“阅读理解”是体现英语教学大纲教学目的的一面“镜子”，是集语言习惯、语法、词汇、短语等基础知识为一体、综合考查考生初步运用英语能力的有效手段。自英语新中考以来，此类试题增加了阅读分量，扩大了选材范围。测试题型主要有“判断正误”、“选择正确答案”、“根据短文回答问题”、“根据短文完成句子或短文”等。测试的方向由时间、地点、姓名、身份、职业、动作、人物等一些细节问题，改为测试对全文整体意义的理解程度；由考查短文的表层现象改为考查对文章深层含意的理解和逻辑推理判断能力。这种实质上的变化对考生提出了更高的要求，稍有不慎，就会失分。下面我们将通过四组练习，来具体说明猜测词义、

阅读下列短文, 并做每篇后面的题目。从四个选项中,  选出能回答所提
问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。   
    On the evening of June 21, 1992,  a tall man with  brown  hair and blue
eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi'an with his
bicycle. The  hotel workers received him and telephoned th

Becky awoke to find the bright morning sun shining through her curtains（窗帘）．
As she rubbed（揉）her swollen（肿起的）eyes，last night's dreadful memory slowly returned．I don't even remember Mom and Dad coming home，Becky thought．
“Hi，honey，”Mom said w

Stonehenge（巨石阵）is a strange circle of very big stones in southern England．
It was built over a period of a thousand years，probably betwee

美国现代著名诗人兼画家依·依·卡明斯（e．e．Cummings 1894—1962）在诗歌的文字形式上进行了大胆尝试，构成了他与众不同的现代派诗歌风格，即突破传统诗歌的分行书写形式，别出心裁地加以排列，用书写形式上的视觉形象来辅助诗意的表达。
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英国人的两种不同休闲方式
British people are always fam ous for their conservative nature．Nevertheless，they also have some interesting ways to enjoy them selves．

云南省玉溪市阅读理解：
The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means（通讯设备）.Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dir

兰州市阅读理解A：
　　A lawyer,an artist and a musician got lost in the woods.At last they came to a farmer's house and asked if he could let them stay for the night.
“Sure,”the farmer said.“But I've got room for only two of you in the house.The other one will have to sleep in the

甘肃省兰州市阅读理解：
Look at the instructions on the bottle of the medicine and then choose the right answers.
John is twelve years old.He had a bad cold and coughed day and night.He went to see a doctor.The doctor gave him some cough medicine.
Cough Medicine

广西壮族自治区南宁市阅读理解C：
One evening in November, Dr. Berlin received a telephone call from Mrs. Green. “Please, Dr. Berlin, come to my house. I had 5,000 dollars on my desk and it is gone.”
Dr. Berlin arrived at Mrs.Green's house at eight o'clock First he asked Mrs. Green, “

By“dark side”I think you mean the side we never see from earth．We see only one side of the moon because of the moon's special movem ent．It is moving in such a way that it takes the same length of time for each once-around spin（自转）and for each trip around the earth．
The neat r

One day a dog，a horse and a sheep went to a beach．The horse and the sheep wanted to swim in the ocean（海洋）．The sheep said，“Do you want to swim with us？”
The dog thought a moment，then said，“No，thanks！I want to stay here and do stuff in the sand．”

Eggs are made from the inside out．That's how the hen gets everything into the shell（壳）！
Inside a hen's body，the yellow yolk（蛋黄）is made first． Next，the yolk slides into a special tube（管）inside the hen．There，clear liquid（液体）egg white（蛋清） is

In Vermont there lived a little boy named Billy who was always unlucky．Because of this he had no friends．His birthday was coming up， so his popular brother，Dan，gave Billy a“lucky charm（护身符）”．This“charm”was nothing more than a rock，but Billy never let go of it．
The next day at

How come you can heart hunder but not see lightning nor see dark gray clouds coming toward you？
By Emily Solomon
In a thunder storm（雷暴雨），we are used to seeing dark clouds with rain and lightning（闪电）followed by thunder ．When we do