英语阅读佳作

英语朗诵阅读佳作 An Hour Before Sunrise An hour before sunrise in the city there is an air of cold Solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy eager crowd and over the quiet closely shut buildings which throughout the day are warming with life The drunken the dissipated and the criminal have disappeared the more sober and orderly part of the population have not yet awakened to the labors of the day and the stillness of death is over streets its very hue seems to be imparted to them cold and lifeless as they look in the gray somber light of daybreak A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat of the weather and the uneasy slumbers of its occupant and the dim scanty flicker of a light through the blinds of yonder windows denotes the chamber of watching and sickness Save for that sad light the streets present no signs of life nor the houses of habitation An Important Aspect of College Life It is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is how vital how important how closely associated with all modern achievement only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself Lectures often seem very formal and empty things recitations generally proved very dull and unrewarding It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is how it ties into everything that is interesting and important how intimate a part it is of every thing that is interesting and important how intimate a part it is of everything that is practical and connected with the world Men are not always made thoughtful by books but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think The Value of Time 1 Time says the proverb is money This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets If our time is usefully employed it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes There can thus be no doubt that time is convertible into money Let those who think nothing of wasting time remember this let them remember that an hour misspent is equivalent to the loss of a bank note an that an hour utilized is tantamount to so much silver or gold and then they will probably think twice before they give their consent to the loss of any part of their time Moreover our life is nothing more than our time To kill time is therefore a form of suicide We are shocked when we think of death and we spare no pains no trouble and no expense to preserve life But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live A day of an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited Let us bear this in mind and waste of time will appear to us in the light of a crime as culpable as suicide itself Education a Means to an End 1 Education is not an end but a means to an end In other words we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them our purpose is to fit them for life As soon as we realize this fact we will understand that it is very important to choose a good way education which will really prepare children for life In many modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor clever or stupid one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation But we can already see that free education for all is not enough we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill Because of their degree they refused to do what they think low work and in fact work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries 165 words Science a Way of Thinking Many scientists from their earlier work have enough knowledge to make good guesses as to the solution of a problem they are working on In making new discoveries they may use the trial and error method they may draw on past experiences or they may try to find out that others have discovered They may design new investigations and new ways of testing their results Scientists have to train themselves to use their brains efficiently that is they train themselves to think For example when Thomas A Edison was trying to make an electric lamp he needed a substance for the filament inside the bulb that would glow brightly without burning up quickly He tried more than thousand different filaments before he found one that he could use After each trial he thought about how the new substance had acted He kept notes and compared results After he had experimented for a long time someone asked Mr Edison if he were not discouraged at the waste of time He replied I have not been wasting time I have found one thousand materials that won t work Now I can look for others Edison s statement is all important Above all scientists demand to know when and where they are wrong A good question to ask in science is not Am I right but Am I wrong Scientists spend many years of study training themselves in using their brains and the tools of investigation They also use each other s work Issac Newton a British scientist who lived over 300 years ago said he saw further than others because he stood on the shoulders of giants 269 words Don t Give Up If we should ever accomplish anything in life let us not forget that we must persevere If we would learn our lessons in school we must be diligent and not give up whenever we come to anything difficult We shall find many of our lessons very hard but let us consider that the harder they are the better they will do us if we will persevere and learn them thoroughly But there are some among us who are ready to give up when they come to a hard example in mathematics and say I can t do this They never will if they feel so I can t never did anything worthwhile but I ll try accomplish wonders Let us remember that we shall meet with difficulties al through life They are in the pathway of everyone If we will only try and keep trying we shall be sure to conquer and overcome every difficulty we meet with If we have a hard lesson today let us strive to learn it well and then we shall be prepared for a harder one tomorrow And if we learn to master hard lessons in school it will prepare us to overcome the hard things that we shall meet in life when our school days are over 212 words The Declaration of Independence 1 We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among Men depriving their just powers from the consent of the governed That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism it is their right it is their duty to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future security 201 words There passion Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind These passions like great winds have blown me hither and thither in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish reaching to the very verge of despair I have sought love first because it brings ecstasy ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy I have sought it nest because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss I have sought it finally because in the union of love I have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined This is what I sought and though it might seem too good for human life this what at last I have found I Have a Dream I have a dream that one day the state of Al