高三必备英语阅读好句，新概念英语好句
当我第一遍读一本好书的时候，我仿佛觉得找到了一个朋友;当我再一次读这本书的时候，仿佛又和老朋友重逢。我们要把读书当作一种乐趣，并自觉把读书和学习结合起来，做到博览、精思、熟读，更好地指导自己的学习，让自己不断成长。让我们一起到学习啦一起学习吧! 20条英语好句
1. It is important for everyone to learn English well in our rapidly developing world.
在这个迅速发展的世界里，对每个人来说，学好英语是非常重要的。
同样句型包括：It is important/(necessary, difficult, convenient, possible)for sb. to do sth.
2. The harder you work at it, the more progress you will make.
你工作越努力，你取得的进步就越大。
(1)The+比较级..., the+比较级...
(2)比较级+and+比较级(The world is getting smaller and smaller.)
3. If everyone makes a contribution to protecting the environment, the world will become much more beautiful.
如果每个人都为保护环境做出贡献，世界会变得更加美好。
类似的句型还有：If necessary…, they can…
4. The best way to remember new words is to practice them everyday.
记忆新单词最好的方法是每天操练这些单词。
5. The atmosphere in my family is fantastic
我的家庭气氛温馨和睦。
6. The reason why people choose to live in the city is that the life is more convenient and colorful.
人们为什么选择生活在城市的原因是因为城市的生活更方便、更多彩。
7. I had a great first impression of American people.
我对美国人民有了很好的第一印象。
8. We have lots of confidence in our ability to solve any problem.
我们对自己解决问题的能力有足够的信心。
9. With the rapid development of modern technology, the Internet has become a necessary part of our daily life and work.
随着现代科技的迅速发展，互联网已经成为生活和工作中必不可少的一部分。
10. You should read as many books as you possibly can.
大家应该尽可能的多读书。
11. China is becoming more and more prosperous because of the reform and “opening up” policy.
由于实施了改革开放政策，中国变得更加繁荣了。
12. We all need clean air to breathe; we all need clean water to drink; we all need green places to enjoy.
我们都需要呼吸清新的空气，我们都需要饮用洁净的水，我们都需要绿地来享受。
13. Let’s work together to make our world a better place.
让我们一起努力把世界变得更加美好。
14. We should make full use of our time to do useful and productive things.
我们应该充分利用好时间去做有用的、富有成效的事。
15. We should get into the good habit of using our time wisely.
我们应该养成一个好习惯，明智地利用时间。
16. What I really want to know is whether he will go abroad next month?
我的确想知道的是，他是否会在下个月出国。
17. Television is harmful to developing minds.
电视不利于开发心智。
18. Children usually have far more potential than their parents had realized
孩子们都有很大的潜能，而父母却没有意识到这一点。
19. In the past 10 years, great changes have taken place in our school.
在过去的10年里，我们学校发生了巨大的变化。
20. People who spend more time with their families are usually healthier and happier.
那些花更多时间和家人在一起的人通常会更健康更幸福。 新概念好词好句
1.How to grow old
How to grow old(如何安度晚年)一文出自英国哲学家和数学家伯特兰·罗素的同名演讲，新概念4的课本只节选了其中的一部分，完整版演讲可参见：http://t.cn/Rjj5twB
罗素的人生经历相当精彩，他出生于英国贵族家庭，早年进入著名的剑桥大学三一学院，后来当选为英国皇家学会院士。罗素于1950年获得诺贝尔文学奖，以表彰其“西欧思想，言论自由最勇敢的君子，卓越的活力，勇气，智慧与感受性，代表了诺贝尔奖的原意和精神”。除了在数学和哲学上的贡献之外，他还是一名和平主义者，在80多岁的高龄还积极参加反战与核裁军运动。How to grow old这篇演讲也是其人生信条的体现。
害怕死亡是人类的人性，而罗素认为，对于一个经历了生命中各种起起落落的人来说，害怕死亡并不是一件高尚的事情。怎样更好地面对生老病死呢?罗素给出了答案：
The best way to overcome it—so at least it seems to me – is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river – small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
罗素认为，克服死亡恐惧的最好方式是逐渐使自己的兴趣更加广泛，逐渐摆脱个人狭小的圈子，直到自我的围墙一点一点倒塌下来，让自己的生命与整个宇宙的生活融为一体。作者在这里用了一个很精彩的比喻：生命就像一条河流，最初窄小，限于两岸。青春时激情澎湃，冲过岩石，投入飞瀑。渐渐地河流变宽，河岸退远，水流转趋平静，最终融入大海，毫无痛苦地失去了自我的存在。从语言角度来分析，上面的句子没有一个大词，但读起来非常舒服，这种写作风格是非常值得我们借鉴的。
此外，这篇文章中还使用了委婉语(euphemism)的修饰方式：
And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome.
rest 在这里并不是指“休息”，而是death的委婉说法，因此the thought of rest应该理解为“有长眠的想法”。will be not unwelcome是双重否定，用来表达出肯定含义，但它的语气比will be welcome弱，可以理解为“未尝不是好事”。
2.Beauty
Beauty一文节选自英国哲学家C. E. M. Joad的书籍Pieces of Mind，C. E. M. Joad在早期信奉不可知论(agnosticism)，认为第一原则的确定性或绝对真理无法达到，只有可感觉的现象才是真正意识的对象，这篇文章也体现了他的不可知论思想。
在新4中Beauty属于比较难的一篇文章，它不仅在语言上比较难懂，表达的思想也比较抽象。例如：
But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries; if these intimations of a something behind and beyond are not evil humor born of indigestion, or whimsies sent by the devil to mock and madden us, if, in a word, beauty means something, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning.
这句话开始读不太好理解，因为这是一个被省略了的排比结构，还原后是 if this world is not merely a bad joke, (if) life (is not merely) a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and (if) existence (is not merely) an empty laugh… 这种省略现象有时候会在文学作品中出现。a something behind and beyond中something作为名词，所以前面用不定冠词，behind and beyond 在这里是指“玄妙的”。
句子的用词很有画面感，比如an empty laugh braying across the mysteries 其中bray一词专门指人“刺耳大笑”(if someone brays, they laugh or talk in a loud, slightly annoying way)，life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars则将人生比作群星寒光中平凡的一次闪烁。
句子最后部分 if, in a word, beauty means something, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning(一句话，如果美有某种意义的话，我们千万不要去阐明它的意义)，这里作者之所以这么说是因为他认为美是不可知的，用语言来阐明美的行为是徒劳无功的。如果想进一步了解作者的思想可以阅读他的图书Pieces of Mind
3.Galileo reborn
Galileo reborn(伽利略重生)是新4中思辨性比较强的一篇文章。伽利略是意大利物理学家、数学家以及天文学家，是16和17世纪科学革命的重要人物。他因为支持哥白尼的日心说以及宣扬科学理论而遭到宗教法庭的迫害。在人们的传统认知中，这些在当时反对伽利略的人是在反对科学和进步，应该遭到严厉谴责。但作者在此提出了不同的观点：在伽利略的那个年代观测仪器并不够精确，人们完全有理由怀疑望远镜里面看到的是幻影，而不是事实。因此，一味谴责当时的反对派并不合理。要正确评价人物需要结合历史背景。
在这篇文章中出现了不少好句子，例如：
He was, above all, a man who experimented: who despised the prejudices and book learning of the Aristotelians, who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients, and who drew his conclusions fearlessly.
这个句子连用了四个由who引导的修饰a man的定语从句，这四个句子构成了排比结构，能够极大增强句子的语气。如果去掉这个排比结构，将句子写成：
He was, above all, a man who experimented, and he despised the prejudices and book learning of the Aristotelians. He also put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients and drew his conclusions fearlessly.
整个句子读起来明显没有原句那么有力。
又比如全文最后一句：
We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo’s spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth; and if a single curved glass would distort nature, how much more would a pair of them?
最后一句话补全后是：…and if a single curved glass would distort nature, how much more would a pair of them (distort nature)? 这里结尾的反问让人印象深刻：既然在当时一片曲面镜就可以歪曲自然，那么伽利略的两片曲面镜对自然的歪曲又该多大呢?由此引发读者思考应该如何正确评价历史人物。同样，如果把上面的反问句改为陈述句：
…and if a single curved glass would distort nature, a pair of them would certainly do more to distort it.
