导读：本篇为学生整理了一则英语阅读故事，分享给学生进行学习，一年级学生最重要就是培养好一个学习习惯和学习的兴趣，因此在学习中家长不要给学生太严格的要求，积极引导学生进行学习就可以了。同时学生在阅读的过程中，家长也可以让孩子摘抄其中的好词好句，这样既达到了加强记忆的效果，又能够帮助学生写好英语单词，在将来的考试中能够让阅卷老师也耳目一新。

　　The peasant and the apple-tree

　　A Peasant had an Apple-tree growing in his garden, which bore no fruit, but merely served to provide a shelter from the heat for the sparrows and grasshoppers which sat and chirped in its branches. Disappointed at its barrenness he determined to cut it sparrows and the grasshoppers saw what he was about to do, they begged him to spare it, www.xiaogushi8.com and said to him, “If you destroy the tree we shall have to seek shelter elsewhere, and you will no longer have our merry chirping to enliven your work in the garden.” He ,however, refused to listen to them, and set to work with a will to inside and contained a swarm of bees and a large store of honey. Delighted with his find he threw down his axe, saying, “The old tree is worth keeping after all.”

　　Utility is most men’s test of worth.

　　【译文】

　　农夫和苹果树

　　有一个农夫，他的园子里有一棵苹果树，这棵树并不茂盛，只能为麻雀和蝉提供一个可栖息的地方，让他们坐在枝桠上歇息和喋喋不休地 。农夫认为这棵树没有什么大用处，决定把它砍掉，于是便拿起斧头走过去砍起树来。然而，那些蝉和麻雀看到农夫的行为后，便请求农夫留下这棵树，并且对他说：“如果你砍掉这棵树，我们还得另外再找一个窝，而你也不会在园子里干活时听到我们为你鼓劲的欢快歌声了。”农夫没理睬他们，继续拿起斧头砍起这棵树，几斧下去之后，树上出现一个洞，他发现树洞里有蜂蜜和蜂巢。他高兴地连忙抛下斧头，说：“这棵树还真是值得保留下来。”

　　寓意：实用性是大多数人对价值的检验。

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