阅读特训营(英文)

Talking Birch Bark 1 James Evans had a dream. He wanted to find a way to write down the languages spoken by the Indian peoples. 2 For years Evans lived in what is now Ontario,Canada. He worked with the Ojibwa Indians there. He taught them many things. But he could not teach them to read Ojibwa. For no one had found a good way of writing down the words they spoke. 3 In 1840 Evans moved west. He went to teach the Indians at     

阅读理解四则(英文)

The Movie-goer Tom enjoyed going to the movies. He especially liked seeing movies made from stories he had read in the books.He went to the movies at least once a week. He liked to sit in the same seat,but sometimes when the theater was full,this was not possible.He had to sit wherever there was an empty seat.     

The Traveller and the Waitress

A traveller hurried down to the hall of a hotel. He had only 15 minutes to get to the train statoin before the train started. Suddenly he remembered that he had left a bag in his room upstairs.     

Missing the Plane

Early one morning a man called for a taxi to take him to the airport, which was a couple of miles down the highway. He patiently waited for about thirty minutes, and called the taxi company again to say that cab had not arrived. This dispatcher assured the gentleman that it was on the way. However, several minutes later, he was still waiting. He had to call a third time, saying, "I need that taxi in a hurry. I have got to make that flight to the West Coast that is due to leave in thirty minutes."     

A Dentist

Mr Baker was a strong man. He was a good footballplayer and spent a lot of time on the game when hestudied in a medical callege (医学院). But he was hurtonce when he was playing football with his friends. Hisright leg was broken in the accident and he couldn't playany longer. He was sorry for it and liked to watch thegame. Now the young man worked in a hospital. He was agood dentist (牙医) and many patients asked him forhelp. He was always busy and had little time to watchthe matches. He had to watch them on TV at home in     

活水

A Tofalar Tale托发拉尔传说 This happened a long,long time ago.when the cedar.the fir,and the pine still had needles that yellowed and dropped in the fall instead of staying green all winter. Once in those olden times a TofaJar went out into the woods to hunt. He walked and walked.and he came farther than any hunter had ever dared to go.He saw a     

Who Stole Your Pig?

Mr King had a small piece of farm at the foot of the hill. He worked hard but the weather was sometimes wet andsometimes dry. And he was often worried about food and clothes. So he built a pigsty.behind his house. When he cameback from his field,he looked after his pigs. Christmas was coming. Mr King hadn't enough money to buy some presents for his children. He had to kill a fatpig and hung it up for the night. The next morning, when he was going to take it to the market, he couldn't find it. He     

Merry Widows

Mr Brown was at the theatre.He had got his ticket at the lastmoment,so he had not been able to choose his seat.He now foundthat he was in the middle of a group of American ladies,some of themmiddle-aged and some quite old.They obviously all knew each otherwell,as before the curtain went up on the play they had come to see,     

完形填空齐齐看

(A) Yesterday evening,when I went to town 1my mother,we met a strange old man. It was raining 2and we had no umbrella.We were trying to3a taxi when he came up to us.He was carrying a nice umbrella and he said that he would give 4for only a pound.He had forgotten his wallet.He said he needed taxi to go back home.My mother didn't believe what he had said at first,and5 him a lot of questions.But she finally believed the man and gave him the pound.She was happy to6 a good umbrella for so little.However,the old man didn't get into a taxi.We walked7 him and found he went into a pub and bought himself a glass of 8with the pound.After he drank it,he 9~his hat and took up one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one.     

A Goose With Only One Leg（初三适用）

Once there was a clever farmer. Though he was poor,he decided one day to take a roast goose(烧鹅) to the king as a present. He had not had much that day, and soon the smell of the roast goose became too much for him as he carried it to the king, so he ate one of its legs.     

I''''m Just the Poor Silkworm

Mr Clark lived in a small village.He had a few pieces of land at thefoot of a mountain.He worked hard and got some money. His wife diedand left a daughter to him.The girl’s name was Linda.She was clever andgood at her lessons. Mr Clark liked her very much and tried his best tosatisfy(使满意)her.He thought he was poor just because he had littleknowledge. So he sent her to a middle school in the town after she had     

神啊,救救我!(英文)

Yesterday afternoon John and I were walking along a road where we heard someone shout “Help!Help!”He was in a lake,about a hundred feet from the shore.There was a small boat nearby.We knew immediately what happened. He had fallen out of the boat and could not swim good enough to reach it or to get to the shore.As we ran toward the lake I     

Fighting Sharks

Doctor John Perry decided it was time to go home. It had been a perfect (完 美 的 ) day-a day alone, the first such day in many years. H e had filled his bag with all sorts of sea shells (贝 壳 ), enough to study for months. The island had been a goodplace to find shells. But now the sun was going down.H e m ust leave before it got dark. He picked up his bag of shells and walked towardthe edge of the island.H e came to the sand reef(暗 礁 ,沙 洲 )that led from the island to shore.He stopped…     

The Rescue

Joe Langton worked at the Thorby paint factory,but he did not likehis job as an electrician.His main interest in life was playing and wat-ching football.On several occasions he had gone to watch a matchinstead ofgoing to work~2.He used to tell the manager that he hadbeen ill.The manager suspected that Joe was lying,as it was usuallya Saturday when Joe was ill.He threatened to dismiss him if he everdiscovered that he had been absent without a good reason.     

幽默故事(英文)

(A) Nasreddin had a shed (棚屋) behind his house. It had no lights in it. One night he went out to the shed to get his ladder, and lost his ring there. He left the ladder, went out into the street and began to look around.     

Drama at the Theatre

Jane went to the theatre on her birthday with her sister and brother-in-law.It was a historical play,set in the eighteenth ceutury,so allthe actors were wearing costumes of the period.The first act was quiteexciting.It was about a gipsy who had hypnotic powers.At firsthe had used these powers to help people who were ill,but now he wasusing them for the sake of money.He had hypnotized a nobleman and     

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Doctor Jim Bruce was on night duty when the hospital received an urgent call.A doctor was needed at once to attend a birth.Jim was given a sheet of paper withthe address.Without delay,he hurried to his car and set off for the house,whichwas about ten minutes'drive from the hospital.He had been driving for about fiveminutes when his car broke down.Jim tried to start the engine again,but nothinghe did had any effect.He gave up trying and set off walking.     

贪婪的人(英文)

Mr Read lived in a town by the sea.He has a few shops in the centerthere.He managed(管理)them carefully and got a lot of money.He was veryrich but he didn’t think he was the richest in the town.So he tried to get moremoney.Once Mr Read was asked to dinner.He heard there was a circustrope(马戏团)in the town which had nothing strange except a five–legged(五条腿的)cow.But people were interested in it and most of them went to see it.On his way home,Mr Read heard an old woman saying there liv…     

A "Good" Shot

Mr Richards was quite good at shooting with a rifle, hadtaken part in several competitions in his small town.He had neveractually won a prize,but each time he had done well,and once he hadcome fourth. Then he had to go to a big city on business for a month,and as he hadnothing much to do in the evenings there,he joined the local rifle club,     

老鼠开会

正[英语原文]Long ago, there was a big cat in the house.He caught many mice while they were stealing food.One day the mice had a meeting to talk about the way to deal with their common enemy.Some said this, and some said that. At last a young mouse got up, and said that he had a good idea.