“纯英文名著分级阅读丛书”是一套精选的适合中学生阅读的世界经典名著，语言地道流畅，简约优美。每册图书分别由3～4位同学阅读，最后综合这些同学划出的生词，加以注释，从而极大地方便了读者阅读本丛书。这样完全从实践中来，根据英文单词量的分级，给相应英语水平的读者提供流利阅读纯英文的范本，具有非常强的实用性、针对性。本书是纯英文名著分级阅读丛书之老人与海，单词量为1000-1500个。

本书描写一个古巴渔民面对失败时的顽强拼搏精神，此书获得普利策奖。海明威的作品具有独特的风格，不仅文体简洁，而且语言生动明快，对美国文学界产生了很大影响。1954年海明威获诺贝尔文学奖。

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week.

It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

 "Santiago," the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up "I could go with you again. We've made some money. "

The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.

 "No," the old man said. "You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them. "

 "But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks. "

"I remember," the old man said. "I know you did not leave me because you doubted. "

 "It was papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him. "

"I know," the old man said. " It is quite normal. "

"He hasn't much faith. "

"No," the old man said. "But we have. Haven't we?"

"Yes," the boy said. "Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we'll take the stuff home. "P1-2