为初高中学生精选的诵读篇目，提高现代文化素养必备：西方文化诵读1-4系列合集（初高中适用，MP3+DOC）

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不少朋友问，暑期、周末，可以让小朋友朗读一些什么材料呢？有没有比较好的美文，能供选择？

事实上，英语诵读类的材料，是不少的，上海外语教育出版社出版的《英语诵读菁华》（小学、初中、高中、大学、研究生总共五卷）就是一套不错的书，感兴趣的朋友不妨去搜搜看。当然，在此之外，仍然有很好的诵读文选，比如今天要给大家介绍的，就是“西方文化诵读”系列文章。

“西方文化诵读”系列文章选取西方历史上有代表性、有文化价值的经典文章，包括诗歌、散文、名人演讲词及哲学文献等，让少年儿童反复读诵，进而能熟读、背诵，以达到既可以了解西方文化的精神又能熟练地运用英语的双重效果。四个系列总共60篇文章，精工制作，值得收藏。

在朗读的时候选取经典篇目，既能够帮助小朋友在英语语言的学习中有很好的沉浸式语言体验，又能够通过经典篇目所具备的深厚的、广博的人文关怀，对小朋友起到一定的教育作用，这就是教育和教学相结合的一个很好范例。

朋友们可以听听这个系列的第一篇，男声、女声各读一遍，每句两遍反复，非常适合于记忆、加深印象。附有选文的原文和权威译文，方便反复学习、领会。

可以对照下面的原文和译文学习。

General MacArthur’s Prayer For His Son

By  Douglas  MacArthur

1. Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid ; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

2. Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds ; a son who will know Thee — and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.

3. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge.

Here let him learn to stand up in the storm ; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.

4. Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high ; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men ; one who will reach into the future, yet never forger the past.

5. And after all these things are his, add, I pray enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never takt himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength. Then I, his father, will dare to whisper,＂I have not lived in vain.＂

60篇文章的详细目录：

1.General MacArthur's Prayer For His Son

2.Corimthiana 13

3.I Am Nobody

4.I Have a Dream

5.Tomorrow And Tomorrow

6.This I Believe

7.On Courtesy

8.A Psalm lf Life

9.Man's Guide

10.Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

11.Stopping by the Woods on a snowy Evening

12.My Lost Youth

13.Happiness and Contemplation

14.True and False Simplicity

15.Kubla Khan

1.Spring-------Thomas NASH

2.Tree-----------Joyce Kilmer

3.Five little Chickens-----Penryhn W.Coussens

4.Work While You Work--------McGuffey's Primer

5.I Meant to Do My Work Today-----Richard Le Gallienne

6.Persevere ----------McGuffey's Reader

7.The Arrow and the Song---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8.A Lovesy Child----Author Unknown

9.The Little Red Hen----Penryhn W.cOUSSENS

10.The Tortoise and the Hare---Aesop

11.The Lion andthe Mouse----Aesop

12.The Boy Who Cried"Wolf"------Aesop

13.The Boy and the Nuts---Aesop

14.A Speech By chief Seattle-----chief seattle

1.If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking----Emily Dickinson

2.The Kingdom of the Bees-----William Shakespeare

3.Count That Day lost----George Eliot

4.I Remember,I Remember-----Thomas Hood

5.For Everything There Is a Season---Ecclesiastes

6.Choice of Companions-----William Makepeace Thayer

7.Success ----------------Wilferd A.Peterson

8.The 23rd Psalm-----The Bible

9.My Creed----------Dean Alfange

10.On Knowledge------W.F.Markwick and W.A.Smith

11.The Crow and the pitcher-----Aesop

12.The Ants and the Grasshopper-----Aesop

13.The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs-----Aesop

14.The Frogs and the well-----Aesop

15.The Fox and the Crow-----Aesop

16.The Bundle of Sticks-----Aesop

17.The Bear and the Travelers-----Aesop

1.To My Daughter----F.Scott Fitzgerald

2.The Declaration of Independence----Thomas Jefferson

3.On Self-Discipline----Aristotle

4.What a Baby Costs---Edhar Guest

5.If You Were----Author Unknown

6.The Character of a Happy Life---Henry Wotton

7.Thinking on Friendship---William Tyler Page

8.The Athenian Oath---Ancient Athens

9.The American's Creed---Wlliam Tyler Page

10.The Ten Commandments----The Bible

11.The Quality of Mercy---William Shakespeare

12.Too Dear For The Whistle---Benjamin Franklin

13.The Farmer and His Sons---Aesop

14.The Brave Mice---Aesop

Enjoy！

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