在高中阶段，老师常常让我们去看些英语美文，利于提升写作能力，本文为大家整理了高中英语小美文摘抄，仅供参考！

　　篇1：高中英语小美文摘抄

　　Mrs. Green was the manager of a large company and she frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all， but many of the other people at the meetings did， so she often found the air during the meetings terrible.

　　One day，after an hour， her throat and eyes were sore and she was coughing a lot， so she called a big air conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.

　　After a few days the air conditioning  company sent  in two estimates2 for Mrs. Green to choose from. One estimate1 was for $5，000 to put in new air conditioning， and the other was for $5.00 for a sign which said， NO SMOKING.

　　格林太太是一家大公司的经理，必须经常在她大厦内的房间跟其他的生意人开会. 她本人不抽烟，但是许多其他来开会的人却抽烟，所以她常常觉得会场里的空气令人难受.

　　有一天，开了一小时的会，她喉咙和眼晴都很痛，而且咳口嗽得很厉害，所以她就请了一家处理空气调节的大公司，请他们计算一下要花多少钱，才能使大厦会议室内的空气保持绝对干净.

　　几天后受理空气调节的公司开了两张估价单供格林太太选择. 一张是花五千元来安置新的空气调节设备，另一张是花五块钱买一个“请勿抽烟”的牌子.

　　篇2：高中英语小美文摘抄

　　Gong Zhiqiao obtained a piece of fine Chinese tung wood and made a qin （stringed musical instrument） out of it. When installed with strings1 and plucked， it gave out a wonderful sound， harmonious2 and pleasing to the ear.

　　Gong Zhiqiao thought this was the finest instrument in the world， so he presented it to the Tai Chang Si Qing （a high official in charge of rites3 and protocol4 of the ancestral temple） who had it examined by an imperial musician， but the musician disdained5 to have a look at it. He only said "Not ancient！" and returned the instrument.

　　Gong Zhiqiao had to take it home and asked a lacquerer to paint many crackles on the instrument in imitation of an ancient qin， and asked a sculptor6 to carve on it some inscriptions7 of ancient scholars. Then he put it in a box and buried it underground.

　　After one year， Gong Zhiqiao took out the instrument from underground， and went to the market to sell it. It happened that an influential8 personage was passing by. He bought it with 100 pieces of gold and presented it to the imperial court. The imperial musicians vied with each other to look at it and praised in unison9：

　　"Ah！ It is indeed a rare stringed musical instrument in the world！"

　　工之侨得到一块优质的桐木料，用它制作了一把琴，安上琴弦，一弹，发出金玉一般的声音，和谐悦耳.

　　工之侨自以为这是世界上最好的一把琴了.于是，他就拿去献给太常寺卿.太常让皇家的乐工检验，乐工却不屑一顾，说：“不古.”把琴还给了他.

　　工之侨只好把琴拿回家，让漆工仿古，在琴上漆出许多裂纹，又让雕匠在琴上刻了古人的题字，然后装进匣子，埋在地下.

　　一年之后，工之侨把琴从地下取出来，赶到集市上去卖.有位显贵之人正好路过，出百金买下了这把琴，并把它献给了朝廷.乐工们捧着这把琴，争相传看，竟然齐声称赞：

　　“啊，真是世上少有的珍琴！”

　　篇3：高中英语小美文摘抄

　　Once a man planned to build a terrace1.

　　He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth.

　　When the mound2 was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed， the man gave up.

　　The terrace was never completed.

　　This idiom means to fail to succeed for lack of final effort.

　　古时，有一个人要筑一座九仞高的山.

　　他十分努力的建造这座山，并且花了很多时间挖土、搬运泥土.

　　终于当山快要建成的时候，几乎只差最后一篮子的泥土就行了的时候，他放弃了.

　　这座山便永远无法完工.

　　这个典故用以形容“离成功只有一步之遥，但最终失败告终”的意思.

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