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A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm -- two entirely different movements. Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner's responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties: the hammers that hit the strings have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear. This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sounds with fanatical but selfless authority. Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.
小精灵926
英语短文是我们英语晨读的最佳阅读材料，下面我为大家分享晨读英语短美文，希望大家喜欢!
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
我收到我妹妹的一封信昨天。她住在尼日利亚。在她的信中，她说她明年将到英国来。如果她来，她会大吃一惊。我们的国家现在是生活在一个美丽的新房子。这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前。房子是五个月前完工。在我的信中，我告诉她，她可以和我们住在一起。这栋房子里有许多房间，还有一个漂亮的花园。这是一个非常现代化的住宅，因此在有些人看来很古怪。它必须是这个地区唯一的一栋现代化住宅。
I entered the hotel manager's office and sat down. I had just lost $50 and I felt very upset. 'I left the money in my room,' I said, 'and it's not there now.' The manager was sympathetic, but he could do nothing. 'Everyone's losing money these days,' he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelope on his desk. It contained $50. 'I found this outside this gentleman's room,' she said. 'Well,' I said to the manager, 'there is still some honesty in this world!'
我走进饭店经理的办公室，坐了下来。我刚刚丢了50英镑，感到非常烦恼。"我把钱放在房间里，"我说，"可现在没有了。"经理深表同情，但却无能为力。"现在大家都在丢钱，"他说。他开始抱怨起这个邪恶的世界，但却被敲门声打断了。一个姑娘走了进来，把一个信封放在了他桌上。它包含了50美元。"我先生的房门外发现了，"她说。"好吧，"我对那位经理说，"这世界上还是有诚实可言的!"
Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered(adj.被困得走投无路的). The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people complained of 'cat-like noises' at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from ? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.
美洲狮是一种体形似猫的大动物，产于美洲。当伦敦动物园接到报告说，在伦敦以南45英里处发现一只美洲狮时，这些报告并没有受到重视。可是，随着证据越来越多，动物园的专家们感到有必要进行一番调查，因为凡是声称见到过美洲狮的人们所描述的情况竟是出奇地相似。
SSpapergirl
在这里提供晨读英语美文100篇 会有相当难度，
有难度的原因是： 篇幅会有点长，
给您的建议：
1. 去书店或淘宝去购买，应该会以很适合的价格买得到心仪的书。
2，以下二篇供您参考一下：
篇目1. Old Friends, Good Friends
More than 30 years ago, when I took my first jobin New York City, I found myself working with a number of youngwomen. Some I got to know just in passing, but othersgradually became my friendToday, six of these women remain an important part ofmy life. They are more than simply friends, more even thanclose friends. They are old friends, as indispensable as sunshineand more dear to me than ever. These people share a long-standing history withme. In fact, old friends are a lot like promises. They put reliability into the uncertainty of life and establish a reassuring link between the past,present,and future.The attachment between friends who have knowneach other for many years is bound to be complex. On occasion we are exceedingly close, and at othertimes one or both of us invariably step back. Ebb and flow. Thick and thin. How smoothly and gently we negotiate these hillsand valleys has everything to do with how well the friendshipages.Sometimes events intervene in a way that requiresus to rework the term of a relationship. A friend starts a second career, let’s say, andsuddenly has less free time. Another remarries, adding someone new to theequation. Talk honestly and listen to each other to find outif the other’s needs are being met. Renegotiating pays full tribute to life’sinevitable changes and says that we deem our friendships worthy ofpreserving.Old friends are familiar with the layers of ourlives. They have been there in the gloom and the glory. Even so, there’s always room to know more aboutanother person. Of course, self-disclosure can make even oldfriends more vulnerable, so go slowly: Confiding can open new doors, but only if we knockfirst.Time is the prime commodity between old friendsby this I mean the time spent doing thingstogether. Whether it’s face to face over a cup of coffee, side by side while jogging, ear to ear over thephone, or via email and letters, don’t let too much time go by without sharing yourthoughts with each other
篇目2. Three Days to SeeMost of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. The days stretch out in an endless vista, so we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf
for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.When walking the woods, I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In the spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud—the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter’s sleep. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had only three more days to see. If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon?I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest on the things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.
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《大学英语四级美文晨读100篇》是作者在深刻领悟英语教学规律、学习水平提升规律以及困扰广大四六级考生的疑问之后而倾心编著的。有人说，新东方的课堂和老师充满了活力和激情，充满了动力和奋进的勇气；有人说，新东方的课堂只要你走进去，什么考试问题都会迎刃而解；有人说，新东方就是讲考试技巧的，四、六级考研通不过了，雅思托福考分低了，都可以到新东方解决。我要说，这些都是真的，这是新东方课堂和老师固有的特色和魅力，但只有这些远远不够。谈到活力与激情，我们远不如2008年中国北京奥运会；谈到动力和奋进的勇气，我们远不如比尔·盖茨、索罗斯等商界大鳄的励志讲座；谈到技巧，我们远不如杂技和魔术能够带给我们的震撼和折服。但是，我们的课堂和老师为什么还是那么受学生欢迎、热爱和追捧。我想，这不仅是我们有这些，充其量来说，活力和激情以及勇气和技巧只是我们的授课形式而已，而在这些形式之外，我们带给考生更多的是对于考试规律和英语学习规律的研究和把握，能够把这些规律运用到教学中去，让考生既能学到东西，又能够学得很开心。这样就达到了我们的愿望和目的。
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