同学们有在为英语发愁，可你不知道英语的学习是有方法可寻，沪江小编建议同学们多多阅读英语短文，这样不仅可以提高写作能力，还能提高英语阅读能力，对做阅读理解是很有帮助。如果做题慢的同学，更应该多读一些经典英语短文。

The Old Cat

An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.

Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."

【译文】

老猫

一位老妇有只猫，这只猫很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了东西，因为它年纪太大了。一天，老猫发现一只老鼠，它跳过去抓这只老鼠，然而，它咬不住这只老鼠。因此，老鼠从它的嘴边溜掉了，因为老猫咬不了它。

于是，老妇很生气，因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫，猫说：“不要打你的老仆人，我已经为你服务了很多年，而且还愿意为你效劳，但是，我实在太老了，对年纪大的不要这么无情，要记住老年人在年青时所做过的有益的事情。”

很多同学都喜欢看小说，好像看小说很流行一样，那是因为它很有趣，如果同学们想学好英语的话，不妨把看小说的这部分时间转换成看英语短文，一些英语短文也是相当有意思的，在娱乐的同时也提高了英语水平，岂不是一箭双雕，何乐而不为呢。