名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 See the Miracle 学案-高三英语二轮复习培优.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 See the Miracle 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选See the Miracle 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 亲情 五星 1144 【文章梗概】今年夏天，我和家人在斐济的一个私人小岛上度假。然而，小女儿不幸从离地20英尺的阳台坠落，我怅然若失，百感交集，日复一日地责备自己怎样才能避免事故的发生。后来我老师的话点醒了我：不要执念过往，不再和旧事较劲。不管怎样，你见证了奇迹，你小女儿经历了奇迹，她就是奇迹。拥抱生命中的奇迹时刻，心怀感恩，拥有最纯粹的快乐。 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein It happened in an instant. One small instant held everything — my life, her life, my family — in its clenched fists. Beads broke in a rush of terror across my forehead as I bolted around the deck and down the stairs. My legs were moving but I couldn’t feel them, couldn’t register anything, or feel anything except for the fear closing in. All I wanted to know in that moment was that my daughter Jolie was alive. It was one of those events that happened in a split-second and yet it held the potential to shift everything in my life. How I would wake up in the morning. How I would fall asleep at night. How I would kiss my two daughters as I tucked them in and watched them turn their heads to sleep. My family and I were vacationing on a small private island in Fiji this past summer. When I say small, I mean so small that there is no way to get on or off the island unless it is pre-arranged. We were staying with friends in a beautiful house with a wrap-around balcony. The house was so high up that the drop below the balcony was nearly twenty feet. The island has this amazing energy that I find hard to put into words. It’s occupied by the indigenous people of Fiji, most of them whom have never left the island. Fiji is their home and they’re very connected to the earth, the community, and each other. There were seven or eight local Fijians who worked at the house we stayed in as caretakers and helpers. It was easy to connect with them. They were warm and engaging and had an instinct for getting to know the hearts of people. At one point, the wom