英语四级美文：The Child’s Guardian Angel Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born.So> And you will feel your angel’s love and be happy.”“And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me,”the child continued,“if I don’t know the language that men talk?”God patted him> At that moment there was much peace in Heaven,but voices from earth could already be heard.The child knew he had to start on his journey very soon.He asked God one more question, softly,“Oh God, if I am about to leave now,please tell me my angel’s name.”God touched the child on the shoulder and answered,“Your angel’s name is not hard to remember.You will simply call her Mommy.”
英语四级美文：What is a Typical American Film?
Is there such a thing as a typical American film?It is true that there are many features that mark a movie as American,but perhaps the most essential feature is the theme of the loner-hero.From the earliest days of silent films until the recent extravagant science fiction films,the American movie has concentrated> He wanders into a town and straightens out its troubles.Those troubles can be cattle rustlers or out-laws.Then the strong and independent hero fades off into the sunset alone.Americans like this image in their films because they are highly independent themselves,and individualism counts a great deal with them.An individual who is able to correct the evils of the world,or of a small town, is someone to admire.Even the gangster movie,a very popular form of the typical American film,usually has a hero.
Either he is a lawman out to catch the criminals or a gangster who suddenly sees the light and tries to go straight.During the violence?ridden period of Prohibition in the 1920s,it is natural that the gangster movie would grow in popularity.These films kept the same tone as the western —the bad cannot triumph!One good person can save the innocent.Recent science fiction films deal with the same themes.Against the forces of alien powers,people will fight to protect their ideals.Here, too, the action centers around a single individual,but now he or she must save the world.
英语四级美文：Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr
Caroline has known to me all my life.It was my privilege to see her out of hers.After my father’s death,to Mammy I came to represent the head of that family to which she had given a half century of fidelity and devotion.But the relationship between us never became that of master and servant.She still remained> She was an active and constant percept for decent behaviour.From her I learned to tell the truth,to refrain from waste,to be considerate of the weak and respectful to age,I saw fidelity to a family which was not hers,devotion and love for people she had not borne.She was born in bondage and with a dark skin and most of her early maturity she was passed in a dark and tragic time for the land of her birth.She went through vicissitudes which she had not caused;she assumed cares and grieves which were not even her cares and grieves.
She was paid wages for this,but pay is still just money.And she never received very much of that,so that she never laid up anything of this world’s goods.Yet she accepted that too, without cavil or calculation or complaint,so that by that very failure she earned the gratitude and affection of the family she had given the fidelity and devotion upon,and gained the grief and regret of the aliens who loved and lost her.She was born and lived and served,and died and now is mourned;if there is a heaven, she has gone there.
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