英语课外阅读新闻
提高英语的水平往往可以看一些英语的新闻和阅读，还有英语的电视剧和电影，这样可以很快的提高我们的英语口语，接下来小编给大家带来英语新闻，需要的同学们可以看一看。
课外阅读1
卢迪亚德·基普林，巴勃罗·毕加索，欧内斯特海明威，提到这些著名的艺术家和诗人，你第一个想到的是什么呢?是的，他们都是时代的巨人，还有呢?是的，他们都曾经在海外生活过。或许你还不清楚我说的意思，然而近来有专家通过实验指出在海外生活的人明显比其他人的创造力要强，并有较高的应变能力。
Living abroad gives you a creative edge
ANECDOTAL (轶事的，趣闻到)evidence has long held that creativity in artists and writers canbe associated with living in foreign parts. Rudyard Kipling(卢迪亚德·基普林), Pablo Picasso(巴勃罗·毕加索), Ernest Hemingway(欧内斯特海明威), Paul Gauguin(保罗·高更), SamuelBeckett(塞缪尔·贝克特) 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(《个性与社会心理杂志》), William Maddux of INSEAD, a business School in Fontainebleau, France(法国枫丹白露), 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(烛台) 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 (继续的，重复的)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(谈判代表) 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(马克达斯和加林斯基) identified and measuredpersonality traits(特点), 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: 中国学生海外留学情况
英国广播公司报道，中国留学生选择某一国家出国的原因呈现多样性，其中，留学国的“教学、科研质量”以及“学位的认可程度”成为广大中国出国留学生选择某一国家的最重要的原因。
美国依然是中国学生的首选留学目的地。超过半数的留学生将美国作为出国留学的“第一选择”(占51.8%)，这一比例大大高于英国(占10.4%)、加拿大(占6.8%)、澳大利亚(占6.8%)和德国(占6.6%)。此外，在“第一选择”中排名前5的国家中，母语为英语的国家占了四席。出国留学目的地“第二选择”中，加拿大、英国受到了留学生的广泛青睐。
出国前，留学生最担心“语言”、“融入国外当地的文化”和“与外国学生的沟通”中可能遇到的困难。
课外阅读2
1. Hold a sleepover party on the first day. Invite yourfriends and classmates. Now celebrate the end of asemester's schoolwork! 在好友家过夜，一起庆祝假期的到来!
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. 学下国际象棋，思考又补脑。
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. 如果你对哈里波特的结局耿耿于怀，不妨写下自己的期待，然后寄给作者罗琳。
4. Study food and find out what is good for your mum and dad. Cook a healthy breakfast foryour parents. 给父母做顿健康早餐。
5. Do you like science and history? Visit a museum. Take a notebook and pen with you. Howmuch can you learn? 参观博物馆增长见闻。
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. 留意路面交通状况，把你发现的问题向政府汇报。
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. 给父母做份春节开销预算，做个家庭理财好助手。
8. Which is your dream foreign city? Find the cheapest, shortest way to get there. 享受一段异国之旅。
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? 记录近期天气状况，并和10前的数据进行对比，总结气候变化的趋势。
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. 紧张的学业一定让你错过了不少优秀电影，快快找补回来吧。
11. Which Olympic events do the Chinese pay closest attention to? Do a survey of different agegroups. How do they like different events? 中国人更喜欢什么奥运项目?不妨分年龄段做个调查问卷。
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. 在父母的帮助下学会使用家里的电器。
13. Get up early and look at the sky. Can you see the morning star from the balcony ? 晨起仰望天空，你能看到启明星吗?
14. Perhaps you don't know which books to read this holiday. Why not check out Teens' picksfor some ideas? 参考书籍排行榜选择几本好书。
15. How many animals are endangered in China? Study at least one animal and find out why itis in trouble. 你知道中国有哪些濒临灭绝的动物吗?深入研究一种动物，并试着找出原因。
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? 自己动手为元宵节做盏灯笼。利用可乐罐和蜡烛就是个不错的创意呢。
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 (电) athome. 宣传环保观念，从节水节电做起。
18. How do poets describe winter with English? Read some winter poems or write one yourself. 试着做回诗人，用英文来描绘美丽的冬天。
