One day Billy walked down the street to post a letter for his mother. He did not see a letter box on the street. But he saw a basket that had a sign on it. The sign said: PUT LITTER IN THIS BASKET.
"I can read, "thought Billy,

Babies love chocolate—and sometimes they also eat the paper around it．My cat enjoys a meal of good，thick paper；old letters，for example．She doesn't like newspapers very much．
    Of course，the best paper comes from wood．Wood comes from trees，and trees are plants．Vegetables and fruit are plants too，and we eat a lot of th

The Red Cross exists in almost every country around the globe．The world Red Cross organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent，the Red Mogen David，the Sun，and the Red Lion．
    The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and wounded during a war started with Jean Henri Dunant．In 1859，he observed how peo

One day, I called my classmate, Liu Yu, to wish her a happy birthday.
"Hello?"said the man who answered the phone.
"Hello, may I speak to Liu Yu?"
"I am afraid yo

"We don't have rush hours any more, "said Charles M. McLean, who runs the nation's busiest road. "We have rush periods, and they keep getting longer and longer."
McLean was describing Chicago's 235 miles of expressway. But the same might be said about

It's eleven in the morning．Mr Li needn't go to work today．He knows English and is now looking through a list of TV programmes in today's newspaper．The list is as follows．
    Read it over and then do the exercises．
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We always wonder about famous people．What were they really like？
    Sigmund Freud，the world-famous doctor of Vienna，was a thinker who changed the way we look at mental illness．He was also a man with courage．
    Once Freud was walking down a dark street．He met two robbers．This was back in

Sailing along a canal，a ship often has to go through a series of locks．Locks are like stairs for ships．They make it possible for a ship to go“upstairs”from a low body of water to a higher one or“downstairs”from a high body of water to a lower one．
    A lock is simply a big water tank open at the top with watertight（不透

The whole world in which we live is influenced by science，as is shown most immediately and strikingly by our modern conveniences and material resources．A little deeper thinking shows that the influence of science goes much farther and colors the entire outlook in the mind of modern civilized（文明的）man on the world about him．Perhaps one of

(A)
How to Solve Personal Problems
By Robert Millward

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Four Freedoms
By Franklin Roosevelt
In the future days，which we seek t

广告英语与普通英语存在许多差异，而又与人们日常生活密切相关，应用性很强。所以广告类阅读题可以很好地考查学生提取信息、处理信息的能力，也是历年来高考考查的一个热点。2003年高考全国卷就再次出现此类题目。但也正因为广告英语不同于学生平时所学习的普通英语，其文句精练，信息量大，表达方式千变万化，许多学生面对这种题目要么束手无策，要么需要花费大量时间才能完成，都不得要领，所以要加强针对性训练。其实，做这种题目也是有法可循的：先略读题目，再浏览题干，然后带着问题找答案。在阅读时又要特别注意文中以黑体、大写、下划线等方式加以提示

The kings of ancient Egypt planned strong tombs to keep their bodies safe after death and to hold their treasure．The Great Pyramid was built thousands of years ago for a king called Khufu．It stands on the west bank of the Nile River not far from Cairo．In fact，all the pyramids along the Nile are on its west bank．The ancient Egyptians comp

The story of Helen Keller has given courage and hope to many people．Helen had many problems but she used her life to do great things．
    When Helen Keller was a child，she often behaved

Thomas Jefferson became President of the United States on March 4, 1802. He was the first president to take office in the new capital, Washington, D. C. Although Washington was a new city it was already familiar to President Jefferson. In fact, Jefferson had hel