篇背诵标准手册中英文对照版.docx

英语名篇佳作100篇背诵手册Content1 If I Were a Boy Again42 Ways of Communication53 The Fight against Youth Smoking64 The Value of Time75 Touchy Topics76 What Money Is For?87 I Dread the End of the Year98 Education — a Means to an End109 Air Jordan1010 On My Mother's Birthday1111 The Polar Bears1112 Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears1213 Science — a Way of Thinking1314 Are These the Best Years of Your Life?1415 Abraham Lincoln1516 Autumn —the Harvest Season1517 All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy1618 Sleep and Your Life1619 Accurate or Polite?1720 Sweet and Low1821 The Media1822 What Is the Best Time to Exercise for Energy?1923 Advertising2024 How to Behave in an Interview2025 Television2126 The Importance of English2227 Don't Give Up2328 Football2329 How to Solve Personal Problems2430 Song2531 Colour and Life2532 The Personal Qualities of a Teacher2633 Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan2734 Crowded Earth—Billions More Coming2835 Grandma's Childhood2836 Something Better than Money2937 Companionship of Books3038 Inaugural Speech by HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa(I)3139 Inaugural Speech by HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa{2}3240 The Fountain3341 Active Play or Passive Entertainment?3342 Collecting—a Serious Hobby3443 On Idleness3544 Time Spent in a Bookshop3645 Only a Madman Would Live in a City3746 Living a Long Life3847 Bill Gates' Tips on the Makings of a Good Manager ( I )3948 Bill Gates' Tips on the Makings of a Good Manager (2)4049 Gettysburg Address4150 Candle in the Wind4151 Youth4252 Pain and Growth4353 Four Freedoms4454 Knowing the Consequences of Choice(I)4555 Knowing the Consequences of Choice(2)4656 Secrets of Straight-A Students(I)4757 Secrets of Straight-A Students (II)4758 Bill Clinton's Remark at Beijing University(I)4859 Bill Clinton's Remark at Beijing University(II)4960 A Red, Red Rose5161 How to Avoid Foolish Opinions5162 Cloning5263 The Delights of Books5364 Exercises and Energy5365 Friendship5466 First Snow5567 The Generation Gap5568 Greening Our Future (I)5669 Greening Our Future (II)5770 When We Two Parted5871 The Nature of Happiness5972 Kindness to Animals5973 Reading for Pleasure6074 Freedom6175 Spell of the Rising Moon6276 Winners6377 Losers6478 Peace in the Atomic Age6579 Three Days to See6680 The Daffodils6781 The Aim of a University Education(I)6882 The Aim of a University Education(II)6883 Work Done for Humanity6984 Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death7085 The Declaration of Independence7186 The Glamor of Hollywood7187 Every Living Person Has Problems7288 Crime7389 Spring, the Resurrection Time7490 Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening7591 Glories of the Storm(I)7692 Glories of the Storm (II)7693 The Ugly Americans7794 Cambridge—the University Town7895 Civilization and History7996 The United Nations8097 The Enchantment of Creeks8198 I Have a Dream(I)8299 I Have a Dream(II)83100 She Walks in Beauty84 1 If I Were a Boy AgainIf I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. "There are only two creatures," says a proverb, "who can surmount the pyramids—the eagle and the snail."If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; 1 would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once. The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown-up people say, "I could not fix my attention on the lecture or book, although I wished to do so," and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return.Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it. "Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut from love."If I were a boy again, 1 would school myself to say 'No' oftener. 1 might write pages on the importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect, and decline doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.If I were a boy again, I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends, and indeed toward。