準備出國留學的同學們應該都知道北美的課堂與國內(nèi)不同，北美大學的教授從來不會在課堂上照本宣科，他們會默認為學生已經(jīng)在課前完成了所有的閱讀任務(wù)，便開始直接進行引申的討論和知識應用的訓練，所以無論你在國外大學選擇主修哪一門專業(yè)，都會有大量的閱讀任務(wù)。這也要求學生在出國留學之前，就要提高自己的閱讀量和閱讀能力。比較好的辦法就是大量閱讀英文原版書籍。上海燎原國際高中David老師在美國有近十年的學習經(jīng)驗，為我們準備留學北美的學生們推薦了13本最適合也能快速提高學生閱讀能力的書籍：

1 、READ：老人與海The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952.

It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

2、READ：道林·格雷的畫像The Picture of Dorian Gra

by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine..

The longer and revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form in 1891 featured an aphoristic preface—a defence of the artist's rights and of art for art's sake—based in part on his press defences of the novel the previous year. The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own right, as a literary and artistic manifesto.

As literature of the 19th century, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an example of Gothic fiction with strong themes interpreted from Faust.

3、READ：坎特伯雷故事集The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late-fourteenth-century English poet

The Canterbury Tales is written in Middle English, which bears a close visual resemblance to the English written and spoken today. In contrast, Old English (the language of Beowulf, for example) can be read only in modern translation or by students of Old English.

4、READ：殺死一只知更鳥To Kill A Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Critical response to To Kill a Mockingbird was mixed: a number of critics found the narrative voice of a nine-year-old girl unconvincing and called the novel overly moralistic. Nevertheless, in the racially charged atmosphere of the early 1960s, the book became an enormous popular success, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and selling over fifteen million copies. Two years after the book’s publication,an Academy Award–winning film version of the novel, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, was produced.

5、READ：科學怪人Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein is written in the form of A frame story that starts with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister. It takes place at an unspecified time in the 18th century, as the letters' dates are given as "17—".

Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. At the same time, it is an early example of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story because, in contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays.

6、READ：華氏451度Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.

In a 1956 radio interview,Bradbury stated that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time about the threat of book burning in the United States.In later years, he stated his motivation for writing the book in more general terms. In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.

It has since won the Prometheus "Hall of Fame" Award in 1984 and a 1954 "Retro" Hugo Award, one of only four Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004.

7、READ：看得見風景的房間A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E.M.Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian eraEngland.Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivoryproduced an award-winning film adaptationin 1985.

The Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list of the100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).

8、READ：哈姆雷特Hamlet

by William Shakespear

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, and is ranked among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". The play likely was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime, and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. []It has inspired many other writers – from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch – and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella".

9、READ：第十二夜Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night is a comedyby William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as a boy) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio.

10、READ：仙后The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language and the origin of a verse form that came to be known as Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues, though it is primarily an allegorical work, and can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise of Queen Elizabeth I.

In Spenser's "Letter of the Authors" he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devises," and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline".

11、READ：西班牙悲劇The Spanish Tragedy

by Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedy, Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre , the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.

Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.)

12、READ：小王子Le Petit Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince is the fourth most-translated book in the world and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Translated into more than 250 languages and dialects (as well as Braille),selling nearly two million copies annually with sales totaling over 140 million copies worldwide,it has become one of the best-selling books ever published.

After the outbreak of the Second World WarSaint-Exupéry was exiled to North America. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth. An earlier memoir by the author had recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara Desert, and he is thought to have drawn on those same experiences in The Little Prince.

13、READ：玫瑰的名字The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery, in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. It was translated into English by William Weaverin 1983.

除了這13本書籍，David老師也向大家推薦了：Open Syllabus Explorer

這是一個擁有超過100萬門大學課程書籍的在線圖書數(shù)據(jù)庫，而且面向大眾。通過這個數(shù)據(jù)庫不僅可以了解到數(shù)目的基本信息，也可以了解到不同學校多余學生閱讀書籍的要求。

最后希望同學們都可以更高效和愉快的閱讀!

上海燎原雙語學校報名、校園參觀及了解招生動態(tài)，請： ，或通過下方報名通道登記。