英語課外閱讀新聞
提高英語的水平往往可以看一些英語的新聞和閱讀，還有英語的電視劇和電影，這樣可以很快的提高我們的英語口語，接下來小編給大家帶來英語新聞，需要的同學們可以看一看。
課外閱讀1
盧迪亞德·基普林，巴勃羅·畢加索，歐內斯特海明威，提到這些著名的藝術家和詩人，你第一個想到的是什麼呢?是的，他們都是時代的巨人，還有呢?是的，他們都曾經在海外生活過。或許你還不清楚我說的意思，然而近來有專家通過實驗指出在海外生活的人明顯比其他人的創造力要強，並有較高的應變能力。
Living abroad gives you a creative edge
ANECDOTAL (軼事的，趣聞到)evidence has long held that creativity in artists and writers canbe associated with living in foreign parts. Rudyard Kipling(盧迪亞德·基普林), Pablo Picasso(巴勃羅·畢加索), Ernest Hemingway(歐內斯特海明威), Paul Gauguin(保羅·高更), SamuelBeckett(塞繆爾·貝克特) and others spent years dwelling(居住) abroad. Now a pair ofpsychologists has proved that there is indeed a link.
As they report in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology(《個性與社會心理雜誌》), William Maddux of INSEAD, a business school in Fontainebleau, France(法國楓丹白露), andAdam Galinsky, of the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, presented 155 Americanbusiness students and 55 foreign ones studying in America with a test used by psychologists asa measure of creativity. Given a candle, some matches and a box of drawing pins, thestudents were asked to attach the candle to a cardboard wall so that no wax would drip onthe floor when the candle was lit. (The solution is to use the box as a candleholder(燭臺) and fix it to the wall with the pins.) They found 60% of students who were either living abroador had spent some time doing so, solved the problem, whereas only 42% of those who had notlived abroad did so.
A follow-up (繼續的，重複的)study with 72 Americans and 36 foreigners explored theircreative negotiating skills. Pairs of students were asked to play the role of a seller of a petrolstation who then needed to get a job and a buyer who would need to hire staff to run thebusiness. The two were likely to reach an impasse because the buyer had been told he couldnot afford what the seller was told was his minimum price. Nevertheless, where both negotiatorshad lived abroad 70% struck a deal in which the seller was offered a management job at thepetrol station in return for a lower asking price. When neither of the negotiators(談判代表) hadlived abroad, none was able to reach a deal.
To check that they had not merely discovered that creative people are more likely to chooseto live abroad, Dr Maddux and Dr Galinsky(馬克達斯和加林斯基) identified and measuredpersonality traits(特點), such as openness to new experiences, that are known to predictcreativity. They then used statistical controls to filter out such factors. Even after that hadbeen done, the statistical relationship between living abroad and creativity remained, indicating that it is something from the experience of living in foreign parts that helps fostercreativity.
Merely travelling abroad, however, was not enough. You do have to live there. Packing yourbeach towel and suntan lotion will not, by itself, make you Hemingway.
Keke Vew: 中國學生海外留學情況
英國廣播公司報道，中國留學生選擇某一國家出國的原因呈現多樣性，其中，留學國的“教學、科研質量”以及“學位的認可程度”成爲廣大中國出國留學生選擇某一國家的最重要的原因。
美國依然是中國學生的首選留學目的地。超過半數的留學生將美國作爲出國留學的“第一選擇”(佔51.8%)，這一比例大大高於英國(佔10.4%)、加拿大(佔6.8%)、澳大利亞(佔6.8%)和德國(佔6.6%)。此外，在“第一選擇”中排名前5的國家中，母語爲英語的國家佔了四席。出國留學目的地“第二選擇”中，加拿大、英國受到了留學生的廣泛青睞。
出國前，留學生最擔心“語言”、“融入國外當地的文化”和“與外國學生的溝通”中可能遇到的困難。
課外閱讀2
1. Hold a sleepover party on the first day. Invite yourfriends and classmates. Now celebrate the end of asemester's schoolwork! 在好友家過夜，一起慶祝假期的到來!
2. Chess teaches you how to think and plan. Get a parent to teach you how to play. If you're nota beginner, try to learn some new moves. 學下國際象棋，思考又補腦。
3. If you're not happy with the ending of the last Harry Potter book, write a new one and send itto J. K. Rowling. Maybe she'll send you a reply. 如果你對哈里波特的結局耿耿於懷，不妨寫下自己的期待，然後寄給作者羅琳。
4. Study food and find out what is good for your mum and dad. Cook a healthy breakfast foryour parents. 給父母做頓健康早餐。
5. Do you like science and history? Visit a museum. Take a notebook and pen with you. Howmuch can you learn? 參觀博物館增長見聞。
6. Are there any crossroads near you that can be improved? Can people cross the road beforethe light changes? Report problems to government offices through hotlines or emails. 留意路面交通狀況，把你發現的問題向政府彙報。
7. How much does your family plan to spend during the Spring Festival? Try to make a budgetfor your family. Help your parents with the festival shopping. 給父母做份春節開銷預算，做個家庭理財好助手。
8. Which is your dream foreign city? Find the cheapest, shortest way to get there. 享受一段異國之旅。
9. Write down the temperatures for two weeks. Try to find the temperature records for tenyears ago and compare them. Is it getting warmer or colder? 記錄近期天氣狀況，並和10前的數據進行對比，總結氣候變化的趨勢。
10. Did you miss some good movies because you were busy doing schoolwork? Catch up now. You can laugh, enjoy yourselves and learn at the same time. 緊張的學業一定讓你錯過了不少優秀電影，快快找補回來吧。
11. Which Olympic events do the Chinese pay closest attention to? Do a survey of different agegroups. How do they like different events? 中國人更喜歡什麼奧運項目?不妨分年齡段做個調查問卷。
12. Can you manage life when you're home alone? Are electrical appliances a big problem foryou? Learn how to use them with the help of Mom and Dad. 在父母的幫助下學會使用家裏的電器。
13. Get up early and look at the sky. Can you see the morning star from the balcony ? 晨起仰望天空，你能看到啓明星嗎?
14. Perhaps you don't know which books to read this holiday. Why not check out Teens' picksfor some ideas? 參考書籍排行榜選擇幾本好書。
15. How many animals are endangered in China? Study at least one animal and find out why itis in trouble. 你知道中國有哪些瀕臨滅絕的動物嗎?深入研究一種動物，並試着找出原因。
16. Make your own lantern for the Lantern festival. You don't have to make it verycomplicated. Why not just use a cola bottle and a candle? 自己動手爲元宵節做盞燈籠。利用可樂罐和蠟燭就是個不錯的創意呢。
17. Everyone should do his or her part to protect the environment. Tell your environmentallyfriendly ideas to the people around you. You can start by saving water and electricity (電) athome. 宣傳環保觀念，從節水節電做起。
18. How do poets describe winter with English? Read some winter poems or write one yourself. 試着做回詩人，用英文來描繪美麗的冬天。
