经典英语美文欣赏80篇（适用于成人）英语美文欣赏80篇 01-The Love of Beauty英语美文欣赏80篇 02-The Happy Door英语美文欣赏80篇 03-Born to Win英语美文欣赏80篇 04-Work and Pleasure英语美文欣赏80篇 05-Mirror,Mirror-What do I See英语美文欣赏80篇 06-On Motes and Beams英语美文欣赏80篇 07-An October Sunrise英语美文欣赏80篇 08-To be or not to be英语美文欣赏80篇 09-Gettysburg address英语美文欣赏80篇10-First Inaugural Address英语美文欣赏80篇11-American black bears英语美文欣赏80篇 12-Coal-fired power plants英语美文欣赏80篇 13-Statistics英语美文欣赏80篇 14-Obtaining Fresh water from icebergs英语美文欣赏80篇 15-The source of Energy英语美文欣赏80篇 16-Vision英语美文欣赏80篇 17-Folk Cultures英语美文欣赏80篇 18-Bacteria英语美文欣赏80篇 19-Sleep英语美文欣赏80篇 20-Cells and Temperature英语美文欣赏80篇21-Youth英语美文欣赏80篇 22-Three Days to See英语美文欣赏80篇 23-Companionship of Books英语美文欣赏80篇24-If I Rest,I Rust英语美文欣赏80篇 25-Ambition英语美文欣赏80篇 26-What I have Lived for英语美文欣赏80篇 27-When Love Beckons You英语美文欣赏80篇 28-The Road to Success英语美文欣赏80篇 29-On Meeting the Celebrated英语美文欣赏80篇 30-The 50-Percent Theory of Life英语美文欣赏80篇 31-Archaeology英语美文欣赏80篇 32-Museums英语美文欣赏80篇 33-Skyscrapers and Environment英语美文欣赏80篇 34-Rare Fossil Record英语美文欣赏80篇 35-The Nobel Academy英语美文欣赏80篇 36-the war between Britain and France 英语美文欣赏80篇 37-Evolution of sleep英语美文欣赏80篇 38-Modern American Universities英语美文欣赏80篇 39-children’s numerical skills英语美文欣赏80篇40-The Historical Significance of American Revolution英语美文欣赏80篇41-What is Your Recovery Rate英语美文欣赏80篇42-Clear Your Mental Space英语美文欣赏80篇43-Be Happy英语美文欣赏80篇44-The Goodness of Life英语美文欣赏80篇45-Facing the Enemies Within英语美文欣赏80篇46-Abundance is a Life Style英语美文欣赏80篇47-Human Life a Poem英语美文欣赏80篇48-Solitude英语美文欣赏80篇49-Giving Life Meaning英语美文欣赏80篇50-Relish the Moment英语美文欣赏80篇51-The Language of Music英语美文欣赏80篇52-Schooling and Education英语美文欣赏80篇53-The Definition of “Price”英语美文欣赏80篇54-Electricity英语美文欣赏80篇55-The Beginning of Drama英语美文欣赏80篇56-Television英语美文欣赏80篇57-Andrew Carnegie英语美文欣赏80篇58-American Revolution英语美文欣赏80篇59-Suburbanization英语美文欣赏80篇60-Types of Speech英语美文欣赏80篇61-The Origin of Sports英语美文欣赏80篇62-Collectibles英语美文欣赏80篇63-Ford英语美文欣赏80篇64-Piano英语美文欣赏80篇65-Movie Music英语美文欣赏80篇66-International Business and Cross-cultural英语美文欣赏80篇67-Scientific Theories英语美文欣赏80篇68-Changing Roles of Public Education 英语美文欣赏80篇69-Telecommuting英语美文欣赏80篇70-The origin of Refrigerators英语美文欣赏80篇71-British Columbia28.Changing Roles of Public Education英语美文欣赏80篇72-Botany英语美文欣赏80篇73-Plankton英语美文欣赏80篇74-Raising Oysters英语美文欣赏80篇75-Oil Refining英语美文欣赏80篇76-Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading英语美文欣赏80篇77-Icebergs英语美文欣赏80篇78-Topaz英语美文欣赏80篇79-The Salinity of Ocean Waters英语美文欣赏80篇80-Cohesion-tension Theory英语美文欣赏80篇01-The Love of BeautyThe love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained.Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun—all overflow with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of peopleliving in the midst of it and yet remaining almostblind to it.All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature. There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration. The power to appreciate beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness - it enlarges our moral nature, too. Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels our cares. Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish. Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears andpetty jealousies will pass away. The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.英语美文欣赏80篇02-The Happy DoorHappiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty.There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since wefind beggars, invalids and so-called failures, who are extremely happy.Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend. But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character. It is not selfish to strive for it. It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.Being unhappy is like an infectious disease. It causes people to shrink away from the sufferer. He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered. There is, however, a cure so simple as to seem, at first glance, ridiculous; if you don’t feel happy, pretend to be!It works. Before long you will find that insteadof repelling people, you attract them. You discoverhow deeply rewarding it is to be the center of widerand wider circles of good will.Then the make-believe becomes a reality. You possessthe secret of peace of mind, and can forget yourself in being of service to others.Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit, opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with grateful friends.英语美文欣赏80篇03-Born to WinEach human being is born as something new, somethingthat never existed before. Each is born with thecapacity to win at life. Each person has a unique wayof seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials---capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being---a productive person, a winner.The word “winner” and “loser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.Winners do not dedicated their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence and manipulating others. They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, betweenbeing knowledgeable and acting knowledgeable. Winners do not need to hide behind a mask.Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge. They can separate facts from opinions and don’t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others, evaluate what they say, but cometo their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them. Winners do not play “helpless”, nor do they play the blaming game. Instead, they assume responsibility for their own lives. They don’t give others a false authority over them. Winners are their own bosses and know it.A winner’s timing is right. Winners respond appropriately to the situation. Their responses are related to the message sent and preserve the significance, worth, well-being, and dignity of the people involved. Winners know that for everything there is a season and for every activity a time.Although winners can freely enjoy themselves, they can also postpone enjoyment, can discipline themselves in the present to enhance their enjoyment in the future. Winners are not afraid to go after what he wants, but they do so in proper ways. Winners do not get theirsecurity by controlling others. They do not set themselves up to lose.A winner cares about the world and its peoples. A winner is not isolated from the general problems of society, but is concerned, compassionate, and committed to improving the quality of life. Even in the face of national and international adversity, a winner’s self-image is not one of a powerless individual. A winner works to make the world a better place.英语美文欣赏80篇04-Work and PleasureTo be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort.A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit orrelief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: those whoare toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worryabout trifling things at the weekend.It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure;and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only themeans of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favored children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the meansof banishing it at intervals from their minds.英语美文欣赏80篇05-Mirror,Mirror-What do I SeeA loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.Mirrors have a very particular function. They reflect the image in front of them. Just as a physical mirrorserves as the vehicle to reflection, so do all of the people in our lives.When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden, that garden serves as a reflection. In order to see the beauty in front of us, we must be able to see thebeauty inside of ourselves. When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves. When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves. We have often heard things like “I love how I am when I’m with that person.” That simply translates into “I’m able tolove me when I love that other person.” Oftentimes, when we meet someone new, we feel as though we “click”. Sometimes it’s as if we’ve known eachother for a long time. That feeling can come from sharing similarities.Just as the “mirror” or other person can be apositive reflection, it is more likely that we’llnotice it when it has a negative connotation. For example, it’s easy to remember times when we have metsomeone we’re not particularly crazy about. We mayhave some criticism in our mind about the person. Thisis especially true when we get to know someone with whom we would rather spend less time.Frequently, when we dislike qualities in other people, ironically, it’s usually the mirror that’s speakingto us.I began questioning myself further each time I encountered someone that I didn’t particularly like. Each time, I asked myself, “What is it about that person that I don’t like?” and then “Is there something similar in me?” in every instance, I could see a piece of that quality in me, and sometimes I hadto really get very introspective. So what did that mean? It means that just as I can get annoyed or disturbed when I notice that aspect in someone else, I better reexamine my qualities and consider making some changes. Even if I’m not willing to make a drastic change, atleast I consider how I might modify some of the things that I’m doing.At times we meet someone new and feel distant, disconnected, or disgusted. Although we don’t want to believe it, and it’s not easy or desirable to look further, it can be a great learning lesson to figure out what part of the person is being reflected in you. It’s simply just another way to create more self-awareness.英语美文欣赏80篇06-On Motes and BeamsIt is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manageto excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find it easy to condone them. For all I know weare right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together.But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left our everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness,of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind,the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our felllows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.英语美文欣赏80篇07-An October SunriseI was up the next morning be fore the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The risingof the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised hisshoulder heavily over the edge of grey mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped, and crept to crept to the hollow places; then stole away in line and column, holding skirts, and clinging subtly at the sheltering corners where rockhung over grassland, while the brave lines of thehills came forth, one beyond other gliding.The woods arose in folds, like draperyof awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe,and memory of the tempests. Autumn’s mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was lessto a bridegroom than a father.Yet before the floating impress of the woods couldclear it self, suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting amber, blue, and purple, anda tint of rich red rose; according to the scene theylit on, and the curtain flung around; yet allalike dispelling fear and the cloven hoof of darkness, all on the wings of hope advancing, and proclaiming, “God is here!” then life and joysprang reassured from every crouching hollow; every flower, and bud and bird had a fluttering sense of them;and all the flashing of God’s gaze merged into soft beneficence.So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great unvintaged ocean; but all things shall arise, and shine in the light of the Father’s countenance, because itself is risen.英语美文欣赏80篇08-To be or not to beOutside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himselfoccasionally. He answered it by saying: "I think, therefore am."But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: "To be is to be in relations." If this true, then the more relations aliving thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the rangeand intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. Butapart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as otherthings are concerned--poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are dead.Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a new accomplishment--you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remainunhappy; the real pessimist is the person who haslost interest.Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China~ if you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.To be or not to be--to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let live!英语美文欣赏80篇09 Gettysburg addressFourscore and seven years ago, our fathersbrought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, wecannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. Thebrave men, living and dead, who struggled here,have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.英语美文欣赏80篇10-First Inaugural AddressFirst Inaugural AddressWe observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end, as wellas a beginning; signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.in your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine,will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.Now the trumpet summons us again, not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burdenof a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation”, astruggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility. I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.Finally, whether you are citizens of America orcitizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, withhistory the final judge of our deeds, let usgo forth to lead the land we love, askingHis blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own.英语美文欣赏80篇11-American black bearsAmerican black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these brown, red, or even yellow coats. To the north, the black bear is actually gray or white in color. Even in the same litter, both brown and black furred bears may be born.Black bears are the smallest of all American bears, ranging in length from five to six feet, weighing from three hundred to five hundred pounds Their eyes andears are small and their eyesight and hearing are not as good as their sense of smell.Like all bears, the black bear is timid, clumsy, and rarely dangerous , but if attacked, most can climb trees and cover ground at great speeds. When angry or frightened, it is a formidable enemy.Black bears feed on leaves, herbs. Fruit, berries, insects, fish, and even larger animals. One of the most interesting characteristics of bears, including the black bear, is their winter sleep. Unlike squirrels, woodchucks, and many other woodland animals, bears do not actually hibernate1. Although the bear does not during the winter moths2, sustaining itself from body fat, its temperature remains3 almost normal, and it breathes regularly four or five times per minute.Most black bears live alone, except during mating season. They prefer to live in caves, hollow logs,or dense4thickets5. A little of one to four cubs6 is born in January or February after a gestation7 periodof six to nine months, and they remain with their mother until they are fully8 grown or about one and a half years old. Black bears can live as long as thirty years in the wild , and even longer in game preserves set aside for them.英语美文欣赏80篇12-Coal-fired power plantsThe invention of the incandescent1 light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations. (which were set up at the end of the nineteenth century by Edison himself). As more power plants were constructed throughout the country, the reliance on coal increased throughout the country, the reliance on coal increased. Since the First World War, coal-fired power plants had a combined in the United States each year. In 1986 such plants had a combinedgenerating capacity of 289,000 megawatts and consumed 83 percent of the nearly 900 million tons of coal mined in the country that year. Giventhe uncertainty2 in the future growth of the nearly 900 million tons of coal mined in the country that year. Given the uncertainty in the future growth of nuclear power and in the supply of oil and natural gas, coal-fired power plants could well provide up to 70 percent of the electric power in the United States by the endof the century.Yet, in spite of the fact that coal has long been a source of electricity and may remain on for many years(coal represents about 80 percent of United States fossil-fuel reserves), it has actually never been the most desirable fossil fuel for power plants. Coal contains less energy per unit of weight than weight than natural gas or oil; it is difficult to transport, andit is associated with a host of environmental issues, among them acid rain. Since the late 1960's problemsof emission3 control and waste disposal have sharply reduced the appeal of coal-fired power plants. The cost of ameliorating these environment problems along with the rising cost of building a facility as large and complex as a coal-fired power plant, have also made such plants less attractive froma purely4 economic perspective.Changes in the technological5 base of coal-fired power plants could restore their attractiveness, however. Whereas some of these changes are intended mainly to increase the productivity of existing plants, completely new technologies for burning coal cleanly are also being developed.英语美文欣赏80篇13-StatisticsThere were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical1methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated2 to keeping orderly records of government units (states and statisticscome from the same Latin root status) and a gentlemanly gambling3 father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playingthe odds4 in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating5, ordering, and the taking of censuses-all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.Describing collections involvestabulating, depicting6 and describing collections of data. These data may be quantitative7 such as measures of height, intelligence or grade level------variables that are characterized byan underlying8 continuum---or the data may represent qualitative9 variables, such as sex, college major or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarization or。