英文版读书报告范文doc

英文版读书报告范文

大学英语读书报告格式

Reading Report

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英文读书报告(BOOK REPORT)的格式

1. Introductory Paragraph

The first sentence should state for which instructor and class the book-report is being written.

The second sentence should state the title of the book and the author's name.

The third sentence should tell how many pages the book has and the name of the publisher.

The fourth sentence can state basic bibliographic information about the book.

Bibliographic information means not only the author and title but also what company published the book, what year it was published in and any other relevant information such as the edition and if the book has been translated, simplified or abridged. (see

copyright page and the back of the title page.) The next sentence should state the reason(s) you decided to read this book. Why did you choose this particular book? Typical reasons might be:

o You like the author.

o You like this type of book ( mystery, western, adventure or romance, etc.). o Someone recommended the book to you.

o It was on a required reading list.

o You liked the cover.

These reasons do not have to be complex. Most people choose the books they read because they like the author or somebody recommended it to them. If you chose the book because you like the author, then state why you like that author.

An optional sentence can be used if the cover (back cover) of the book gives you any additional information then add a sentence with that information.

o Was the book a best seller?

o Are there X million copies in print?

o Did it win any major awards?

2. Main Character(s) Paragraph

The first sentence of this paragraph should state who the main character or characters of the book are, and why they are important. Refer to this person or these persons as the Main Character or Main Characters.

You will need at least a complex sentence for this, and probably more than one sentence.

3. Other Characters Paragraph

You should compose at least one sentence for each of the other prominent or important characters in the book. State the name of each of the other important characters, and the key role that each one plays in the book

Most books have five or six prominent characters besides the main character, so simply listing each one and stating their role in the book will give you a good sized paragraph.

4. Plot Summary Paragraph

This is perhaps the hardest paragraph to write in five sentences or so. If you have to write a bit more don't worry. Here are the main points to cover: o State the type of book (Mystery, Western, etc.).

o What place or country was the book set in?

o What time period was the book set in? (19th century, the present, ancient Rome, the 23rd century).

o Other physical locations which are important, like: ships, airplanes, houses, or buildings.

o Other notable attributes of the book. (Was it violent, scary, fast paced, etc.). o What is the main character trying to do?

o What is the outcome of the book?

o etc.

Make sure you cover all of the major parts of the plot. You might have to go back through the book, chapter by chapter, and make a few notes.

5. Personal Impressions and Conclusion Paragraph

Simply talk about what you liked or did not like about the book. Use this paragraph as your conclusion. It should summarize your overall impressions of the book and bring the report to a close.

o Start with a sentence that states that you are now writing a conclusion. (For example: "My final thoughts on 'A Fine Balance' are that it is a fascinating book but I am not entirely sure if I completely understood the thematic message of the book."

o Restate your reasons why you liked and/or disliked the book using different words.

o Write two sentences that talk about the books good points and weak points. o Write a sentence or two about what you learned from the book.

o Close with a sentence that states whether you would recommend the book to others.

Don't be afraid to give your own honest impressions of the book. After all, if you've read the book thoroughly, you are entitled to your own interpretation

of it.

Typically, your book report should not exceed two double-spaced pages, and it should be somewhere between 600 and 800 words in length.

Book report on Robinson Crusoe

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Catcher in the rye

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Catcher in the rye wrote a 16 years old boy,called Holden ,who was born in a rich middle class family .He escaped from school after being expelled in the fourth time .Then he went to the United States of New York city in one day and two whole story tells ahout his such a special experience. It not only vividly depicted a delicate restlessness of the middle class children’s depressed, lonely and cynical spirit world,and the psychological characteristics of adolescents’ a mass of contradictions, but also criticized the the hypocrisy in the adult society.

The beginning of the story from Pencey school.

Pencey middle school is very famous and has a great popularity in people's minds, however, the hero describes the pencey middle school follow as " Pencey is just as other schools,it can’t cultivate talents at all. And I don’t see any outstanding , intelligent and excellent students." Besides, he also said there are a plenty of thieves in pencey middle school. In holden's opinion, the most unforgivable thing in that school is fuilled with hypocritical people, especially the is very he sees ordinary parents,he just say hello to see the rich and powerful who drive a good car, he will talk with them enthusiasmly in a long time. Besides the disgusted Acle and Mr Rudd tower. The reason that Holden leaves pencey is not for he failed six subjects, but there are a lot hypocrite

if there are endless glory and splendor, but the entire campus is indifferent and almost to be a no human world.

There is no happiness in Holden's if he can feel happy, it is only a few people to give him. His reject good things, although it is a real concern. When his

history teacher Spencer tells him that his parents are the best felt very disgusted, he heartily hates the word "better". While it's hard for me to imagine, as a child,why he could think so ugly about the world? Though there are many ugly things in this world, too. He even thinks some tiny little things very hateful. When he sees a boy who is just like a guy in the street and get together with his girlfriend. If they laugh constantly, he thinks their laugh is simply but not somebody else playing a tune, he also thinks the man is just show off his a woman with a child is being moved and cry at the movies, he also considered a phony. He even boring to hate Christians. In Holden's eyes, all sorts of things is just a fake death of farce.

When Holden sees the ugly side of life, he tells his loneliness without any reservation. This kind of loneliness is not a simple sadness in the sense of solitude, but it is not a person can really understand him. Although he hates Mr Rudd tower, he would also like to dance in front of him. "I also need an audience and I also like to in front of others to show off myself" This is the voice of his heart, he need to hear, to

understand

and not a elegantly false face and the soft greetings. Can a person feel happy without the audiences? The bus drivers wants him to throw snowballs, and he said he will not threw to anyone, but the bus driver doesn’t believe. "People just don't believe your words" Holton said：“No one understands him. The meet between the old man and him is not happy, because their views are one the other hand, he is very desire to communicate with the old man. According to our today's understanding, if the man is not bosom friend, it isn’t necessary to explain. However he is too lonely, no one accompanies to him and talk to him,so he was very lonely. Thus under inevitable loneliness, he even thought to find prostitutes and he just wants to talk with her, but the final result is being deceived and has also been beat by the rascal Maurice.

In our opinion, holden isn't a good student, but he has innocence and kindness in his heart just like other children's. When he take a taxi for twice, he asked the driver that:”Where should shallow-water

ducks go in the central park when the lake is frozen ?”This is a funny concerned about ducks and he is also sympathetic. In Edmond hotel, when he saw a old man worked as the he thought it is very difficult to let an old man to do such a encountered bad suitcase in hand, the two sister eat only bread and coffee for breakfast, he even still hate to eat salted fish thought that when they didn't teach ,how can they take the old

straw basket to raise money in everywhere and will meet all kinds of situations, even attract by others despistion . From these things,we can conclude that he was very sympathetic. His brother and sister had a larger influence on holden's have dead for a long that day of Alli’s death , holden broken all of the windowsuntil his hands were bleeding. We can see that Alli ,as it were, the most important person in his is not a fake. it is undoubtedly a huge strike for holden on her death. She wanted to escape from this world and to find her own spiritual home. He said to Sally:”They can go to the forest to built their own cabin by themselves and leave away from the their relativest

come to visit them,they still don’t welcome.” In fact, Holden doesn’t hate this world, but hate something ugly. In Galveston, the poor James Kaiser was killed by a group of that group of boys are still world really has a dark side, and even today, although the state attaches great importance to the legal system, but there are still many people ignore the law under the various network of relationships. We don't have to worry about these, because frankly speaking, we can't change the circumstances .Jsut like holden can't change the time, sometimes, we’d better be ourselves.

Holden’s character is very complex, on the one hand, he himself has many problems, he criticizes people around him, but times displays as much phoniness, meanness and superficality as anyone else in the book.

On the other hand, his spiritual world is innocent, he hates all phony things while seeks sincerity and love and he himself is a person full of love. He loves children, because children from falling into the cliff referring to the adult world which he associates with hypocrisy and ugliness. He doesn’t want children to

step into the adult world; he wants them to stay innocent forever. That is why when he sees the word “fuck you” on the wall of Phoebe’s school he is so angry that he even wants to kill the guy who wrote it. His degeneration is in essence a kind of resistance, because he doesn’t want to wallow in mire with those guys he despises. “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody'saround--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”This paragraph is the most famous part from the to some extent,it reflects why the book is named by Catcher in the rye.

Holden was those of a very troubled person who deserved our sympathy more often than our praise. A

close look at what Holden did, nonetheless, revealed that he possessed very strong moral, compassionate instincts. Though Holden struggled against everything, even left away from the real world, he choose to adjusted himself to accept the real world to be a catcher in the real life. The Catcher in the Rye left many useful points to us for cogitation. Thus instead of treating the novel as a commentary by a innocent young man rebelling against an intensive world or as a study of a youth's moral growth, we regarded it as a guide that give us a hand to overcome the depression when we are stuck in it. We should learn to adjust ourself to the society.

With an acceleration in the rate of economic growth, college graduates have to fight for jobs in a highly competitive market. What we need is not only the high level of competence in our profession, but also the practical and sensible trait to realize the fact that we shouldn't give up until we have exhausted all the possibilities. Facing with the confuse problems, we should never compromise to them. We should accommodate

ourself to live in the world. And it is the faith that pulls Holden back into the who liv in that faith will never feel lonely or lose the way.

Benjamin Franklin: the Man who Invented America Countless legendary figures have achieved iconic status. However, Benjamin Franklin is the unique one. Renowned for his versatility and success in various domains, the Philadelphia printer, scientist, and statesman was a universal genius.

In Benjamin Franklin: Inventing America, Gaustad presents a fully rounded portrait of this endlessly fascinating human being. Extensively researched and footnoted, this one-volume biography reveals how he shaped up his multiple talents, as well as the strength that drove him on.

Franklin was not blessed as a child. He was the son of a soap maker, and also the 17th child of the family. Due to poverty, young Franklin had to drop out of school and work as an apprentice in a print shop to help support the family. The work was nothing but strenuous, yet it

did give the young apprentice access to books. Through exposing himself to the best of human wisdom by reading extensively, he gave himself an education. Meanwhile, his industry paid off handsomely. At age 24, Franklin was already one of the wealthiest publishers in Philadelphia.

But Franklin didn’t stop as a popular publisher. At age 40, intrigued by the phenomenon of electricity, Franklin was firm that the subject needed a more systematic investigation. To prove the resemblance between lightening and electricity, he conducted his famous “kite experiment” in a storm. No experiment gave Franklin greater acclaim, either home or abroad. Several years later, Franklin put all these research into practical application by inventing the lightening rod, which made him irreplaceable in the history of modern science. Later, Franklin’s inventiveness went on. Interestingly, he never asked for any patents. As he wrote in his Autobiography, “We should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this should be done freely and generously.” At age 50, Franklin stepped into politics. Having seen the

liberty, equality, wealth and happiness of his people deprived by the colonials, he encouraged his fellow Americans to fight against tyranny and protect their rights. He took up his favorite weapon, the pen, to explain carefully and coolly why America should not be directly taxed by the British Parliament. Gradually, Franklin became the one of the strongest voices for the interest of the colonies. Thanks to his courage and leadership, the colonies were eventually brought together, and a new nation started to emerge. Franklin accepted every duty thrust upon him as a faithful statesman. In 1776, the 71 year-old Franklin helped write the Declaration of Independence. The same year, he sailed to France to secure

France’s support for America in the war against the British colonialists. In 1787, Franklin took the job to draft Constitution of the United States of America, with a great many accomplishments already behind him.

Through the detailed life stories of Benjamin Franklin, the mystery of how he became a universal

genius was gradually unraveled.

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Book reports can help learners improve their reading comprehension and enhance their ability to analyze the story and the characters. Generally speaking, a book report is usually composed of three major parts. They are:

information about the writer (his name, the books he has published, the years of his birth and death, the publisher of the book)

a summary of the book (the story and main characters)

some comments on the book (personal interpretation of the meaning of the book)

When giving the information about the writer, the learner writer should include some historical and social background to which the book is related. To make things clear, the learner writer should read some reference materials, such as biographies of the writer and histories of the period in which the book was

written.

A book report should contain a summary of the book under discussion. The summary should be concise, clear and easy to understand. The learner writer should make sure that the summary be subjective and center on the major theme of the book. As for the tense of the book report, it depends on the subject matter of the book. If it is a novel or a play or a science fiction, the present tense is more appropriate while the past tense is required for nonfiction such as history books.

The third part and also the most important part of a book report is the comment. In this part, the learner writer's job is to evaluate the book according to his or her own personal interpretation and discuss the merits (优点) and demerits (缺点) of the book, the social and/or historical significance of the book. If the learner writer is competent enough to discuss the writing style of the author, he or she should feel free to do so.

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How to write a book report?

Book reports may be required by teachers who want to know whether their students have read the books assigned and how well they understand those books. If they are not required, students may as well write one or two for themselves, for writing book reports helps students to improve their reading comprehension and their ability to analyze and evaluate books. Moreover, it is very good practice.

Generally speaking, a book report consists of the following three main parts: information about the author and his times, a summary of the book, and comments on it.

A brief account of the author’s life should be given together with a description of his times. The latter should include the circumstances that led to the writing of the book under discussion and the historical and social background related to the content of the book. To make these things clear, the writer perhaps needs to read some reference material, such as biographies of the author and histories of the period described in

the book.

A summary should be self-contained, clear, and easy to understand. Above all, it should be objective. Comments on and criticisms of the book should not be mixed with the summary; they can be left to the third part. The summary of a novel or a play is usually written in the present tense, while that of nonfiction, in the tense of the original work: for

example, the past tense should be used for a history, and the present for a scientific work.

Comments on and evaluation of the book form the third and most important part of a book report. In this part the writer expresses his or her own views on the book, names its merits and demerits, and discusses its relevance to the present time. The discussion should of course center on the content of the book, but the author’s style and techniques of presentation, if interesting, can also be touched upon.

How to write a summary?

A summary is a brief restatement of the essential