　　影响美国学生近一个世纪的教科书，一套塑造美国精神与文明的语文读本！这套书读本，由美国著名教育家、俄亥俄大学校长威廉·H·麦加菲花费20多年时间倾心主编，至1920年累计销量便高达1.22亿册，是美国畅销的语文课本，被《时代周刊》评为“人类出版史上第三大畅销书”。配套英文朗读免费下载，详见书封底博客链接。

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　　这套读本的英文原版共分七级，包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与一级篇幅都较少，难易程度也很接近，于是我们将之合并为第1册，其余2-6级与英文原版相同。这样国内出版的这套读本共包括6册。第1册从字母表开始，主要侧重于字母的发音与书写、简单的单词与句型，同时强调英文书写，课文后面附有不少书法练习，让孩子们不仅将英语说得像外国人，而且写得也跟外文书法一样，这是国内英语教学所缺少的一个环节。从第2册开始，均是比较正式的课文了，每一课包括词汇和课文，对一些生词有英文解释，让学生学会通过简单英文理解生词，养成用英语理解和思维的习惯。第4册还附有课后思考练习，这些练习可以帮助学生更好理解文章，引发孩子们的思考。第5册和第6册的课文前增加了作者简介与相关背景知识，内容丰富而有一定深度。
　　从所选课文的英文难易程度来看，大致而言，这套读本的第1-3册跟国内小学毕业程度相近，第4册则适用于初中生阅读使用，第5、6册可供高中及以上程度学习者阅读。从文体方面我们可以看出，除了常见的记叙、散文体以外，这套读本对诗歌、戏剧、论说文等文体也很重视，书中选取了不少名家的名作名篇。这对国内孩子们真正感受英语这一西方语言的魄力是大有帮助的。

　　This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts, originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami University McGuffey, had a profound influence on public education in the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that the selections were chosen from a number of sources, were considered remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book, excluding the Bible.
　　It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark. McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.

作者简介

　　威廉·H·麦加菲，美国知名教育家。1800年出生于宾夕法尼亚州，1826年毕业于华盛顿大学杰斐逊学院。在数十年教育生涯中，他曾担任过迈阿密大学语言学教授，俄亥俄大学校长。自1845年开始任弗吉尼亚大学道德哲学教授。他还帮助组建了俄亥俄州公立学校体系。
　　早在19世纪初期，麦加菲就意识到，应该给那些孤独的垦荒者和欧洲移民的后代提供普遍的教育，于是他利用自己作为演讲家与教育工作者的天赋，开始为孩子们编写系列教材。这套教材共7册，从学龄前至第6年级。他前后花费了20多年的时间才完成全套教材的编写。这套教材面世后就被美国很多学校选为课本。在75年间销量高达1.22亿，直到今天仍以各种版本流行于西方，被美国《出版周刊》评为“人类出版史上第三大畅销书”，对美国青年的心灵塑造与道德培养产生了的影响。

　　William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American professor and college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and most widely used series of textbooks. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
　　He was born the son of Alexander and Anna (Holmes) McGuffey near Claysville in Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is 45 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1802 the McGuffey family moved further out into the frontier at Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He attended country school, and after receiving special instruction at Youngstown, he attended Greersburg Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Pennsylvania's Washington College, where he became an instructor.
　　He was close friends with Washington College's President Andrew Wylie and lived in Wylie's house for a time; they often would walk the 3 miles to Washington College together.
　　McGuffey's house in OxfordMcGuffey left Washington College in 1826 to become a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A year later in 1827, he was married to Harriet Spinning of Dayton, Ohio, with whom he had five children. In 1829, he was ordained at Bethel Chapel as a minister in the Presbyterian Church. It was in Oxford that he created the most important contribution of his life: The McGuffey Readers. His books sold over 122 million copies. He was very fond of teaching and children as he geared the books toward a younger audience.
　　In 1836, he left Miami to become president of Cincinnati College, where he also served as a distinguished teacher and lecturer. He left Cincinnati in 1839 to become the 4th president of Ohio University, which he left in 1843 to become president of Woodward College (really a secondary school) in Cincinnati.
　　In 1845, McGuffey moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where he became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. A year after his first wife Harriet died in 1850, he married Miss Laura Howard, daughter of Dean Howard of the University of Virginia, in 1851. McGuffey is buried in the university burial ground, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The School of Education at Miami University is housed in McGuffey Hall which is named for him and his home in Oxford is a National Historic Landmark offering tours on weekdays.

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《美国语文读本2》
LESSON 1 EVENINGAT HOME
LESSON 2 BUBBLES
LESSON 3 WILLIE'S LETTER
LESSON 4 THE LITTLE STAR
LESSON 6 AFRAID IN THE DARK
LESSON 8 PUSS AND HER KJTTENS
LESSON 9 KITTYAND MOUSIE
LESSON 11 WHAT A BIRD TAUGHT
LESSON 12 SUSIE SUNBEAM
LESSON 13 IF I WERE A SUNBEAM
LESSON 14 HENRY,THE BOOTBLACK
LESSON 15 DON'T WAKE THE BABY
LESSON 16 A KIND BROTHER
LESSON 17 MY GOOD-FOR-NOTHING
LESSON 22 THE SONG OF THE BEE
LESSON 23 THE TORN DOLL
LESSON 24 SHEEP-SHEARING
LESSON 25 THE CLOUDS
LESSON 26 PATTYAND THE SQUIRREL
LESSON 27 THE SPARROW
LESSON 28 SAM AND HARRY
LESSON 29 THE LITTLE RILL
LESSON 30THE BOAT UPSET
LESSON 31 MARY'S LETTER
LESSON 32 THE TIGER
LESSON 33 THE FIRESIDE
LESSON 34 BIRDIE'S MORNING SONG
LESSON 35 WILLIE AND BOUNCE
LESSON 36 WILLIE AND BOUNCE (CONCLUDED)
LESSON 37 THE KITCHEN CLOCK
LESSON 38 THE NEW SCALES
LESSON 39 THE BEAR AND THE CHILDREN
LESSON 40 THE LITTLE HAREBELL
LESSON 41 THE FISHHAWK
LESSON 42 WHAT THE LEAF SAID
LESSON 43 THE WIND AND THE LEAVES
LESSON 44 MAMMA'S PRESENT
LESSON 45 MARY'S STORY
LESSON 46 RALPH WICK
LESSON 47 COASTING DOWN THE HILL
LESSON 48 THE FOX AND THE DUCKS
LESSON 49 PRETTYIS THAT PRETTY DOES
LESSON 50 THE STORY-TELLER
LESSON 51 THE STORY-TELLER (CONCLUDED)
LESSON 52 THE OWL
LESSON 53 THE OWL (CONCLUDED)
LESSON 54 GRANDFATHER'S STORY
LESSON 55 GOD IS GREAT AND GOOD
LESSON 56 A GOOD OLD MAN
LESSON 56 A GOOD OLD MAN
LESSON 57 THE GREEDY GIRL
LESSON 58 APLACE FOR EVERYTHING
LESSON 59 MY MOTHER
LESSON 60 THE BROKEN WINDOW
LESSON 61 THE BROKEN WrNDOW (CONCLUDED)
LESSON 62 FRANK AND THE HOURGLASS
LESSON 64 JENNY'S CALL
LESSON 65 POORDAVY
LESSON 66 ALICE'S SUPPER
LESSON 67 A SNOWSTORM
LESSON 69 BESSIE (CONCLUDED)
LESSON 70 CHEERFULNESS

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　　LESSON 6 SMILES
　　1. Poor lame Jennie sat at her window, looking out upon the dismal1,narrow street, with a look of pain and weariness on her face. "Oh, dear," she said with a sigh, "what a long day this is going to be," and she looked wishfully up the street.
　　2. Suddenly she leaned forward and pressed her pale face against the glass, as a rosy-checked boy came racing down the street, swinging his schoolbooks by the strap. Looking up to the window, he took off his hat and bowed with a bright, pleasant smile.
　　3. "What a nice boy he is," said Jennie to herself, as he ran out of sight. "I am so glad he goes by here on his way to school. When he smiles, it seems like having the sun shine. I wish everybody who goes by would look up and smile."
　　4. "Mamma," said George West, as he came from school, "I can't help thinking about that poor little girl I told you of the other day. She looks so tired. I took off my hat and bowed to her to-day. I wish I could do something for her,"
　　5. "Suppose you should carry her a handful of pretty flowers some time when you go to school," said Mrs. West. "I'll do that to-morrow morning," said George, "if I can find my way into that rickety3 old house."
　　6. The next morning, as Jennie sat leaning her head wearily against the window, watching the raindrops chasing one another down the glass, she spied George with a handful of beautiful flowers carefully picking his way across the street. He stopped in front of her window, and, smiling very pleasantly, said, "How shall I find the way to your room?"
　　7. Jennie pointed to an alley near by, where he turned in, and with some difficulty found his way to the dingy1 staircase. Opening the door to Jennie's gentle "Come in," he said, "I have brought you a handful of flowers to look at this rainy day."
　　8. "Are they for me?" exclaimed Jennie, clapping her hands in delight. "How kind you are," she continued, as George laid them in her lap. "I have not had a flower since we live in the city."
　　9. "Did you use to live in the country?" asked George. "Oh, yes," answered Jennie, "we used to live in a beautiful cottage, and ther 美国语文读本（套装共6册） [The Eclectic Readers] 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书格式