读者文摘英语文章

Reading is a good habitI am reading a good article in Reader's Digest.我在读《读者文摘》中的一篇好文章。It is Benefits of Reading. 文章叫《读书的好处》We can get smart, healthy and happy.我们可以变得聪明、健康和快乐。A lot of reading can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease.大量的阅读可以保护大脑免受阿尔茨海默病（的困扰）。Reading a page-turner or simply scanning a manufacture instruction of coffee maker can reduce our stress.阅读一本引人入胜的书或简单地浏览一份咖啡机的生产说明书就能减轻我们的压力。And reading some books how someone overcame obstacles and achieved success encourage us to meet our goal.而且阅读一些如何克服障碍取得成功的书能激励我们达到我们的人生目标。We can experience different kinds of life in stories with authors. 我们可以和作者一起去经历故事中的各种各样的人生。Rich experience strengthens our ability to understand other's feelings.丰富的经历会加强我们对别人的情感的理解能力。Reading is a good habit because we can benefit a lot from it.阅读是个好习惯，因为我们可以从中受益良多。

经济学人，时代周刊，自然杂志，卫报，科学美国人等等。

不管考雅思、托福还是GMAT、GRE，亦或者考专八、MTI等，不仅需要大量做题，往往还需要大量的外刊阅读。

而且这部分考试的很多原题都是直接从外刊上摘取，就算不考虑这部分因素，外刊的阅读也有益于扩展你的英语知识库，熟悉英语阅读，积累更多的写作或口语素材。

英语外刊那么多，也并非全部都要看，贪多不烂，更何况质量也参差不齐，那么问题来了，哪些外刊最有用呢？小叮当来给你带来介绍。

一、国家地理 National Geographic

在大多数读者眼中，国家地理杂志意味着权威、科学性、准官方，它更像是一本百科全书而不仅仅是一本杂志。

这本杂志看上去感觉是介绍美国地理，其实经过一百多年的发展，其内容早已超出地理学的范围，涉及社会、历史、风土人情、摄影、文化、美食等内容。

在过去的一百多年里，它的视角立足全球，从极地到内陆，从海底到月球，从草原森林中残存的原始部落，到现代化都市中奔忙的人群。它不但记录了地理的概貌，而且记录了一百多年来世界政治、经济、历史和文化的变迁，记录了人类的梦想和追求。

之所以推荐NG，是因为该杂志图文并茂，趣味性爆表，并且词汇和句式相对简单，同时又具备很高的文学性，绝对能给你带来极大的阅读快感，让你在无形中提升英语。

二、经济学人 The Economist

《经济学人》是一份由伦敦经济学人报纸有限公司出版的杂志，创办于1843年9月，杂志主要关注政治和商业方面的新闻，但是每期也有一两篇针对科技和艺术的报导，以及一些书评。

而且《The Economist》杂志中所有文章都不署名，而且往往带有鲜明的立场，但又处处用事实说话，也正是基于此，通常能够深刻影响学生党的世界观和认知观，搭建英语语感的思维方式。

《The Economist》在语言方面的精巧使用和再创造堪称英语杂志最佳。它坐拥一系列牛津大学出身的总编辑，是学习英语写作的超级范本，其语言风格机智、严谨、有力度，用词也紧跟时代发展的潮流。

当然，对于中国来说，最重要的还是《The Economist》是所有英语考试的题源，包括高考英语、CATTI翻译证书、MTI考研、托福、雅思、专四专八、四六级、考研英语、GMAT、GRE等等。

三、科学 Science

该杂志于1880年由爱迪生投资1万美元创办，是发表最好的原始研究论文、以及综述和分析当前研究和科学政策的同行评议的期刊之一，也是全世界最权威的学术期刊之一。

有些人可能会担心《科学》杂志的内容过于晦涩难懂而难以阅读，这个大可以放心，虽然它的科学新闻报道、综述、分析、书评等部分，都是权威的科普资料，但该杂志也适合一般读者阅读，英语基础只要不错就可以尝试阅读。

如果说大部分杂志比较适合文科生的话，《科学》绝对是理工科学生的心头挚爱，特别是研究生和博士生，如果要发表SCI论文，《科学》更能提供最前沿的科学思维和写作方式。

四、纽约客 The New Yorker

创刊于1925的《纽约客》已经走过了90多年，历经纸媒、电子媒体和社交媒体的更迭，它不是完全的新闻杂志，然而它对美国和国际政治、社会重大事件的深度报道也是其特色之一。

首先，必须承认《纽约客》是本文青刊物，专栏囊括小说、诗歌评论、书评、影评、乐评等。同时，对于时事与国内、国际政治的深度报道显示了其追求极致的野心，高质量的报道常常让它受到普利策奖的垂青。

相比于《经济学人》与《科学》的精英学术，《纽约客》更适合年轻人一窥当代美式文艺与腔调。ACT、托福、雅思考试里常常会出现《纽约客》的文章。

五、时代周刊 TIME

《时代周刊》作为全世界发行量最大且最主要的新闻杂志，封面人物代表了举足轻重的新闻热度。能登上《时代周刊》封面的人物都是在全球政治、经济、文化等领域引起了风暴的人，而这其中重中之重，就是杂志每年的“年度人物”（Persons of the year）。

而且时代周刊的权威性不仅仅是靠封面那些大人物带动的，它见证了这个世界近一百年的风云变幻，文章相对客观，有深度，基本上看时代周刊就能较为准确的了解世界上近期发生的大事，经济，科技，人文方面的一些最新进展，而这些内容又往往紧扣时代的命题，也需要英语学习者一直不断阅读、学习。

六、读者文摘 Reader's Digest

说到《读者文摘》（Reader's Digest），大多数人第一时间会想到中国的《读者》，实际上这是完全不同的杂志。

Reader's Digest1922年创刊，是一本能引起大众广泛兴趣的内容丰富的家庭杂志。这份每月出刊的杂志文章风格简明易懂，内容丰富广阔，且多富含恒久的价值和趣味。

同时，它还致力于为各个年龄、各种文化背景的读者提供信息、开阔视野、陶冶身心、激励精神。

它所涉猎的主题有健康保健、大众科学、体育运动、美食烹饪、旅游休闲、金融与政治、家居与园艺、艺术与娱乐、商业与文化。其他固定的专栏还包括了笑话、谜语、测试、动画及读者来信。

七、名利场

Vanity Fair是美国老牌杂志，创刊于1913年，借用十九世纪英国名作家威廉·萨克雷（William Thackeray）成名作名利俱乐部命名，同样定位于上层社会的浮华世界。

名利场扮演着“从新星到巨星”的全球最华贵舞台提供者的角色，更让人佩服的是，它在国家杂志评奖中在最佳杂志、摄影、专栏、随笔和评论上均获提名。这种浮于华丽世界中却扎实经营杂志本体的内容建设的用心值得称颂。

内容涉及上层社会生活方式，品味，宴会话题，明星生活，艺术，体育，幽默等，还根据大众兴趣推出社会突发事件和热点问题。如果你是走在时尚潮流沿线的青年，适合志于进军时尚圈的你。

八、新科学家

《New Scientist》是一个自由的国际化科学杂志，内容关于最近的科技发展，网站开始于1996年，登载每天的关于科技界的新闻。杂志并非是一个经过同行评议的科学杂志，但被科学家和非科学家广为传阅，杂志还经常刊登一些评论，比如气候变化等环境问题。

在英国，《New Scientist》是每一个学校的Science系必须具备的杂志，里面介绍了许多高端的科学项目，比如BioPhysics的离子加速器，BioChemistry 的基因工程等。书中还宣传许多科技活动，比如专家公开演讲等。主要阅读者是在英国就读A level-science课程和大学Science的学生和导师。

多个考试阅读考题必备题源，该杂志会经常刊登一些环境问题，这类内容很有可能出现在自然科学类阅读题中。你做过的每本剑桥雅思真题，都有这本杂志的原文哦！

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这个来源就比较多了，一般都是英美比较主流的报刊杂志比如《经济学家》《新闻周刊》《纽约时报》《时代周刊》这些都有出合集的，或是去相关官网上直接看也可以

"KIDS ON THE TRACK!" Jack MurphyMonday, May 1, 1989 was a pleasant morning in Ramsey, . Kate Pritchard bent over her car trunk and struggled with the bags of groceries she'd just brought home. She heard the distant cry of a locomotive horn. The trains of Conrail passed less than 300 feet from the Pritchards' house. No fence separated their backyard from the track — only a thick row of trees. But, her sons, 3(1/2)-year-old Todd and 18-month-old Scott, were nearby, playing on the driveway. "Stay right there," Kate said, "while Mommy puts the groceries away. Then we'll go inside and have lunch, okay?" "Okay!" said Todd, giving a thumbs-up gesture he'd seen his father make. "Okay!" echoed Scott, trying to copy his older brother. 7S\-I8|? i3dq3RV0They watched their mother enter the house with several bags. Kate shut the refrigerator and hurried outside. Good. The boys were playing right where she'd left them. As she lifted more bags from the trunk, Kate heard a train race past — a passenger express, she judged from its speed. She carried more bags into the house. The sounds of the train apparently drew the boys' attention to the track. After making their way through the trees, they climbed to the top of the steep roadbed, knelt down along the railroad and began to play. *w[)BY l0WvDW3k0A few thousand feet west, a freight train rolled slowly toward the children. Overhead lights signaled to engineer Rich Campana that the passenger train ahead was out of the way, and they could resume their normal speed of 40 miles per hour. The engineer adjusted the accelerator, then turned to conductor Anthony Falzo, a man, medium in height and strongly built, who had worked for Conrail for almost half of his 35 years. "So what'd you do over the weekend, Anthony?" "Oh, not much. Mostly messing around — a little TV, then bed. What else?" Campana smiled. "Hey, you'd better cool down, Anthony — you're getting to be a real party animal!" The two men laughed. They were still laughing as the train began gathering speed, moving at 21 miles per hour. Rich and Anthony spotted something ahead at the same instant. "What's that up there?" asked the engineer. Anthony didn't answer. Staring intently, he was trying to identify the curious shape on the track ahead. A box? Old rags?Suddenly both men realized what it was. Rich threw on the emergency brake and pulled on the air-horn handle with all his strength. The horn's blast and Anthony's words exploded at the same time: "Kids on the Track!" Anthony sprang through the cab door onto a narrow running board six feet above the wheels and raced to the front of the swaying train. Climbing quickly down a steel ladder, he paused at the bottom, two feet above the roadbed flashing by. Now he could clearly see the two little children. They were sitting alongside the rail. Anthony waved wildly and shouted, "Get away! Get away!" He mentally calculated the train's deceleration rate and groaned. We'll never stop in time. Absorbed in play, Todd and Scott did not hear the train. Finally, as the sound became thunderous, Scott looked up and froze. Though the train was slowing, Anthony knew it was still going faster than he could run. So he forced himself to wait until he would be close enough to leap off and grab the boys. With perhaps ten feet left between them and the sharp-edged snowplow blade at the front of the train, Anthony sprang forward from the ladder. Landing on the loose, fist-size stones alongside the track, he had to struggle to keep his balance. In two giant steps he almost reached the children. They stared up at him in wide-eyed shock. Anthony, throwing his body into space, flew toward unending blast of the train horn struck Kate Pritchard like a hammer blow. "The boys! " she cried, and raced out the door. They were gone! The track, she thought. I must get to the track! As his body crashed downward, Anthony covered Todd while reaching out with one arm to grab Scott and pull him clear of the track. But the train had caught up to them. Anthony saw the black steel edge of the snowplow blade hit the young child under the chin, driving his head back and scraping over his face. Instantly, blood flashed across the boy's forehead. Part of the train then punched into the back of Anthony's work jacket, tearing the nylon fabric. Still, Anthony managed to pull Scott completely under him. He's dead, Anthony thought. He felt sick with horror. Burying his face in the stones, he pushed downward on the two boys with all his strength as the train passed inches above them. The first person Kate saw when she reached the halted train was Todd. Her older boy was jumping up and down and crying uncontrollably. But Kate could see he wasn't injured. She grabbed and hugged him. Then she saw the still figure of a man lying under the third car. Scott's head, a mask of darkening blood, was visible under him. Kate ran to them. "Scott!" she twisted to face her. "Lady," he said, his voice calm, "go to your house. Call the police and ambulance." Kate, only half hearing him, extended her arms to take her baby. Anthony spoke again, more sharply, "Ma'am, listen! Go to your house and call the police — call an ambulance. Go!" Kate tore back to the house, made the calls, then reached her husband, Gary, via his the first police car arrived, Anthony was still holding little Scott. The conductor knew from the child's cries that he was alive, but Scott might have internal injuries that any movement could worsen. So Anthony insisted the emergency personnel check the boy before he would release his grip. Miraculously, Scott's injuries were not serious, requiring just 13 stitches. fgkm:ovS0There had only been 14 inches between the plow blade and the ground. Reporters later asked Anthony if he had hesitated before risking his life. "No," he replied. "All I could think was that those two little kids have their whole lives still ahead of them, and if I do nothing, they're dead. There was no way I could let that happen." Soon after the incident, Anthony visited the Pritchards' home. He recalls putting his arms around Todd and Scott and lifting them. "It made me remember the moment when I first sheltered them under the train. It was a strange feeling, holding them again — and wonderful too." Since that first visit, the Pritchards say that Anthony has almost become a member of the family. They also report that a fence now separates their neighborhood from the railroad track.(1161 words)

呃~其实完全读得懂的话就达不到训练的目的了哦~你的程度如何？如果要完全读得懂..可以推荐你一个series的名著读本：《bookworm》书虫系列。挑这个系列的intermedia level读本，绝对读得懂~不过我真的不建议你读这些..对你没有什么好处。《疯狂英语》和《reader digest》（读者文摘英文版）其实都很容易读的，里面的文章也很有趣味。尤其是reader digest，里面的一些文章的段落很值得记下来哦~以后写文章非常有用的（这一点上了高中你就更有体会了~现在开始积累吧~）个人更推荐《Teens》这份报纸，非常有意思！！它是21st century报社办的（就是出china daily的那个）里面有很多最新资讯，比如欧美乐坛、英超，也有很多最近hot issue，比如能源、温室效应、奥运、美国大选...主题很紧贴潮流，单词不会很难，而且对于写得好的句子还有一些分析赏析（这一部分的分量刚刚好，既不太少，又不会多到影响阅读兴趣），单词也不会很难，读了之后跟外国朋友聊天就再也不会只有单调的“what's your name”了如果程度比较好的话，推荐你看《national geography》（国家地理杂志）和《Times》（时代周刊）我自己非常喜欢时代，因为里面的文章对时事的分析很透彻；而国家地理杂志有很多介绍各个国家人文风情还有前沿自然科学知识的文章，如果有兴趣的话值得一读~...不过难度确实是大了一点...国家地理有中文版，不过时代周刊因为内容比较敏感，所以国内很少有中文版（即使有也贵得离谱）有人推荐你看新概念2？挺好的一本书，不过毕竟是一本教材，估计你看了一半就要睡着了..呵呵~