练习口语十二篇短文

一、Grow Great by Dreams

The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman, "How have you done so much in your lifetime?" He replied, "I have dreamed.

I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning, I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, 'You can't do that, it is impossible,' I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted." As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U.S., said: "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers."

There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

二、The More Loving One

--W.H.Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am

Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them ,say I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

三、 Power of Self Talk

To come above tougher times you have to pep yourself up, when you are feeling low, lost and confused. This can be done effectively by

self-talk. Self-talk is a way of talking to oneself. It can be effectively used for soul searching. When talking to ourselves, we hardly lie as our conscience{kɔnʃəns] controls our speech. Self talk is efficient because when we are vocal about our thoughts, it makes a larger impact on our mind. Our brain then receives the same message from the mind as well as the ears. This repetition pep talks and thoughts fine tunes the performance of brain.

四、Every Woman is Beautiful

A little boy asked god, god, why do woman cry so easily? god said when I made woman, she had to be special. I made her shoulder strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet, gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when anyone else gives up and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.I gave her thesensitivity to love her children under any in all circumstances .Even when her child has hurt her very badly, I gave her strenghth to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from her rip to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strength and her resolve to stand beside him unforcingly.

五、Snow Season

What I love most about winter is its snow. The early snows fall soft and white and seem to heal the landscape. There are as yet no tracks through the drifts, no muddied slush in the roads. The wind sweeps snow into the scars of our harvest-time haste, smoothing the brow of hill, hiding furrow and cog and trash in the yard. Snow muffles the shriek of metal and the rasp of motion. It covers our flintier purposes and brings a redeeming silence, as if a curtain has fallen on the strivings