专题13 散文精选类-备战2019年中考英语提分必背美文100篇

海伦 • 凯勤作为一个盲聋哑的残疾人，祈望拥有三天的光明去感受这个世界，使她熟悉身边的一切，她想看到的事物实在是太多太多了，然而这却只是一个很美很美的梦。

Three Days to See(Excerpts)

    ①All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. ②But always we were interested in discovering just how the hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not criminals whose activities is strictly delimited.

Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?

③Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of ＂Eat, drink, and be merry＂. But most people would be punished by the coming death.

   假如给我三天光明（节选）

我们都读过令人震撼的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光。有时长达一年，有时却短至一日。但我们总会感兴趣的是，他们会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。当然，我说的是那些有选择权利

的自由人，而不是那些活动受到严格限定的罪犯。
    这样的故事让我们思考，在类似的处境下，我们该做些什么？作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想？回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐？什么又使我们悔恨不已？
    有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月和年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这种子感觉。当然，也有人奉行＂吃，喝，享受＂的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。

1. thrilling  adj.令人兴奋

2. criminal  n.罪犯，犯人

3. delimit  v.限制，定……的界

4. circumstance  n.环境，境遇

5. association n.协会，社团；联合，联系

6. mortal  adj.致命的；不共戴天的；终有一死的；

7. emphasize  v.强调，着重；加强语

8. vigor n.活力，精力

9. stretch  n.活力，精力

1. All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited time to live.

我们都读过令人震撼的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光。

in which引导定语从句，关系代词在此做状语。例如：

This is the city in which I stayed last year.

这就是那个去年我待的地方。

to live动词不定式做后置定语，例如：

Have you anything to be taken to your sister?

你有没有一些要带给你妹妹的东西？

2. But always we were interested in discovering just how the hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours.

但我们总会感兴趣的是，他们会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。

be interested in＂对……感兴趣＂。例如：

Tom is interested in exploring the mysterious nature.

汤姆对探索神秘的大自然感兴趣。

how the hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours为how引导的宾语从句，此时将问句语序改为陈述句语序。例如：

Could you please tell me how you use the new camera?

你能告诉我怎么用这个新的照相机吗

3. Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.

有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。

it 在此做形式宾语，真正的宾语是句中的动词不定式部分。例如：

They felt it difficult to finish the work in such a short time.

他们认为在这么短的时间内完成这项工作是困难的。

as if＂似乎＂，例如：

She looks as if she got back to her childhood again.

她似乎又回到了她的童年时代。