备考ACT的中国学生,zui大的短板该是阅读速度了吧。相信一个有含金量的英文书单会对大家的阅读提升有帮助的。思拓国际给大家列出了给美国高中生推荐的读物列表,而且是分年级的。大家做参考吧:
9th Grade
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slaveby Frederick Douglass
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spy Glass, The Ruby on the Stone by Philip Pullman
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak by David Sierakowiak
• Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on the Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
• The Pigman by Paul Zindel
10th Grade
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary L. Blackwood
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
• Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esme Raji Codell
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Boy by Roald Dahl
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Miracle Worker by William Gibson
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Shakespeare Alive by Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland
• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Richard Peck
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
11th and 12th Grade
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
• Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
怎么样,美国的高中生是不是阅读量很大呢。要想取得ACT的阅读高分,是不是需要从小养成阅读原版小说的习惯呢。