精编英语阅读理解短文50篇

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精编英语阅读理解短文

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Passage 1.I don’t think so

Jack is a good boy but he doesn’t like to use his head. He

often says something withou makes others unhappy.

Mr. Black teaches math in a school. He’s old now and he likes

the Friday Mr. B

lack doesn’t go to work, because

he’s ill in a hospital. And Jack’s mother will see him after

dinner. “I want to be there with you.” says Jack.

“You’re a rude boy. I can’t take you there.’’ says his

mother. “Don’t worry, mum. I won’t do that again. Plea

se

believe me. ” says Jack. In the hospital, Jack says nothing at

first. When they’re leaving , he says to Mr. Black, “You look fine.

The doctor says you’re going to

die, but I don’t think so. ”

Passage days in a week

There are about fifty-two weeks in a year. And there are seven days

in each week. The first day of a week is Sunday. The other days of a

week between Sunday and Saturday are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Thursday and Friday. Monday is the second day, Tuesday is the third

day, Wednesday is the fourth day, Thursday is the fifth day, and Friday

is the sixth day. What’s the last day? Do you know?

Passage special Friend

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I have a friend in the U.S. His name is Don Adams. I know him very

well, but I have never met him. We write to each other all the time. My

letters are very short. It is still hard for me to write in English. I

received a letter from Don yesterday. It makes me very happy. He is

coming to my country for a visit next summer. We are going to see each

other for the first time.

Passage 4.A Day in My Life

My family lives on this street. In the morning, my father goes to

work and all the children go to school. My mother takes us to school

everyday. She does the housework. She always has her lunch at home, and

sees her friends in the

afternoon. In the evening all the children come home from school.

They always get home early. My father goes home from work and he is

often late. After supper my two brothers and I do our homework. We go to

bed at ten.

Passage 5. The Sea

What do know about the sea? Some people have seen it but others

haven’t. The sea looks beautiful on a

fine sunny day and it can be very tough when there is a strong wind.

What other things do you know about it? Of course, the sea is very large.

In the world there is more sea than land. If you have swum in the sea,

you know that the sea is salty. Rivers carry salt from the land into the

sea. Some places of the sea are saltier than the other places. Do you

know the Dead Sea? It is so salty that you can’t sink when

you are in

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the water! And fish cannot live in it!

Passage 6.A Good Young Pioneer

Li Hua is a Yong Pioneer. He is going to the park. Now he

is waiting for a bus. Suddenly he finds a watch

on the ground. He asks some people, “Whose watch is

it?” But the watch isn’t theirs. So he gives the watch to

a policeman.

Now Li Hua gets on the bus. He is sitting near the window. An old

woman gets on the bus. She has no seat. So he stands up and says, “Here

is a seat for you, Granny.

Please sit here”

Passage horse

There are all kinds of horses in the world. But one of them you

can’t ride. It doesn’t live on land, but in the sea. It looks like the

head of horse. So the people call it sea horse. In fact, the sea horse

is a small fish. It likes to live in warm water. A sea horse stands up

in the water when it swims.

Father horse carries the eggs to keep them safe in its pouch. When

the eggs are hatched, the baby horses swim away.

Passage 8.A Cat and a Bird

There are three trees near the house. There is a big tree, and two

small trees.

In the big tree there is a bird. Can the bird sing? Yes, it can.

What’s under the big tree? It’s a cat.

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“I want some food,” thinks the cat. “Bird, my good friend,

Come here! It’s time to play games” says the cat.

“No today, thank you!” says the bird, “You can’t catch me!

Goodbye!” Look! The bird is flying!

Passage

Air is all around us. It is around us as we walk and play. From the

time we were born air is around us on every side. When we sit down, it

is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air.

We can live without food or water for a few days, but we cannot live for

more than a few minutes without air. We take in air. When we are working

or running we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air. We

live in air, but we cannot see it. We can only feel it when it is moving.

Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way.

Hold an open book in front of your face, close it quickly. What can you

feel? What you feel is air.

Passage

There are many clocks in the Brown’s house. They are in

different rooms.A big clock stands in a corner of the sitting room.

It is a very, very old clock, but it still keeps good time. Mr. Brown

winds it once a week.

Passage11. Swimming

Swimming is a good sport. It’s popular. People like swimming

because the water makes people feel cool. But if they swim in a

wrong place, it is very dangerous. These years, some people died when

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they were enjoying themselves in water and most of them were students.

Summer holiday will be there again. I want to give you some advice.

First, don’t get into

the water when you are alone. Second, don’t get into the

water if there is a No swimming sign. Third, you should be careful

in the water. If you

remember these, swimming will be safe and it’s

good for your health.

Passage 12.A missing tiger

We used to have a cat called Tiger. He was a beautiful tabby with a

great deal of character. He was a natural hunter, and very soon no mouse

dared to show its face in our house. Unfortunately Tiger also used to

catch a lot of birds and this made him very unpopular with some of the

neighbors. Onday day, just after his second birthday, Tiger disappeared.

Perhaps he was run over by a car, for at that time we lived near a busy

street. Although we offered a reward, we never discovered what had

happened to him and we never saw him again.

Passage

Jim gets up at 6:30. His home is near his school. He leaves home at

7:30. They begin class at 8:00. He has lunch at home. After lunch he

plays games with his classmates, in the afternoon, Jim has three classes.

He leaves school at 4:30.

Passage 14.A Chinese Boy

I’m a Chinese boy. My name is Chen Dong. I am twelve. I have two

sisters. My sisters and I are all students. My father is a teacher. He

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is a Chinese teacher. He teaches in No. 19 Middle School. My mother is a

teacher, too. She teaches English in the No. 11 Middle School.

Passage ’s Family

A picture is on my desk. This is a picture of Jim’s family.

The

man is Jim’s father. A woman is behind Jim. She is his mother.

They are teachers. A girl is in the picture, too. She is Jim’s sister.

Her name is Kate Green. Jim and his sister are in the same school. But

they aren’t in the same grade. They look like thei

r mother. They are

English.

Passage House

Our home is near the school. We have a house. It is a good house.

The house has three rooms. One is a living room. The other two are

bedrooms. In the living room there is a table and six chairs. There are

some flowers on the table. There is a garden in front of the house.

Our house isn’t big, but we like it.

Monitor

This is Lin. She is from Beijing. She studies very hard.

In class she can answer the teacher’s questions

very quickly. Lin loves her classmates and often helps them with

their lessons. Everybody says she is a very good monitor.

Passage bedroom

This is my bed room. There are two windows in it. Near the window

there are some red flowers. A map of China is on the wall. You can see

four shoes and a basketball under my bed. There are trousers and a coat

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on the bed. Many schoolbooks are on my desk. And there are three lights

in my bedroom. One is on my desk, and the other two are near my bed.

Passage 19.A Piece of meat

A dog has a large piece of meat in his mouth. Near the water he

looks down and sees himself in the water. He thinks it is another dog.

That dog has also a large piece of meat in his mouth. He says to himself,

“I want to

get his meat. Then I can have two pieces.

” He opens

his mouth to bark and his meat goes down into the water.

Passage 20. Our school

This is our school. There are many classrooms in it. There are eight

hundred students and sixty

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nine

teachers in our school. There are many trees and flowers in it. All

the teachers and students like our school very much.

We come to school at seven. We have four classes in the morning and

two in the afternoon.

Our classroom is big and clean. We have lessons here. We do our

homework at home.

All the students study hard.

Passage 21.A Holiday

It’s fine today. Tom and his family are at a park. The man in white

is his father. He is standing by the lake and looking at the boats. The

woman in blue is his mother. She is sitting on the grass. Beside his

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mother is Alice, his sister. She is eating cake. The park is big, and

there are many trees and flowers in

it. They are having a good time.

Passage Old Mouse

An old woman has a cat. The cat is now very old. She cannot run fast,

and she cannot bite. One day the old cat sees a mouse. she jumps and

catches the mouse. But she cannot bite it. So the mouse gets out of her

mouth and runs away.

Then the old woman is very angry because the cat cannot kill the

mouse. She begins to beat the cat. The cat says to her, “Don’t

beat me.

Be friendly

to me. When I was young, I did good work for you.”

Passage 23.A hungry fox

A hungry fox is from a forest. He arrives at a village. He wants to

find some food. He comes to a house and pulls the door. But it locked.

He sees there is a

hen inside. “Hello I’ll come to visit you,” he

tells the hen. “I know

that you are ill. Come out and let me take your temperature.”

“Thank you,” says the hen. “I have a headache.

But if I come out, you will kill me.”

Passage Each Other

Look! Kate is flying a bird kite. Oh, her kite is in the tree. And

it is broken. She can’t climb up the tree.

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Li Lei and Jim are coming here. Li Lei is helping her. He is getting

the kite from the tree. But he can’t get down.

Jim is helping Li Lei. Li Lei is jumping to the wall. They are

getting down from the wall. Kate, Jim, and Li Lei are mending the kite

under the tree. They are good friends.

Passage Weather

The weather in Shanghai is not always good. In winter it

is often cold and wet. In summer it is very hot. Spring is very

beautiful. It is not very cold, but we have a lot of rain in spring.

Autumn is the best season. The days are clear and dry and it is sunny

and warm all the time. The weather in Shanghai is sometimes warmer than

in Beijing. But in summer it is cooler in Beijing than in Shanghai.

Passage ’s Happening?

It is in autumn. A young man comes to a forest. He’s walking

beside the forest. On his right is a river. On his left is the

forest. Suddenly he sees two green eyes looking at him from the trees. A

tiger is getting ready to jump on him. What does he do? He must jump

into the river. In the river there is a big crocodile. Its mouth is very

big. The young man closes his eyes. The tiger jumps over him. And the

young man opens his eyes. Now the tiger is in the mouth of the crocodile.

Passage oos

There are many kangaroos in Australia and not only in zoos. You can

see them everywhere outside of the cities and towns. When they want to

have a rest on their tails, kangaroos are also very good at looking

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after their babies. mother kangaroos keep their babies safe in their

pockets.

Passage 28.A Pair of Shoes

One day an old man is taking the train to his hometown .One of his

shoes falls onto the ground, but the train starts. He cannot pick it up,

then he takes off the other and throws it near the fallen shoe. A boy

beside him asks him, “Why do you do that?” He answers, “If a man

picks them up, he may get a pair of shoes.”

Passage 29. We get the Wrong car!

One day my wife and I go shopping at a shop. We stop the car in

front of the shop. An hour later we come back to the car with many

things. But we can not open the car door. “Oh, dear,” says my wife.

“What shall we do?” “Let’s ask that

policeman!” The policeman comes to help

us. A few minutes later, he

gets the door open. Just at that moment a man comes up and shouts, “Why

are you opening my car door?”We look

at the number of the car and our faces turn red.

Passage 30. Thank you.

Many people like to say “Thank you” when ot

hers

help them or say something kind to them. It is a very good habit.

You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt

on the table, when someone is walking ahead of you keeps the door

open for you, when someone says you have done your work well, or you

have bought something nice or your city is very beautiful. Thank you is

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