Ⅰ 求兩篇英語小故事 高中水平的
第一個：
The Old Cat
An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.
Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."
【譯文】
老貓
一位老婦有隻貓，這只貓很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了東西，因為它年紀太大了。一天，老貓發現一隻老鼠，它跳過去抓這只老鼠，然而，它咬不住這只老鼠。因此，老鼠從它的嘴邊溜掉了，因為老貓咬不了它。
於是，老婦很生氣，因為老貓沒有把老鼠咬死。她開始打這只貓，貓說：「不要打你的老僕人，我已經為你服務了很多年，而且還願意為你效勞，但是，我實在太老了，對年紀大的不要這么無情，要記住老年人在年青時所做過的有益的事情。」
第二個：
When the time came for him to die he called them to his bed and said， 「Dear children， I have thought of something that I will reveal to you. The one of you is the laziest shall become king after me.」
The oldest one said， 「Father， then the kingdom belongs to me， for I am so lazy that whenever I lie down to sleep， and a drop falls into my eyes， I will not even close them so that I can fall asleep.」
The second one said， 「Father， the kingdom belongs to me， for I am so lazy that when I am sitting by the fire warming myself， I would rather let my heels burn up than to pull my legs back.」
The third one said， 「Father， the kingdom is mine， for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged and already had the rope around my neck， and someone put into my hand a sharp knife with which to cut the rope， I would let myself be hanged rather than to lift my hand up to the rope.」
When the father heard this he said， 「You have taken it the farthest and shall be king.」
在一個遙遠的地方，有一個國王，他有三個兒子，對每一個兒子他都非常喜愛，他不知道自己死後應該把王位傳給他們三個中的哪一個。所以，當他快要死的時候，就把他們叫到身邊說：「親愛的孩子們，在我死後，你們三個中誰最懶，誰就繼承我的王位。」老大說：「既然這樣，這王位就是我的，因為我是最懶的兒子，當我躺下睡覺時，有任何東西落到我的眼睛裡，我也懶得去擦掉，即使不能把眼睛閉上，我仍然會繼續睡覺。」二兒子說：「爸爸，王位應該傳給我，因為我是最懶的兒子。當我坐在火邊取暖的時候，就是火燃到我的腳趾，我也懶得把腿收回來。」第三個兒子說：「爸爸，這王位是我的，因為我是你最懶的兒子，如果我就要被吊起來，繩子已經套在了脖子上，有人把一把鋒利的小刀塞在我手裡，要我切斷繩子，我寧願被吊起來也懶得抬起手把繩子割斷。」父親聽到這里說道：「你是最合適的人選，你應該繼承王位。」
Ⅱ 適合高一學生閱讀的英文小說
Jane Eyre、The Sorrows of Young Werther、Grimm's Fairy Tales、Peter Pan都還不錯，在愛洋蔥中英雙語平台上有中文、英文的回對照閱讀的小說答，對你學習英語有不錯的幫助。
Ⅲ 求推薦適合高中生閱讀的英語小說
牛津書蟲系列。
「書蟲」是外語教學與研究出版社和牛津大學出版社共同奉獻給廣大英語學習者的一大精品。如今這只「書蟲」漂洋過海，輕盈地落在了中國英語學習者的掌中。「書蟲」首先將給你自信，即使你目前只有幾百的詞彙量，也可以不太費勁地閱覽世界名作了。書蟲還會用它細細的鳴叫聲不停地提醒你：要堅持不懈地讀下去，要廣泛而豐富地讀下去。待到讀完叢書系列中的最後一本，你也許會突然發現：你已經如蛹畫碟，振翅欲翔了！ 「書蟲」系列叢書主要用於英語閱讀的啟蒙和提高。 中英雙語對照閱讀，提高閱讀量，擴增單詞量。建議初學者能熟練的掌握3-5本，通讀100本左右。對英語的提高很有好處。
入門到第二級略
第三級
第三級：1000生詞量，適合初三、高一學生，分上、下兩冊，共19本 上冊（共10本） 1、《弗蘭肯斯坦》 2、《野性的呼喚》 3、《秘密花園》 4、《曾達的囚徒》 5、《愛麗絲鏡中世界奇遇記》 6、《風語河岸柳》 7、《神秘幻想故事集》 8、《鐵路少年》 9、《三個陌生人》 10、《伊桑·佛羅姆》 下冊（共9本） 1、《聖誕歡歌》 2、《多里安·格雷的畫像》 3、《勃朗特一家的故事》 4、《牙齒和爪子》 5、《星際動物園》 6、《誘拐》 7、《公正》 8、《化學秘密》 9、《劫機！》
第四級
第四級：1500生詞量，適合高一、高二學生，分上、下兩冊，共17本 上冊（共9本） 1、《巴斯克維爾獵犬》 2、《不平靜的墳墓》 3、《三怪客泛舟記》 4、《三十九級台階》 5、《小婦人》 6、《克蘭福德》 7、《華盛頓廣場》 8、《織工馬南》 9、《化身博士》 下冊（共8本） 1、《雙城記》 2、《格列佛游記》 3、《金銀島》 4、《黑駿馬》 5、《紅字》 6、《極限之旅》 7、《吉姆老爺》 8、《洛娜·杜恩》
第五級
第五級：2000生詞量，適合高二、高三學生，共6本。 1、《大衛·科波菲爾》 2、《遠離塵囂》 3、《遠大前程》 4、《呼嘯山莊》 5、《園會》 6、《理智與情感》
第六級
第六級：2300生詞量，適合高三、大學低年級學生，共5本 1、《簡·愛》 2、《霧都孤兒》 3、《傲慢與偏見》 4、《苔絲》 5、《白衣女人》
Ⅳ 尋求適合高一學生閱讀的英文小說或文章
我本科大三抄的，高一的襲話，建議你看《Reader's Choice》，裡面有很多國家、種族的文化元素和不少小故事，而且它不是純文字的英語閱讀書本（怕你會悶呢～），每篇文章都有相關的圖片，閱讀此書有種身處異國他鄉的體會：）
Ⅳ 英語長篇閱讀範文
Dear friend,
My name is Sally. I am from China. I want a pen pal in Australia. I am 14 years old. I have no brothers or sisters in my family. MY favorite subject in school is science, because I think it』s very interesting. I like playing the piano and playing basketball on weekends. How about you? Can you write and tell me something about yourself?
Yours,
Sally
Ⅵ 英語難度一般的長篇故事帶翻譯900詞左右
小鴨子得救了
一隻活潑可愛的小鴨子去游泳。可是，到了河邊，他東瞧瞧，西望望，一不小心掉在一個又大又深的坑裡。
他拚命地喊：「救命啊！救命啊......」小猴正好路過，聽到喊聲急忙跑過來說：「小鴨子，別著急,我想辦法救你上來。」他拿來一根長竹竿伸進坑裡，讓小鴨子叼住。可竹竿太滑，小鴨子叼不住。小後邊去叫小熊哥哥。
小熊哥哥趕緊提來一桶水，說「小鴨子，別著急，我把水倒進坑裡，你就浮上來了。」說著，把水往坑裡一倒。可坑裡的圖很鬆散，沒等第二桶水提來，水早滲到地下了，小猴只好找大象伯伯。
大象伯伯跑來說：「不怕，我用鼻子卷你上來！」可是行不通，大象鼻子有點短。
這時，小猴子拍拍腦子說：「我們一倒水，小鴨子就可以浮上來了~」大家一起拿了水，潑向坑裡，最後小鴨子浮了上來，得救了~！
小鴨子感謝了所有人，一起在歡樂的歌聲與陽光下一起做游戲，一起回到了家。
翻譯： Little ck was saved
A lively lovable ck swimming. But, by the river, he looked at east, west, carelessly fall in a big and deep pit.
He desperately to shout: "help! Help!..." Little monkey just passing by, heard shouts hurried said, "little ck, don't worry, I tried to deliver you up." He took a long bamboo pole into a pit, let little ck live in. Bamboo is too slippery, can not ck diao. Little bear brother to call back.
Bear brother hurriedly to a bucket of water and said, "little ck, don't worry, I poured water into a pit, you up." The water into a pit, a fall. But the figure is very loose pit, not to mention if two buckets of water, underground water into the early, little monkey had to find an elephant's uncle.
Elephants are not afraid to say: "uncle, running nose with me you up!" But a short nose, elephant work.
At that time, little monkey brains said: "we clap a water, ck can float ~" together, and took the waters to pit, finally ck bobbed up, saved ~!
Thanks for all the little cks, together with the sunshine joyful songs play games together, to return home.
Ⅶ 英語長篇閱讀理解題
Around the World in 20 Days
Bertrand: In many people』 eyes, a round-the-world balloon flight was the last great challenge in aviation. The winter of 1998-99 was time of high anxiety. Five other teams were preparing to launch in various parts of the world. This would be my third, and last, attempt underwritten by the Breitling watch company. The weather was terrible, and February was drawing to a close. Normally the end of the month marked the end of the season for ballooning attempts. I was in despair. But early on February 24, 1999, the telephone rang. It was Luc Trullemans, one of our meteorologists.
「Bertrand, there』s a really good slot coming on the first of March!」 he exclaimed. Trullemans and fellow meteorologist Pierre Eckert felt sure we could swing the balloon around the edge of a big depression forming over the Mediterranean by flying counterclockwise—going down over France and Spain. Then we would be carried eastward over Africa.
Brian Jones, my British co-pilot, and I knew if the weather turned, we would fail. But if we waited for next year, somebody else might succeed in the interim.
A balloon piloted by British tycoon Richard Branson hand gone down in the Pacific, but one sponsored by Britain』s Cable & Wireless and piloted by Andy Elson and Colin Prescot had already been aloft for seven days. On Sunday, February 28, we struggled to make the crucial decision: carry on or not? Brian and I knew this was our last chance for 1999. Alan Noble, our flight director, and Don Cameron, head of the firm that built the balloon, were far from being positive. 「From the weather maps,」 they said, 「we don』t see how you can get around the world.」
「You get them up there,」 argued Luc, 「and I』ll get them around.」
Following meteorological assurances, Alan said, 「I think we can go.」 We put it to a vote of the whole team, and the show of hands to take off was unanimous. By five the next morning, Brian and I were both wide awake. After years of preparation and dashed hopes, the moment was upon us.
The launch teams had started inflation at 3 a.m. on March 1. The balloon was designed to function with a combination of hot air and helium. During the day the sun heats the helium, causing it to expand and make the balloon climb. At night propane is burned to heat the gas, maintaining the balloon』s lift.
Our meteorologists would work out the trajectories, then we would travel along with the moving weather all the way around the world.
As down broke, the wind began to blow and gust. Since any strong wind might damage the envelope and dash the gondola against the ground, we knew we had to take off soon.
At 8 a.m., Brian and I climbed in and closed the rear hatch. High above us the Mylar envelope was crackling. Hair-raising noises started to emanate from the gondola. Supplies and equipment kept tumbling onto the floor.
Unable to risk disaster any longer, Alan waited for one more big bounce and severed the restraining rope with his Swiss Army knife.
As we rose into the sky, he thousands who had assembled were screaming. Church bells were ringing. A fire engine』s siren was wailing. This enthusiasm seemed to propel us into the sky.
Brian: My first task was to be carried out atop the gondola, so before takeoff I climbed out through the top hatch and sat. a heavy double railing ringed the area, and we took off with such a jerk, I hat to cling tight to it.
Bertrand and I were both amazed by the speed at which we went up. The balloon finally stopped climbing at 1,000 feet when we hit an inversion layer—the level at which cold air close to the ground meets warmer air above. It acts like an invisible barrier.
Bertrand called out, 「One bag of sand!」 I started pouring 33 pounds of ballast down a tube that sent the sand clear of the capsule.
A moment later he shouted, 「Look out, I』m going to burn!」 The propane jets and blue flames roared six feet up, warming the helium. We started to climb again. I scrambled back into the gondola, and we sealed the hatch. We were on our way.
Bertrand: By sunset our first problems set in. the pilot lights on the burners began to act erratically, and every few seconds we had to manually ignite the burners.
More worrisome was the fact that we thought we were using far too much propane to maintain our height. It looked as though our chances of making it were perilously slim. But the first pair of fuel tanks held out until the evening of day two, exceeding our expectations. And that was a huge encouragement.
As we entered Moroccan airspace, I was rewarded by one of the most magnificent sights. I had ever seen: an absolutely incredible view of the Atlas Mountains with a full moon. We had been told how boring it would be to fly over the Sahara, but on the next day the views that unfolded were fabulous. For me, the desert was alive. The light was alive, and the sand was alive, full of different colors, different shapes, like the bottom of the sea. I spent hours staring at the desert, feeling its strangeness.
Brian: Early in the morning of March 4 the plan called for releasing our four empty auxiliary tanks. That meant an EVA—extravehicular activity—to cut them free. We also wanted to get rid of the ice that had formed from riding in the freezing high altitudes. As we descended to 10,000 feet, our adrenaline was flowing.
When we opened the hatch and climbed out, we found icicles that were ten feet long dangling from the envelope』s skirt. While I concentrated on fixing the faulty ignition system, Bertrand went about attacking the icicles with a fire ax. He commented that it was probably the first time that ice had rained on the Sahara in several thousand years.
With Bertrand holding one of my ankles, I reached out and freed one of the empty tanks. We watched it tumbling all the way to the ground. A puff of sand marked where it slammed into the desert. If it buried itself, I thought, it might lie there for a couple of millennia before some archeologist g it up.
By then we had finished our counterclockwise swing and were at last heading east, just as our meteorologists had predicted. The air was warm; the sky cloudless. Below us stretched sand and rock as far as the eye could see.
Bertrand: We were over Yemen and two days from the Indian subcontinent when an astonishing message came in from our ground crew: 「The cable & Wireless control room says their balloon is landing 70 miles off the coast of Japan. The balloon iced up. Search and rescue are with them.」 Now we were the only ones in the race.
I was desperate to pass on the news to Brian, and when he finally stuck his head out of the sleeping bunk hours later, I said, 「I』ve got the most incredible news.」
He instantly said, 「Andy』s down.」
Meanwhile I spoke to Luc, who confirmed that our position was perfect for enter China at the right point. We had guaranteed them we would keep south of 26 degrees latitude. If we found ourselves straying north of the limit, we would come down.
Brian: Heading for Myanmar (formerly Burma), we found we were graally creeping north toward the 26th parallel. This kept us on tenterhooks. But back in Geneva our weathermen were telling us we had to go right up almost to the boundary. Once there, the wind would take us e east.
On the way we had the following exchange with a Myanmar air controller.
Tower: 「What is your departure point and destination?」
Me: 「Departure point, Switzerland. Destination, northern Africa.」
Tower: (after several seconds of silence) 「If you』re going from Switzerland to northern Africa, what in hell are you doing in Myanmar?」
Shortly before down on the morning of March 10 we arrived at the Chinese border. The Chinese had seen us coming and sent the message: 「Your balloon』s heading for the prohibited zone. It must land.」
Bertrand: It was amazing. We skimmed across a 1,300-mile-long corridor straight as an arrow, with the 26th parallel never more than 30 miles away. Our meteorologists had sent us on a swirling trajectory of 8,100 miles, then through the eye of a needle.
By March 11 we were heading out over the Pacific. Faced by 8,000 miles of water, I felt as if I had stepped onto the edge of the abyss.
I picked up my pen and wrote: 「This is exactly my definition of adventure, a point at which you hat to dig inside yourself to find the courage to deal with what may lie ahead.」
On Saturday, March 13, we were still over the Pacific. Our meteorologists said our speed would improve from our miserable 35 knots to 100 knots once we climbed into the jet stream. By Tuesday it would increase to 120.
Our propane reserves seemed perilously small. We had already burned two-thirds of our fuel and yet covered only half our course. everything depended on our weathermen: If they were right, we had a chance. If they were wrong, we were doomed.
Brian: Like Bertrand, I was thoroughly on edge over the Pacific. After seven days above the water, we at last made the coast of Mexico. Later that night, lying there, I found it had to breath. And it was not until I got up that I realized something was seriously wrong. I found Bertrand in the pilot』s seat, slumped against the bulkhead, gasping. He crawled into the bunk wearing an oxygen mask.
Our symptoms were not those of hypoxia, and the instruments monitoring the CO2 levels had not signaled any alarm. But despite this, we felt that we were slowing being asphyxiated. People on the ground started telephoning doctors in a frantic search for clues to what could be wrong with us. I was also wearing my oxygen mask, and after a few minutes of breathing pure oxygen, my head cleared. I thought, I Screw the instruments, and changed both the CO2 and the carbon filters. The symptoms graally began to disappear.
We crossed Mexico in a day and were soon out over the Caribbean. Reporting to air-traffic control in Kingston, Jamaica, I heard a female controller with a delicious voice ask what we were doing.
「We took off from Switzerland,」 I answered. 「We』re hoping to get around the world.」
「You guys sure are taking a chance!」 she said.
She was right. Our fuel was critically short, and nobody was sure if we had enough to get across the Atlantic. Alan Nobel suggested we make our decision over Puerto Rico.
Bertrand: By March 18 it was time to decide. With cameras from all over the world focused on him, Alan got on the phone with us. When we had run through the agreed-upon formalities, Alan said, 「I think you can go for it.」
「Bertrand!」 cried Brian. 「Tell him we』re going.」
「We』re not going to quit,」 I told Alan. 「Even if we ditch in mid-Atlantic, we go for it.」
Our weathermen guided us into the middle of the jet stream, and our speed increased as we shot out over the Atlantic. But cursing at 15,000 feet, the cold was intense and our heaters had failed. The temperature inside was 28.4 F, and our water supply froze.
On March 20 came good news. Our navigation computer told us we had made landfall. We had crossed the Atlantic, and at 6:15 GMT, or Greenwich Mean Time, when the sun came over the horizon, I again saw the desert I had loved so much 20 days earlier. Now the finish line was only 300 miles away, about three hours』 time.
When we crossed the line at 9:54 GMT, Brian and I stood up and embraced, slapping each other on the back and shouting, 「We』ve done it! We』ve done it.」
The next morning, after the longest flight in distance and ration ever made by a free balloon, we landed in the Egyptian desert. Brian sent this fax: 「The Eagle has landed. All okay. Bloody good.」 Our trip round the world, and into history, was done.
1. To Bertrand and Brian, the winter of 1998-99 was a time of high anxiety because ______.
A. they were awaiting their last attempt of the season to launch the balloon.
B. another balloon sponsored by Britain』s Cable & Wireless had been aloft for 7 days
C. a balloon piloted by British tycoon Richard Branson had gone down.
D. the Breitling watch company sponsored their activities.
2. The decision to take off was made unanimously ______.
A. on February 28, 1999
B. at 3 a.m. March 1
C. on February 24, 1999
D. in the winter of 1998-1999
3. When deciding to launch, the meteorologists were confident that the balloon could ______.
A. fly over Moroccan airspace
B. fly counterclockwise to the Atlantic Ocean.
C. float over France and Spain first, then be carried eastward over Africa
D. travel along with the big depression over the Mediterranean
4. When the balloon hit an inversion layer at 1,000 feet, the pilots made it rise by ______.
A. pouring one bag of sand into the capsule
B. sending the ballast into the sky
C. dropping 33 pounds of sand and heating the helium
D. clearing the capsule of 33 pounds of sand and burning the helium
5. By the evening of the first day, it looked as though it wouldn』t be quite possible for them to complete the journey around the world because ________.
A. they were worried that the fuel they carried might not last long
B. they were using too much fuel to maintain their height
C. the balloon hit an inversion layer at 1,000 feet
D. pilot lights on he burner began to act abnormally
6. After hearing about the balloon』s departure point and destination, the Myanmar air controller said to them, 「What in hell are you doing in Myanmar?」 This showed that he was ______.
A. angry
B. surprised
C. mistaken
D. ignorant
7. If the balloon moved north of the 26th parallel, Bertrand and Brian would be quite worried because they might ______.
A. be shot down by the enemy
B. lose their way in China
C. be forced to land
D. be carried e east by a gust of wind
8. When the balloon flew over the Pacific, Bertrand felt ______.
A. it would be a long and challenging journey
B. the balloon was flying slowly
C. something might go seriously wrong
D. they would use up their propane reserve
9. Brian solved their breathing problem by ______.
A. telephone doctors on the ground for clues
B. tightening the instruments and changing the filters
C. breathing in pure oxygen for a few minutes
D. looking at the instruments and changing the air
10. The balloon flew across the Atlantic by ______.
A. burning more propane
B. flying in jet stream at 15,000 feet
C. monitoring the weather closely
D. recing the temperature to 28.4 F
Ⅷ 誰有高考英語閱讀理解長篇的題目，越多越好
Passage 1
Up，Up，and Away！
Anadventurer who became the first person to fly across the English Channel on aclusterof balloons has launched a house into the sky just like inthe hit movie Up-in reparation for a more ambitious journey and a new record．
FearlessTrappe，from North Carolina，stepped into the cartoon themed home before flying above the LeonInternational Balloon Festival in Mexico more than a week ago．
The38-year-old Trappe was using the event as a warm-up for his plannedtrans-Atlantic flight scheled for next summer．He aims to complete the 2，500-mile journey in a seven-foot lifeboat carried by 365 huge heliumballoons．
Thebrave man is learning to sail a lifeboat，in case he needs to ditch intothe ocean ring the danger-filled adventure．
Hesill fly at between 18，000 feet and 25，000 feet，beating his previous world altituderecord of 21，600 feet，and must fly uninterrupted a distance ten times longer than his previousworld record of 230 miles in order to succeed．
Theadventurer Trappe，who holds records forcrossing the Alps，flying the most clusterballoons，and the longest distance，has spent his entire career，building up to thisambitious plan．
「Ididn』t wake up one day and think：『I』 going to fly acrossthe Atlantic，』」he said．「Every attempt before this was prepared for this fight，I』ve been training for a long time」．
1．The adventurer flew acrossthe English Channel to__________．
A．test the balloons B．launch a house
C．shoot a hit movie D．prepare for breaking a record
2．To finish the journey，he will fly a distance of__________．
A．2500 miles B．18，000 feet C．25，000 feet D．230 miles
3．About the ambitiousjourney，which is NOT mentioned in thepassage?
A．When he will fly B．How high he sill fly
C．How far he will fly D．How long it will take him
4．How many world recordsdoes Jonathan hold?
A．Two B．Three C．Four D．Five
5．What does he lastparagraph imply?
A．Trappe can』t sleepworrying about the adventure
B．Trappe was born to set world records
C．Trappe always keeps his ambition in mind
D．Trappe never thought of crossing the Atlanticbefore
Passage 2
Everyday we go to school and listen to the teacher，and the teacher will askus some questions．Sometimes，the classmates will ask your opinions of the work of the class．When you are telling others in the class what you have found out aboutthese topics，remember that they must be able tohear what you are saying．You are not taking part ina family conversation or having a chat with friends---you are in a slightlyunnatural situation where a large group of people will remain silent，waiting to hear what you have to say．You must speak so thatthey can hear you---loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying toshout or appearing to force yourself．
Remember，too，that it is the same if you are calledto an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a governmentofficial who might meet you．The person you are seeingwill try to put you at your ease but the situation is somewhat different fromthat of a ordinary conversation．You must take special carethat you can be heard．
1．When you speak to theclass，you should speak ______．
A．as slowly as possible B．in a low voice C．loudly D．forcefully
2．Usually，when you speak to the class，the class is _______．
A．noisy B．quiet C．having a rest D．serious
3 The situation in the class is ______ that in yourhouse．
A．not very different from B．sometimes the same as
C．sometimes not the same as D．not the same as
4．If you are having aconversation with an official，the most important thingfor you is ______．
A．to show your ability B．to be very gentle
C．to make sure that you can be heard D．to put the official at ease
5．The main idea of thispassage is ______．
A．that we should talk indifferent ways in different situations
B．that we must speak loudly
C．that we must keep silent at any time
D．that we must talk with the class
Passage 3
About21，000 young people in 17 Americanstates do not attend classes in school buildings．
Instead，they receive their elementary and high school ecation by working athome on computers．The Center for EcationReform says the United States has 67 public 「cyberschools．」 and that is about twice as many as two years ago．
The money for students to attend a cyberschoolcomes from the governments of the states where they live．Some ecators say cyberschools receive money that should supporttraditional public schools．They also say it isdifficult to know if students are learning well．
Other ecators praise this new form of ecation for letting studentswork at their own speed．These people saycyberschools help students who were unhappy or unsuccessful in traditionalschools．They say learning at home by computerends long bus rides for children who live far from school．
Whatever the judgement of cyberschools，they are getting more andmore popular．For example，a new cyberschool called Commonwealth Connections Academy will take instudents this fall．It will serve children inthe state of Pennsylvania from ages five through thirteen．
Children get free equipment for their online ecation．This includes a computer，a printer，books and technical services．Parents and students talkwith teachers by telephone or by sending emails through their computers whennecessary．
Students at cyberschools usually do not know one another．But 56 such students who finished studies at Western Pennsylvania CyberCharter School recently met for the first time．They were guests of honorat their graation．
1．What do we know from thetext about students of a cyberschool？
A．They have to take long bus rides toschool．
B．They study at home rather than inclassrooms．
C．They receive money from traditionalpublic schools．
D．They do well in traditional schoolprograms．
2．What is a problem withcyberschools？
A．Their equipment costs a lot of money．
B．They get little support from thestate government．
C．It is hard to know students' progressin learning．
D．The students find it hard to makefriends．
3．Cyberschools are gettingpopular became _______．
A．they are less expensivefor students
B．their students can work at their own speed
C．their graates are moresuccessful in society
D．they serve students in a wider age range
4．We can infer that theauthor of the text is _______．
A．unprejudiced in hisdescription of cyberschools
B．excited about the future ofcyberschools
C．doubtful about the qualityof cyberschoois
D．disappointed at the development ofcyberschools
Ⅸ 求長篇英語故事(特別有趣）
Where
is
the
father?
Two
brothers
were
looking
at
some
beautiful
paintings.
"Look,"
said
the
elder
brother.
"How
nice
these
paintings
are!"
"Yes,"
said
the
younger,
"but
in
all
these
paintings
there
is
only
the
mother
and
the
children.
Where
is
the
father?"
The
elder
brother
thought
for
a
moment
and
then
explained,
"Obviously
he
was
painting
the
pictures."
父親在哪兒？
兄弟倆在看一些漂亮的油畫。
「看，」哥哥說，「這些畫多漂亮呀！」
「是啊，」弟弟說道，「可是在所有這些畫中，只有媽媽和孩子。那爸爸去哪兒了呢？」
哥哥想了會兒，然後解釋道：「很明顯，他當時正在畫這些畫唄。」
Ⅹ 英語勵志經典故事長篇
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