备考ACT阅读一定要读的英文短篇小说

　　为了方便同学们的ACT阅读备考，课窝考试网小编为大家收集整理了ACT经典英文短篇小说，供大家学习参考，希望能为同学们的考试提供帮助。

　　《需求》

　　Wants

　　by 格蕾丝·佩雷

　　Grace Paley

　　内容简介

　　这篇短篇小说非常简短，讲述了一个女人在图书馆门口与前夫短暂邂逅，两人交谈了彼此对那段婚姻的看法。之后，女人陷入沉思，并做了一个决定。

　　The story is so short that the experience of reading it is akin to a flashback to a forgotten memory or a dream about a stranger’s conversation overheard in passing.

　　这个故事非常短，阅读体验像极了对一段遗忘记忆的瞬间闪回，或是梦境中重现偶然听见的陌生人的对话。

　　精彩选段

　　I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library.

　　我在街上看见前夫。我当时正坐在新图书馆的台阶上。

　　Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified.

　　你好，我的人生，我说。我们有过一段27年的婚姻，所以我觉得这样叫他很合理。

　　He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

　　他说，什么?什么人生?不是我的人生。

　　《熟路》

　　A Worn Path

　　by 尤多拉·韦尔蒂

　　Eudora Welty

　　内容简介

　　Welty was a Pulitzer-winning author from the South, known for writing about southern life in America. The Atlantic published “A Worn Path” in 1941. It tells the story of an old woman walking a long distance from her home to the center of town.

　　韦尔蒂来自美国南部，作品以描写美国南部生活为人所熟知。1941年，《大西洋月刊》发表了她的作品《熟路》。作品讲述了一个年迈的妇人从家徒步远行到市中心的故事。

　　精彩选段

　　Phoenix heard the dogs fighting, and heard the man running and throwing sticks. She even heard a gunshot.

　　菲尼克斯听到狗打架的声音，听到那人跑动并抛掷木棍的声音，她甚至还听到了枪声。

　　But she was slowly bending forward by that time, further and further forward, the lids stretched down over her eyes, as if she were doing this in her sleep. Her chin was lowered almost to her knees. The yellow palm of her hand came out from the fold of her apron. Her fingers slid down and along the ground under the piece of money with the grace and care they would have in lifting an egg from under a setting hen. Then she slowly straightened up; she stood erect, and the nickel was in her apron pocket.

　　但在这个时间里，她一点一点缓慢弯下身来，眼皮耷拉着，像是在睡梦中。她的下巴几乎触到了膝盖。黄色的手掌从围裙褶里伸了出来。她的手指悄悄顺着地面摸到硬币底下，就像是从抱窝的母鸡身下取蛋似的，那么谨慎，那么从容。然后她慢慢直起腰来，直挺挺地站着，硬币早已装到了围裙口袋里。

　　A bird flew by. Her lips moved. 'God watching me the whole time. I come to stealing.'

　　一只小鸟飞过。她的嘴唇蠕动着。“上帝一直在瞧着我。我落到偷东西的地步了。”

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