祖国在我心中诗歌高中英语学习—读美文10学知识,积累英语作文写作素材雷雨中的领悟

新高考高中英语学习

—

读美文

10

学知识

,

积累英语作文写作 素材：雷雨中的领悟

（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）

说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自

voa, bbc, cnn

经典语篇）

。

当然，我不仅仅是 提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。

读者： 高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）

（孙三五编辑）

导读

都说人生像一 场旅行，旅途的目的地是梦想中的远方。于是，

为了能够顺利到达，

我们总是

匆忙赶路，

风雨兼程。然而，就像爱尔兰传说中小矮人把宝藏藏在了彩虹尽头 一样，我们渴

望的风景有时候也是那么近在眼前又远在天边，

待到我们精 疲力竭，

才发现自己竟是一无所

获。

无论什么样的旅程，

到达终点都只应该是其中的一个目的，

值得我们驻足欣赏的还有那

一路的风景。

正文

Discovery in a Thunderstorm

雷雨中的领悟

Many

years

ago

I

was

on

a

bicycle

trip

through

some

exceedingly

picturesque

countryside.

Suddenly,

dark

clouds

piled

up

overhead

and

rain

began

to

fall,

but

strange

to

relate,

several

hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Pedaling, however, as rapidly as I could, I

found it impossible to get into the clear. The clouds with their rain kept advancing faster than I

could race forward. I continued this unequal contest for an exhausting half hour, before realizing

that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.

Then it dawned upon me that I was wasting my strength in unimportant hurry, while paying no

attention whatsoever to the landscape for the sake of which I was making the trip. The storm

could not last forever and the discomfort was not unendurable. Indeed, there was much to look

at which might otherwise have escaped me. As I gazed about with sharpened appreciation, I saw

colors and lines and contours that would have appeared differently under brilliant light. The rain

mists which now crowned the wooded hills and the fresh clearness of the different greens were

entrancing. My annoyance at the rain was gone and my eagerness to escape it vanished. It had

provided

me

with

a

new

view

and

helped

me

understand

that

the

sources

of

beauty

and

satisfaction may be found close at hand within the range of one's own sensibilities.

It made me think about other matters to which this incident was related. It helped me realize that

there is no sense in my attempting ever to flee from circumstances and conditions which cannot

be avoided but which I might bravely meet and frequently mend and often turn to good account.

I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with courage, disappointment with spirit,