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经典英语的励志美文 多阅读一些优美励志的英文美文,对于我们英语能力的提高也会有所帮助,下面内容由小编为大家分享经典英语的励志美文，一起来看看吧！ 篇一：A fib 小小的谎言　　I was six years old, my sister, Sally Kay, was a submissive three-year-old girl. For some reasons, I thought we needed to earn some money. I decided we should hire out as maids. We visited the neighbors, offering to clean houses for them for a quater cents. Reasonable as our offer was, there were no takers. But one neighbor telephoned my mother to let her know what Mary Alice and Sally Kay were doing. Mother had just hung up the phone when we came first into the back door into the kitchen of our apartement. Girls, mother asked, why were you two going around the neighborhood telling people you would clean their houses? Mother wasn#39;t angry with us. In fact, we learned afterwards she was amused that we had came up with such an idea. But, for some reason, we both denied having done any such thing. Shocked and terribly hurt that her dear little girls could be such boldfaced (厚颜无耻的) liars . Mother then told us that Mrs. Jones had just called and told her we had been to her house and said we would clean it for a quater cents . Faced with the truth, we admitted what we had done. Mother said we have fibed, we have not told the truth. She was sure that we knew better. She tried to explain why a fib (小谎) hurt, but she didn#39;t feel that we really understood. Years later, she told us that the lesson she came up with for trying to teach us to be truthful would probably have been found upon by child psychologists. The idea came to her in a flash, and a tender-hearted mother told us it was the most difficult lesson she ever taught us. It was a lesson we never forgot. After admonishing(警告，劝告) us, mother cheerfully begain preparing for lunch. As we monching on sandwhiches, she asked: Would you two like to go to see the movies this afternoon? Wow, would we ever? We wondered what movie would be playing. Mother said:The Matinee. Oh, fatastic！ We would be going to see The Matinee, would we lucky