目录 1
一、阅读理解100篇 1
1．The Ass in the Lion's Skin 1
2．Letter Bomb 2
3．Grey Power 3
4．A Baby Giraffe 4
5．Great Wall Run：Two Thirds Complete 6
6．Energy Crisis 7
7．Manhattan 9
8．Water 10
9．Earthball 11
10．The Sea Otter 13
11．A Family Letter 14
12．Test Your Lung Capacity by Yourself 15
13．The First Men on the Moon 16
14．Jack London 18
15．English for International Communication 19
16．Jobs：A Look into the Future 21
17．Pollution and Weather 22
18．Mr Thomson and His Son in the Bar 23
19．Einstein 25
20．Colorful Language 26
21．Mark Twain 28
22．The Waiter 29
23．Keeping Meat from Spoiling 31
24．Going Around the World 32
25．Acceleration 34
26．Let's Help Each Other 35
27．The First Ball Games 37
28．Atomic Physics 39
29．An“Alarm Clock” 40
30．A Way to Success 42
31．A Special Way to Honor Edison 43
32．The Earthworm 45
33．Skin-diving 47
34．Worlds in the Sky 48
35．Uncle Jim 50
36．The Owl 52
37．Letter to Editor 53
38．School City 55
39．Rules for Swimmers 57
40．Time Difference Around the World 59
41．Fishing 60
42．At the Table 62
43．A Strange Thing from the Sky 64
44．An Experiment 66
45．How Women Changed History 67
46．Food Chains 69
47．Mr Baker in Trouble？ 71
48．The Known and the Unknown 73
49．The Architect 75
50．Wealth from the Ground 77
51．Safety Matches 78
52．Walter Plinge 80
53．The Camel 81
54．The Oldest Animal on Earth 83
55．Medicine Men and Witch Doctors 85
56．Good Parents in Antarctica 87
57．Frontier Settlements 89
58．Weather Satellites 90
59．Football in British Schools 92
60．I'm Not Lost 94
61．The Olympic Marathon 96
62．Bacitracin 98
63．The Battle of the Sexes 100
64．Island Adventure 102
65．Sleeping 104
66．Hibernation 106
67．Stop the World 108
68．Sport and Money 110
69．The Fox and the Truck Full of Fish 112
70．Education 114
71．Garrett A．Morgan 116
72．Rockets 118
73．Skiing 119
74．The Open University 121
75．The Brain 124
76．A Flying Saucer 126
77．Dinner at Eight 128
78．Exploring Space 130
79．Two Bottles of Water 132
80．The Two Farmers 134
81．The Absent-minded Professor 137
82．Nobody Was Interested in It 138
83．There’s Always Room for More 141
84．A Test 143
85．200 Hours without Sleep 145
86．Visiting Backstage 148
87．Summer Time 150
88．Radar and War 152
89．The Postman 155
90．Daily Help 157
91．The Lorry Driver 159
92．Silly Saburo 162
93．The Pop Singer 164
94．Our Environment 167
95．The Travel Agent 170
96．One Night in Casablanca 172
97．Sounds Made by Dolphins 175
98．The Firemen 177
99．The Lady with the Lamp 180
100．How the Magans Got Fire and Fooled Their Enemies 182
二、附录 185
三、参考答案 221