想找一篇简单的英语小文章，要做口试，大概20分钟左右，词汇越简单越好。内容不要太难太复杂，谢谢啦！
最好还有中文翻译 还有更简单的吗？第一篇第二篇还是有点难
Companionship of Books以书为伴（节选）
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
以书为伴（节选）
通常看一个读些什么书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朋友，我们都应该以最好的为伴。
好书就像是你最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识；到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。
人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知已，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。有句古谚说道：“爱屋及屋。”其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并与自己喜欢的作家思想相通，情感相融。
好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，最好的书是金玉良言和崇高思想的宝库，这些良言和思想若铭记于心并多加珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和永恒的慰藉。
书籍具有不朽的本质，是为人类努力创造的最为持久的成果。寺庙会倒坍，神像会朽烂，而书却经久长存。对于伟大的思想来说，时间是无关紧要的。多年前初次闪现于作者脑海的伟大思想今日依然清新如故。时间惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。
书籍介绍我们与最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身于历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜与共，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在作者所描绘的舞台上和他们一起粉墨登场。
即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物也永生不来。他们的精神被载入书册，传于四海。书是人生至今仍在聆听的智慧之声，永远充满着活力。
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
以书为伴（节选）
通常看一个读些什么书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朋友，我们都应该以最好的为伴。
好书就像是你最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识；到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。
人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知已，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。有句古谚说道：“爱屋及屋。”其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并与自己喜欢的作家思想相通，情感相融。
好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，最好的书是金玉良言和崇高思想的宝库，这些良言和思想若铭记于心并多加珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和永恒的慰藉。
书籍具有不朽的本质，是为人类努力创造的最为持久的成果。寺庙会倒坍，神像会朽烂，而书却经久长存。对于伟大的思想来说，时间是无关紧要的。多年前初次闪现于作者脑海的伟大思想今日依然清新如故。时间惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。
书籍介绍我们与最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身于历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜与共，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在作者所描绘的舞台上和他们一起粉墨登场。
即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物也永生不来。他们的精神被载入书册，传于四海。书是人生至今仍在聆听的智慧之声，永远充满着活力。
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第1个回答 2010-04-20
A few years ago, an Englishman called Roy Jones went on holiday to a small town near the sea in the west of England. He was swimming in the sea one day. As he opened his mouth, his false ( not real ) teeth fell out and floated (漂) away. The following year, Mr. Jones returned to the same town. When he was having dinner in a local café one evening, he mentioned the story of his lost teeth to the manager. The manager looked surprised. He explained that he had found a set of false teeth on the beach last month. Then he asked Roy Jones if he wanted to try them on. “OK.” said Mr. Jones. “I suppose it won’t do any harm.” When the manager brought him the teeth, Mr. Jones put them into the mouth, and laughed and laughed. They were his!
In 1987, an American couple called Jane and Robert Bentley went for a picnic on a beach in California. When they returned home, Mrs. Bentley realized that she had lost her wedding ring (结婚戒指). It wasn’t expensive but it was valuable to Jane. The Bentleys drove back to the beach and searched for the ring for three hours, but couldn’t find it. A few months later, Mr. Bentley went fishing off the same beach. As he pulled a large crab（螃蟹）out of the sea, he noticed that there was something on one of its claws（爪）. It was his wife’s wedding ring!
初三和高一的水平吧，不知你需要哪类文章？
In 1987, an American couple called Jane and Robert Bentley went for a picnic on a beach in California. When they returned home, Mrs. Bentley realized that she had lost her wedding ring (结婚戒指). It wasn’t expensive but it was valuable to Jane. The Bentleys drove back to the beach and searched for the ring for three hours, but couldn’t find it. A few months later, Mr. Bentley went fishing off the same beach. As he pulled a large crab（螃蟹）out of the sea, he noticed that there was something on one of its claws（爪）. It was his wife’s wedding ring!
初三和高一的水平吧，不知你需要哪类文章？
第2个回答 2010-04-20
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第3个回答 2010-04-25
Sue and Alan had been dating for many years.Every weekend they went to a movie together on Saturday night On Sundays they went to the
country in the winter.
Sue knew that Alan wanted to marry her ,and she wanted to marry Alan ,too. She waited patiently for him to ask her to marry him.However, although he often told her he loved her, he never said anything about marriage. This made Sue unhappy.She was nearly thirty.She believed that if Alan did not mart her soon she might never marry.She did not want to be a spinster. She wantd to have a busband and a family of her own.
One evening,as they were walking home after a movie,she said, “Alan,don’t you think it is time you asked me something?”
Alan thought for a moment.He knew what she was thinking about.At last he said, “I’m sorry,Sue,but I don’t think I have anything to ask you at this time.”
“Then Iwill have to ask you ,Alan,”Sue said. “I cannot wait any longer.I’m getting old.”
She stopped walking ang looked at him.
“Alan,”she said, “we’ve known each other for ten years.I love you and you love me.Will you marry me?”
Alan took hold of Sue’s hand.
“Sue,”he said, “I want to marry you ,but we cannot get married yet.We have nowhere to live.I do not have much money and neither do you.We cannot buy a place of our own.”
“That isn’t important,” Sue said. “We can live with your parents .
Alan shook his head.
“I’m sorry but that isn’t possible.”
“Why not?”Sue asked.
“Because my parents are still living with their parents.”he explained.
“Have you washed your hands and face？”Billy ’s mother asked him.
“Yes，”he said.
“Show me．”
“He showed his mother his hands．
“they are filthy，”she said．“And your face is covered in dirt”
She pulled him into the bathroom，“Now wash your face and hands，”she said.
He did as she told him，but he hated doing it
“Are you afraid of soap and water？”his mother asked him．
“No，l’ m not afraid of them，”he said．“l just don’t like them．l hate washing.”
When he left the house he was clean．By the time he got to school he was dirty again．
“Look at you！”his teacher shouted．“Your face is filthy. lf your hands are dirty，too，you’ll be in trouble．Hold out your hands．”
Billy knew his hands were dirty. He quickly spit on one and rubbed it on his pants．Then he showed it to the teacher．
“That is not a clean hand, Billy,” she said．“it’s the dirtiest hand in the dirtiest hand in the class. I’m going to punish you.”
Billy looked around the class． “ It’s not he dirtiest hand in the class he said.
“All right，Billy，”the teacher said.“lf you can show me a dirtiest hand，l won’t punish you．”
With a smile，Billy quickly showed her his other hand．
country in the winter.
Sue knew that Alan wanted to marry her ,and she wanted to marry Alan ,too. She waited patiently for him to ask her to marry him.However, although he often told her he loved her, he never said anything about marriage. This made Sue unhappy.She was nearly thirty.She believed that if Alan did not mart her soon she might never marry.She did not want to be a spinster. She wantd to have a busband and a family of her own.
One evening,as they were walking home after a movie,she said, “Alan,don’t you think it is time you asked me something?”
Alan thought for a moment.He knew what she was thinking about.At last he said, “I’m sorry,Sue,but I don’t think I have anything to ask you at this time.”
“Then Iwill have to ask you ,Alan,”Sue said. “I cannot wait any longer.I’m getting old.”
She stopped walking ang looked at him.
“Alan,”she said, “we’ve known each other for ten years.I love you and you love me.Will you marry me?”
Alan took hold of Sue’s hand.
“Sue,”he said, “I want to marry you ,but we cannot get married yet.We have nowhere to live.I do not have much money and neither do you.We cannot buy a place of our own.”
“That isn’t important,” Sue said. “We can live with your parents .
Alan shook his head.
“I’m sorry but that isn’t possible.”
“Why not?”Sue asked.
“Because my parents are still living with their parents.”he explained.
“Have you washed your hands and face？”Billy ’s mother asked him.
“Yes，”he said.
“Show me．”
“He showed his mother his hands．
“they are filthy，”she said．“And your face is covered in dirt”
She pulled him into the bathroom，“Now wash your face and hands，”she said.
He did as she told him，but he hated doing it
“Are you afraid of soap and water？”his mother asked him．
“No，l’ m not afraid of them，”he said．“l just don’t like them．l hate washing.”
When he left the house he was clean．By the time he got to school he was dirty again．
“Look at you！”his teacher shouted．“Your face is filthy. lf your hands are dirty，too，you’ll be in trouble．Hold out your hands．”
Billy knew his hands were dirty. He quickly spit on one and rubbed it on his pants．Then he showed it to the teacher．
“That is not a clean hand, Billy,” she said．“it’s the dirtiest hand in the dirtiest hand in the class. I’m going to punish you.”
Billy looked around the class． “ It’s not he dirtiest hand in the class he said.
“All right，Billy，”the teacher said.“lf you can show me a dirtiest hand，l won’t punish you．”
With a smile，Billy quickly showed her his other hand．
