高考英语写作素材积累
晨读美文记背 Day 16-18
Day 16 Up to You
我们经常抱怨工作压力大，才能得不到发挥，生活得很累……
当然抱怨也是一种缓解压力的方法。其实，生活是可以选择的，你
可以选择快乐，也可以选择痛苦，决策权就在你自己的手中。“牢
骚太盛防断肠，风物常宜放眼量”，何必自己为难自己呢？
Jerry was the kind of guy who was always in a good mood and
always had something positive to say.
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't
be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied,
"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 'Jerry, you have two choices
today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a
bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. You choose how you
react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You
choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live
life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon, I changed my job. We lost
touch. Several years later, I heard that Jerry was robbed and was shot. I
saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he
was, he replied, "I fell really good."
I asked him what had gone through his mind when he was taken to
the hospital.
Jerry replied, "The first thing came to my mind was that I should
have closed the back door. Then I remembered that I had two choices: I
could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live."
Jerry continued, "The nurses kept telling me I was going to be fine.
But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and the expressions
on the faces of the doctors and nurses scared me. In their eyes, I read,
'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, a nurse asked if I was allergic to anything," said Jerry, "'Yes,' I
replied. The doctors and nurses were waiting for my reply… I took a deep
breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am
choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'"
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to
live positively.
念念有词 Vocabulary
1．positive [ˈpɒzətɪv] adj. 肯定的，积极的
2．protest [ˈprəʊtest] v. 主张，断言，抗议
3．reflect on 思考，思索，影响
4．wheel [wiːl] v. 推着走，使移动前进
5．emergency room 急诊室
6．scare [skeə] v. 惊吓，使恐惧
7．allergic [əˈlɜːdʒɪk] adj. 过敏的
8．bullet [ˈbʊlɪt] n. 子弹
译笔生花 Translation
快乐还是痛苦，一切由你决定
杰瑞是那种心情总是很好，而且对事物总是有正面看法的人。
有一天我找到杰瑞，对他说：“我有些事情不是很清楚。一个
人不可能总是处于很乐观的状态。你是怎么做到的？”杰瑞回答：
“每天早上当我醒来的时候，我会对自己说，‘杰瑞，你今天有两
种选择，你可以选择心情愉快，也可以选择心情不好。’我选择心
情愉快。”
“你说的对！但是没那么容易吧！”我提出异议。
“就是很容易。”杰瑞回答，“人生就是选择。你选择如何去
面对各种处境。你选择别人的态度如何影响你的情绪。你选择是心
情愉快还是心情糟糕。你选择如何度过你的一生。”
杰瑞的话了对我产生了很大的影响。没多久，我换了份工作，
我们失去了联系。几年之后，我听说杰瑞被抢了，还受了枪伤。事
情发生的六个月之后，我见到了杰瑞。当我问起他感觉如何的时
候，他回答：“我感觉很好！”
我问他当他被送进医院的时候他想些什么。
杰瑞回答道：“我脑海里浮现的第一件事就是我应该把后门关
上。然后我记起我有两个选择：一个是选择死亡，一个是选择继续
活下去。我选择了继续活下去。”
杰瑞继续说：“医护人员不断告诉我会好的。但是当他们把我
推进急诊室的时候，他们脸上的表情让我感到害怕。他们的眼神分
明告诉我‘他是个死人’。我知道我要采取一些行动了。”
“你采取了什么行动？”我问道。
“一个护士问我是否对什么东西过敏，”杰瑞说，“我回
答‘是的’。医生和护士都在等待着我的进一步说明。我深深地吸
了一口气，然后大声地说：‘子弹！’在大笑声中，我告诉他
们：‘我选择活下去，请把我当作活人来医治，而不要把我当作死
人。’”
杰瑞活了下来不仅是因为医生的医术，更因为杰瑞惊人的生活
态度。从他的身上我明白了每天我们都应该选择去积极地面对生
活。
Day 17 Never Too Late to Become What You Want to Be
每个人都有自己的梦想，也许你正在努力地追逐自己的梦想；
也许岁月已经让你放弃了梦想，让它永远沉睡在心底。唤醒自己心
中的梦想吧，无论你现在年纪多大，境况多糟，只要心中有梦，你
就可以走过自己无悔的一生！
The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.
"Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She
jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a
couple of children, and then retire and travel."
"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her
to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a
college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we
would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always listening to this
"time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to make a speech to our
football team. I'll never forget what she taught us. As she began to deliver
her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little
embarrassed she simply said, "I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll
never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know."
As we laughed she cleared her throat and began: "We do not stop playing
because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only
four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You
have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream.
When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking
around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference
between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and
lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will
turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any
talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity
in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for
what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who
fear death are those with regrets."
At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after
graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college
students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman who taught
by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
念念有词 Vocabulary
1．motivate [ˈməʊtɪveɪt] v. 激发
2．deliver [dɪˈlɪvə] v. 发表（演说）
3．embarrassed [ɪmˈbærəst] adj. 尴尬的，困窘的
4．talent [ˈtælənt] n. 天才
5．honor [ˈɒnə] v. 尊敬，纪念
译笔生花 Translation
梦想终有成真时
开学第一天，教授把一位个子小小的老太太介绍给了我们。
随后我问道：“你为什么这么年轻还来读大学？”她开玩笑地
回答：“我来这儿是为了认识一个有钱的丈夫，结婚，生几个孩
子，然后退休去旅行。”
“不，认真点儿。”我问道。我很好奇，到底是什么东西让她
在这个年纪还要接受这样一个挑战。“我一直梦想着上大学，现在
我就在读大学！”她告诉我。
我们马上成了朋友。在随后的三个月里，我们每天一起离开教
室，不停地交谈。我总是和历经了岁月沧桑的她一起分享她的智慧
和经验。
期末的时候，我们邀请罗斯给我们的橄榄球队讲话。我永远都
不会忘记她教给我们的东西。就在她要开始进行她事先准备好的演
讲时，她把卡片掉在了地上。她有点儿尴尬，但只是说：“对不
起。这酒可真要命！我没办法再准备好我的讲稿了，就让我把我知
道的东西告诉你们吧。”我们笑了起来，她清了清嗓子，开始演
讲：“我们并不是因为年老就不再玩耍；我们变老是因为我们不再
玩耍。只有四个秘密可以让你保持年轻、快乐，获得成功。你必须
每天都开怀大笑，寻找幽默。你必须有一个梦想。当你失去了梦想
时，你就死了。我们周围有很多人，他们已经‘死了’但却不知
道。成长和长大之间有着巨大的差距。如果你现在19 岁，躺在床上
整整一年什么都不做，你也还会变成20 岁。每一个人都会长大，这
不需要任何天赋和能力。要不断地在变化中寻找机遇，这样才是成
长。不要留有遗憾。老年人通常不会为做过的事遗憾，而是为还没
有做过的事情感到遗憾。只有那些有遗憾的人才会怕死。”
年底的时候，罗斯获得了大学学位。毕业一星期后，她在梦中
安详地离开了人世。两千多名大学生参加了她的葬礼，来纪念这位
通过自己的亲身经历来告诉我们永远都可以成就自己理想的老人。
Day 18 The Fire
世界因爱而伟大，爱不仅仅只存在于亲人和朋友之间，爱同样
存在于那些“陌生人”之间。当你敞开胸怀去爱“陌生人”的时
候，你也许会发现他们并不陌生。
A couple, John and Mary, had two lovely children. John had just
been asked to go on a business trip and would be gone for several days.
Mary would go along too. They hired a reliable woman to care for the
children and made the trip, returning home a little earlier than they had
planned.
As they drove into their home town feeling glad to be back, they
noticed smoke, and they went off their usual route to see what it was.
They found a home in flames. Mary said, "Oh well it isn't our fire, let's go
home."
But John drove closer and exclaimed, "That home belongs to Fred
Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn't be off work yet, maybe there
is something we could do." "It has nothing to do with us," protested
Mary.
But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror stricken to
see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics
screaming, "The children! Get the children!" John grabbed her by the
shoulder saying, "Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children
are!" "In the basement," sobbed the woman, "down the hall and to the
left."
In spite of Mary's protests John bolted for the basement which was
full of smoke and scorching hot. He found the door and two children. As
he left he could hear some more whimpering. He delivered the two badly
frightened and nearly suffocated children into waiting arms and started
back asking how many more children were down there. They told him
two more and Mary grabbed his arm and screamed, "John! Don't go back!
It's suicide! That house will cave in any second!"
But he ran into the smoke filled hallway and into the room. At last he
found both children. As he stumbled up the endless steps the thought
went through his mind that there was something strangely familiar about
the little bodies clinging to him, and at last when they came out into the
sunlight and fresh air, he found that he had just rescued his own children.
The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some
shopping…
念念有词 Vocabulary
1．go on a business trip 出差
2．in flames 着火
3．exclaim [ɪkˈskleɪm] v. 呼喊，惊叫
4．plant [plɑːnt] n. 工厂，车间
5．drive up 把车开到近前
6．hysterics [hɪˈsterɪks] n. 歇斯底里，大笑大哭
7．sob [sɒb] v. 抽泣，呜咽
8．bolt [bəʊlt] v. 快速地跑
9．scorching [ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ] adj. 灼热的
10．whimper [ˈwɪmpə] v. 呜咽，哭泣
11．suffocate [ˈsʌfəkeɪt] v. 使窒息
12．suicide [ˈs(j)uːɪsaɪd] n. 自杀
13．cave in 下陷，塌陷
14．stumble [ˈstʌmbl] v. 踉跄，蹒跚而行
15．cling [klɪŋ] v. 紧贴，紧抱
16．rescue [ˈreskjuː] v. 援救，营救
译笔生花Translation
一场火灾
约翰和玛丽有两个可爱的孩子。公司派约翰出差几天，玛丽也
和他一起去。他们雇了一个可靠的女人照看他们的孩子，然后就走
了，回来的时候比预计的时间要早一些。
当他们高兴地开着车回到家乡的时候，他们发现了附近有许多
烟。于是他们没有按原路回家，而是去看看发生了什么事情：一座
“
”
房子正处在火海之中。哦，这不是我们的房子，我们回家吧。玛
丽说。
“
但是约翰把车开得更近一些，惊讶地喊道：这房子是在工厂里
工作的弗瑞得的，他这会儿应该还没下班，也许我们能做点儿什
”
“
”
么。玛丽不同意他的话，说：这跟我们没什么关系。
约翰还是把车开到了跟前停了下来，让他们感到惊讶和害怕的
是整个房子都淹没在火海里。草地上坐着一个女人正声嘶力竭地喊
“
”
“
着：救救孩子，救救孩子！约翰扶着她的肩头说，控制一下情
”“
”
“
绪，告诉我们孩子在哪儿！在地下室里。她呜咽着回答，沿着大
”
厅一直走，在左侧。
约翰不顾玛丽的反对冲向烟雾弥漫且异常灼热的地下室。他找
到了那扇门，发现了两个孩子。当他离开那里的时候，他似乎听到
了其他孩子的哭声。他把这两个吓坏了的几乎快要窒息的孩子交给
在外面等候的人，然后问还有几个孩子在里面。他们告诉他还有两
“
个孩子，玛丽抓住他的胳膊叫道：约翰，不要再回去了！回去是自
”
己找死！那幢房子会随时塌掉的！
但是他又冲进了那个满是烟雾的大厅，冲进了那个地下室。最
终他找到了那两个孩子。当他跌跌撞撞地爬着那没有尽头的楼梯
时，一个念头闪过了他的脑海：他感到了来自这两个紧抓着他的孩
子的熟悉的气息。当他终于呼吸到新鲜的空气，重新见到阳光的时
候，他发现他刚刚救出来的那两个孩子正是他自己的骨肉。
……
保姆在去买东西的时候把孩子放在了这幢房子里
