爱华网在我国,由于英语是非母语的学习,在学习过程中没有语言环境的熏陶,那么,阅读便成为人们获取信息、提高英语水平的有效途径。下面是小编带来的初一长篇英语文章，欢迎阅读!
初一长篇英语文章1科学家告诉你：这样学才记得牢
The older we get, the harder it seems to remember names, dates, facts of all kinds. It takes longer to retrieve the information we want, and it often pops right up a few minutes or hours later when we are thinking about something else. The experts say that keeping your mind sharp with games like Sudoku and crossword puzzles slows the aging process, and that may be true, but we found three other things you can do to sharpen your memory.
随着年龄的增长，我们似乎越来越记不住人名、日期、还有各种事情。我们要花更多的时间搜寻脑内的信息，而这些信息往往在我们开始想别的事情的时候突然涌出脑海。专家认为经常玩数独游戏和填字游戏可以减缓脑部衰老的过程。这也许可行，但是我们还发现了另外三种方式来提升记忆力。
1. Vary Your Study Space
1. 更换学习场所
A study shows students who studied a list of words in a windowless room and again in a room with a view did far better on a test than students who studied only in the room without a view.
研究表明，先在一间无窗教室里学习单词后搬到有窗教室的学生要比一直在无窗教室里学习并且欣赏不到风景的学生掌握得更好。
Dr. Robert A. Bjork, psychologist at the University of California, L.A. and senior author of the research, states, “What we think is happening here is that, when the outside context is varied, the information is enriched, and this slows down forgetting.”
加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校的心理学家罗伯特·A·比约克博士称，“我们认为之所以会产生这种结果，是因为外部环境改变时，学生获得的信息变丰富了，这就减缓了遗忘的过程。”
2. Vary What You Study
2. 更换学习内容
The same principal may apply to what you study. Musicians and athletes have known this for years. They practice cross-training.
相同的原理可以用在学习内容上，多年前音乐家和运动员就已经知道这个道理了。他们采用交叉培训的方式来练习。
“Varying the type of material studied in a single sitting — alternating, for example, among vocabulary, reading and speaking in a new language — seems to leave a deeper impression on the brain than does concentrating on just one skill at a time,” Carey writes.
凯利在其研究中写道，“在同一段时间里学习不同类别的内容，比如，学习一门新语言时可以在词汇、阅读、口语等不同技能间转换，这样比单单学习一种技能在大脑里留下的印象更深。”
It might also be helpful, and this is my advice, to vary your learning style. Most of us use more than one style anyway, but if you find yourself relying primarily on visual learning, try auditory or kinesthetic techniques. You might be surprised.
我给出的另一个也许有用的建议是，改变学习方式。大多数人都会采用不止一种的学习方式，但是，如果你发现自己主要采用视觉学习，可以试着加上听觉或者肌肉运动知觉，效果也许很惊艳。
3. Test Yourself Often
3. 经常检测自己
It also turns out that when a student is required to retrieve information, say for a test, that information is re-stored in the brain in a more accessible way for future use.
事实证明，当一个学生被要求在脑内搜寻一个信息，比如考试，那么这些信息就会被储存在大脑里，供其今后更方便地使用。
Carey reports that researchers don’t know why this is true, just that it is.“It may be that the brain, when it revisits material at a later time, has to relearn some of what it has absorbed before adding new stuff — and that that process is itself self-reinforcing,” he writes.
凯利表示，研究者们不理解为什么会这样，但事实确实如此。他写道，“也许是大脑在后来重新回忆这些内容的时候，在新加上一些内容前，需要重新回顾之前吸收的内容，这样的过程就相当于大脑的自我强化。”
“The idea is that forgetting is the friend of learning,” Carey quotes Dr. Nate Kornell, a psychologist at Williams College, as saying. “When you forget something, it allows you to relearn, and do so effectively.”Practice tests, then, are powerful learning tools.
凯利引用威廉姆斯学院心理学家奈特·科内尔博士的一段话，称“遗忘伴随着学习。遗忘使你重新学习某件事，并能更高效地学习。”那么，不断测试自己就成了有用的学习工具。
初一长篇英语文章2自省时间：害怕被吐槽?那就别再吐槽别人了
About a month ago, I thought I would try to go a whole day without judging anyone else I encountered. Have any of you ever tried it? It's incredibly hard.
大约一个月前的一天，我突然想要尝试坚持一天不去评判任何人。有人试过这么做吗?真的很难。
There was the woman walking down the street blowing cigarette smoke in her kid's face; the guy at the beach wearing his bright yellow banana hammock; and the woman at the grocery store with 30 items in the 15-items-or-less line.
一位女士在街上走着，喷了一口烟在她孩子的脸上;沙滩上，一位男子躺在香蕉型大吊床上;杂货店的某个女人带着三十多件商品却跑去“15件以下”的队伍结账……
My challenge of going a whole day without judging actually turned into an exercise that said less about the people around me and more about myself; it caused me to start examining myself.
坚持一天不去评判别人，这项挑战到后来更像是一种练习，锻炼我少说闲话，多关注自己。它让我开始审视我自己。
I wonder if sometimes we fear the way others respond to us because the way they treat us is a mirror of the way we ourselves behave. Maybe that's why we notice certain attributes in others, and maybe that's why those attributes can get under our skin. Perhaps it's because deep down we identify with these behaviors that rub us the wrong way.
我很好奇，是不是有时我们害怕别人对待自己的态度是因为这恰好映射出了我们的行为。也许，这也是为什么我们会对别人身上某些特质特别敏感、特别抓狂。
During my day of no judgment, I tried hard to focus my thoughts inward, so as not to be tempted to judge. And while I was taking a good hard look at myself, I realized that my fear of being judged came from my own tendency to judge.
在没有了评判的一整天中，我试着关注自己的内心，这样就不会有对人指手画脚的想法了。然而当我好好反省自己的时候，我认识到，我对外界评判的恐惧竟然来源于自己评判别人的习惯。
"Look at her shoes; I can't believe she wore that dress; check out that guy's hair." Maybe it's just human nature to do this, but once I became conscious of the habit, I realized how often I do it, which brought up the million-dollar question: "Who am I to judge?" No one, that's who!
“看她那双鞋啊!”“这种裙子她也敢穿出来?”“看那男人的发型。”也许这些都是人之本性，而一旦我注意到这一习惯，就会发现它有多频繁。接着关键问题就来了：“我有什么资格去评判?”答案就是：没有!
After a day of working hard not to judge anyone, I was exhausted. I was grateful to get home where I didn't have to interact with anyone. But the day of examining myself had left me reeling.
在没有了评判的一整天中，我身心俱疲。我很庆幸终于能够回到家，不用再和任何人打交道。不过这一天的自我反省让我内心大为震动。
If you've never examined yourself, go ahead and do it! If you're afraid to do it (because you're afraid of what you'll find out) that's even more of a reason to go ahead with the exercise. Examining yourself can help you build a healthy self-awareness.
如果你还没试过审视自我，放手去做吧!如果你对此感到害怕(因为你害怕会发现什么结果)，那这恰恰是你要去这么做的理由。审视自己将会帮助你建立自我认知。
So go ahead -- check yourself out! You never know what you might find.
所以，来吧——审视你自己!你永远不知道会有什么样的发现。
