求适合高一学生背诵的英语美文啊。。 一篇就行，最好附有翻译， 谢谢了！。。

求适合高一学生背诵的英语美文啊。。 一篇就行，最好附有翻译， 谢谢了！。。

你的人生是什么味道的咖啡，并不取决于装咖啡的杯子 经典英语哲理美文欣赏之上帝的咖啡God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversationsoon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define,nor change the quality of Life we live......余下全文>>