适合练习英语口语的短文选择

适合练习英语口语的短文选择

　　除了学生是英语学习的主力军外，越来越多的职场人士为了提高自己的职场竞争力也学起了英语。作为已经参加工作的成人，除了工作时间就没有太多富于时间去学习了，更何况，精力难以集中、记忆力下降，都成为学习上的障碍。成人学习英语最大的用处就是交流，交流最重要的就是口语的练习，如果把学习英语的精力主要集中在背诵和朗读文章上，就可以很快的提高口语，那么有哪些适合练习英语口语的短文呢?

　　适合练习英语口语的短文选择

　　首先，在选择教材的时候，一定要选择正版的原文教材。

　　市面上英语教材众多，有很多都是国内出版社出品，不是说内容上会有什么错误，而是说学习方法和学习思维上的不同。原文教材是西方人按自己的思维模式编纂的，更能代表英语的表达方式，所以在学习的时候，尽量选择那些原文教材，可以更容易学习到接近西方的表达方式。在学习之初，可以选择一些较为简单的，适合英语口语锻炼的短文进行朗读背诵，用以提高口语的表达水平。

　　其次，选择知名演讲资料。

　　有很多的著名演讲稿都是练习英语口语的最佳短文，由于演讲稿比较口语化，而且句式都比较简短，更适合于口语表达。演讲稿的另一个优点就是：涉及了当下的新闻和时事内容，能更容易了解西方的社会动态，提高学习英语的兴趣。演讲也是一种艺术活动，演讲内容中的词汇音节都讲究搭配，还会用到一些习语、谚语等，可以增加演讲的生动性。演讲的口音是最值得学习的，表达语气和表达方式都很重要，语气都很自然，更容易缩短与听众之间交流的距离，所以，在练习口语的时候，演讲稿不失为最佳的练习材料。

　　再次，阅读名著简版。

　　很多的世界名著都有精简版，选择一些自己喜欢的著作，可以当做英语口语练习的短文来背诵。可以先对照汉语翻译熟悉一下著作内容，然后进行大声朗读，之后可以分析每个句子的意思，进行英汉互译，可以很快速的提高英语口语的水平。刚开始的时候，要选择比较简单的文章，大量去练习，最初的时候可能耗时比较多，坚持下去，就会发现这是一个提速的过程，最后会发现口语和听力的反应速度都快了很多。

　　练习英语口语的短文资料很多，在选择的时候要选择适合自己能力之内的，一些幽默的小故事或者小小说都可以促使我们提起兴趣坚持下去。利用英语短文来锻炼英语口语还可以帮助我们复习单词，熟悉语法，还能提高翻译水平，可以说朗读和背诵是学习英语最好的方法。

　　范例：时间机器Time Machine

　　The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two theatrical films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in all media. This 38,000 word novella is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. It was also inspired by Charles Darwin and On the Origin of Species, showing us humans that have evolved into different species. Wells introduces an early example of the Dying Earth subgenre as well.

　　The books protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future.

　　The Time Traveller details the experience of time travel and the evolution of his surroundings as he moves through time. While travelling through time, his machine allows him to observe the changes of the outside world in fast motion. He observes the sun and moon traversing the sky and the changes to the buildings and landscape around him as he travels through time. His machine produces a sense of disorientation to its occupant, and a blurring or faintness of the surroundings outside the machine.

　　His journey takes him to the year A.D. 802,701, where he finds an apparently peaceful, pastoral, communist,[1] future filled with happy, simple humans who call themselves the Eloi. The Eloi are about four feet tall (~122 cm), pink-skinned and frail-looking, with curly hair, small ears and mouths and large eyes. Males and females seem to be quite similar in build and appearance. They have high-pitched, soft voices and speak an unknown language. They appear to be quite unintelligent and child-like and live without quarrels or conflict.

　　Soon after his arrival he rescues Weena, a female Eloi he finds drowning in a river. Much to his surprise she is grateful to him and insists on following him.

　　The Eloi live in small communities within large and futuristic yet dilapidated buildings, doing no work and eating a frugivorous diet. The land around London has become a sort of untended garden filled with unusual fruiting and flowering plants, and similarly strange yet collapsing buildings and other structures, all clearly no longer used, dotted around. There is no evidence of the implementation of agriculture or technology, of which the Eloi seem incapable.

　　The Time Traveller is greeted with curiosity and without fear by the Eloi, who seem only vaguely surprised and curious by his appearance and lose interest rapidly. He disables the time machine and follows them to their commune and consumes a meal of fruit while trying to communicate with them. This proves somewhat ineffectual, as their unknown language and low intelligence hinders the Time Traveller from gaining any useful information. With a slight sense of disdain for his hosts lack of curiosity and attention to him, the Time Traveller decides to explore the local area.

　　As he explores this landscape, the Time Traveller comments on the factors that have resulted in the Elois physical condition and society. He supposes that the lack of intelligence and vitality of the Eloi are the logical result of humankinds past struggle to transform and subjugate nature through technology, politics, art and creativity. With the realisation of this goal, the Eloi had devolved.

　　With no further need for technology, agriculture, or innovations to improve life, they became unimaginative and incurious about the world. With no work to do, they became physically weak and small in stature. Males, generally being breadwinners and workers in former times, have particularly degenerated in physique, explaining the lack of dimorphism between the sexes. The Time Traveller supposes that preventive medicine has been achieved, as he saw no sign of disease amongst his hosts. With no work to do and no hardships to overcome, society became non-hierarchical and non-cooperative, with no defined leaders or social classes.

　　The fact that there was no hardship or inequalities in societies meant there was no war and crime. Art and sophisticated culture, often driven by problems and aspirations or a catalyst for solutions and new developments, had waned, as no problems existed and there were no conceivable improvements for humanity. He accounted for their relatively small numbers as being due to the implementation of some form of birth control to eliminate the problems of overpopulation. The abandoned structures around him would suggest that prior to these achievements, the population had been larger and more productive, toiling to find the solution that would make the new utopia a reality.

　　As the sun sets, the Time Traveller muses on where he will sleep. Retracing his steps back to the building where he had eaten with the Eloi, he suddenly realizes that the time machine is missing. He panics and desperately searches for the vehicle. At first, he suspects that the Eloi have moved it to their shelter. He doubts the Eloi would be capable or inclined to do this, but nonetheless rushes back to the shelter and demands to know where his machine is. The Eloi are confused and a little frightened by this. Realising the Eloi dont understand him and he is damaging his position with them, he continues his search in desperation during the night before relenting and falling into an uneasy sleep.

　　The Utopian existence of the Eloi turns out to be deceptive. The Traveller soon discovers that the class structure of his own time has in fact persisted, and the human race has diverged into two branches. The wealthy, leisured classes appear to have devolved into the ineffectual, not very bright Eloi he has already seen; but the downtrodden working classes have evolved into the bestial Morlocks, cannibal hominids resembling human spiders, who toil underground maintaining the machinery that keep the Eloi — their flocks — docile and plentiful. Both species, having adapted to their routines, are of distinctly sub-human intelligence.

　　After further adventures, the Traveller manages to get to his machine, reactivate it as the Morlocks battle him for it, and escape them. He then travels into the far future, roughly 30 million years from his own time.

　　There he sees the last few living things on a dying Earth, the rotation of which has ceased with the site of London viewing a baleful, red sun stuck at the setting position. In his trip forward, he had seen the red sun flare up brightly twice, as if Mercury and then Venus had fallen into it. Menacing reddish crab-like creatures slowly wander the blood-red beaches, and the world is covered in "intensely green vegetation." He continues to make short jumps through time, seeing the red giant of a sun grow redder and dimmer. Finally, the world begins to go dark as snowflakes begin to fall, and all silence falls upon Earth. In the very end of the Earth, all life has ceased, other than the lichens that still grow on rocks, and a kraken-like creature, roughly the size of a football, that slowly moves onto shore.

　　Feeling giddy and nauseated about the return journey before him, he nevertheless boards his machine and puts it into reverse, arriving back in his laboratory just three hours after he originally left. Entering the dining room, he begins recounting what has just happened to his disbelieving friends and associates, bringing the story back full circle to his entrance in chapter 2. The following day, the unnamed narrator returns to the Time Travellers house. There, he finds the Time Traveller ready to leave again, this time taking a small knapsack and a camera. Although he promises the narrator he will return in half an hour, three years pass and the Time Traveller still remains missing. What happened to him, and where he ultimately ventured, remains a mystery.

　　范例：让自我价值增倍

　　A mulberry leaf touched by a genius of man becomes silk; a field of clay touched by a genius of man becomes a castle; a cut of sheep’s hair touched by a genius of man becomes clothing for a king.

　　桑叶在天才的手中变成了丝绸;粘土在天才的手中变成了堡垒;羊毛在天才的手中变成了国王的华服。只要成倍地提升自己的价值,每一件物品都可以变得弥足珍贵。

　　Everything could be precious after multiplying the value a hundred fold. I am like a grain of wheat which faces one of three futures. The wheat can be placed in a bag and fed to animals; or it can be ground3 to flour and made into bread; or it can be placed in the earth, and grow until its golden head divides, a thousand grains from the one.

　　我就像麦子上的一颗麦粒,面临着三种命运。麦子可能被装进麻袋,喂养动物;也可能被研磨成面粉,做成面包;还可能被播撒在土壤中,逐渐成长,直到金灿灿的麦穗结出成百上千颗麦粒。

　　I am like a grain of wheat with one difference because I have a choice. I will never let it grow under the rocks of failure and despair, waiting to be broken open and eaten by others. I will grow under sunshine and rain, and harvest at the time of maturity4.

　　但我是一颗与众不同的麦粒,我有选择的自由。我永远不会在失败和绝望的岩石下生长,等待自己朽裂、被吞食。我要在阳光和雨露的哺育下茁壮成长,在成熟的季节结出累累硕果。

　　范例：It’s My Birthday Today

　　Mr White was a soldier when he was young .He was brave and killed a lot of enemies and he was also hurt in the fights .He lost his right eye ,his nose and a leg .But he was givern much money for it and he nealy had all the things he wanted .Only one thing troubled him :no girl would marry such a man like him though he was rich .

　　And when he was fifty ,a friend of his brought a young woman to him .She wasn’t beautiful enough but strong .Her father died in an accident and she couldn’t live any longer because she could neither read nor write and nobody liked a woman like her .Mr White was happy and married her .And two years later she had a son Mike .Her husband liked the boy very much and did his best to satisfy him .The boy did nothing at home and he hated everything but playing .Of course he learned nothing at school .

　　Mr White died when Mike was fifteen .He left some money and the nice house to his son .The young man spent all the money on beautiful clothes and nice food in two years and then had nothing .He began to beg in the street .

　　One day he was given some food and wasn’t hungry .And he began to go to an old ,broken house in which he lived .A kind-hearted woman stopped him and asked ,“We have some leftovers here .Do you want some ?”

　　“I’am sorry ,madam ,”said Mike .“Now I wanted only some cake .”

　　“Oh ?Why ?”

　　“Because it’s my birthday today !”

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