（黑龙江，2001）
A man heard that a company（公司）needed an office worker. So he wrote and asked for the job. While he was waiting for an answer, a friend of his helped him to meet the head of the company, and then he got the job at once. Several months later, while the man was working in the company, he got a letter. It was sent from hi

（大连市，2001）
When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence "How do you do?" as an example, If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation（翻译）? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

（南昌市，2001）
(A)
　　The word hobby is an interesting word. Every person has one thing he or she likes to do for fun（娱乐）. Some people like to collect（收集）things like stamps or story books. Others like to play football or go window shopping where you can look at many beautiful things without buying them.
I hav

（苏州市，2001）
(A)
　　Many different kinds of birds can copy the sounds of language. African parrots（鹦鹉）are the birds best known for this.
Every December in London, the Bird Show tries to find the best "talking" bird in the world. One bird named Prudle stood out among the "talking birds". She won this prize（

Many people go to school for education. School education is very important and useful, but no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter（无论）how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything. His work is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned out

The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. It can be very terrible when there is a strong wind. The sea is very big. It covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one place, the sea is about 11 kilometres deep there. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometres high.

A friend's grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe（东欧）. After being processed （移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria（自助餐） in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order（点菜）. Of course nobody did. At last, a woman with a plate full of food sat down oppo

Japanese students work very bard but many are unhappy. They feel heavy pressures（压力）from their parents. Most students are always told by their parents to study harder and better so that they can have a wonderful life in the future. Though this may be a good idea for those very bright students, it can have terrible results for many studen

Bruce and Dick were not brothers. They were good friends in Mr. Robert's class at school. Dick was a good pupil, and he enjoyed his lessons. Bruce was well, Bruce was different.
      One day Mr. Robert said to the class: "Write a little story in English. Here's the name of the story." He wrote "The Brothers

One afternoon, when the lessons were over, John and Mike did not go home. They stayed at school to help their teacher carry, some books to the library .They worked for one hour. Then the teacher said, "Thank you, boys. We will finish the work tomorrow. Now you must go home. "
When they got home, it was seven o'clock. It was dark outsi

安徽省芜湖市阅读理解D：
Albert Selmer,a German businessman who speaks good English,was surprised during his latest trip to Beijing.When he got into a taxi,the driver greeted him and asked where he would like to go—in English!“This couldn't be imagined eight years ago when I first visited Beijing,”said Selmer.He wouldn't be

河南省B卷阅读理解C：
Do you live in a city?Do you know how cities began?Long long ago,the world had only a few thousand people.These people moved from place to place.They moved over the land,hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when those people learned about growing food.But when they did,their lives c

浙江省镇江市阅读理解(C)：
One morning in April,Jim Reed checked his email. It was from a woman in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. He had talked to her on email many times in the last ten days.All the other messages were fun and interesting to read.This message was different.
The message said,“Goodbye loved kowihn yu I

(下面两个市的中考阅读理解题系1996年英语能力测试初试高二年级组试题，出题人为我社高级编辑，材料选自国外原版英语材料，并经过我社高级编辑加工、设题。)
    四川省南充市阅读理解：
　　阅读下面表格内容，然后做文后的题目。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或能完成所给句子的正确答案，并将其字母代号填入题前括号内。

What do Napoleon, Clinton and Wang Nan have in common? They are all left-handed. Today about 15% of the number of people is left- handed . But why are people left- handed? The answer is the way the brain（大脑）works. The brain has two halves- the right half and the left half. The right half controls（控制）the left side of the body, and the lef