阅读是学习外语的主要途径之一。学习者只有通过阅读进行大量的语言输入，才能有效提高自己综合运用英语的能力。为了切实有效地帮助学生完成一定的语言输入量，扩大自己的知识面和自如运用所学知识，编者们编写了本书，既可以作为配套教材使用，也可以供所有初级、中级学习者单独使用。

基础篇

Passage 1 Sleep and Exercise

Passage 2 Emotions and Health

Passage 3 Sunshine in a Box

Passage 4 An Unexpected Help

Passage 5 Snow

Passage 6 Yawning Is Contagious

Passage 7 Green Plants and Deserts

Passage 8 The Story of the Ice Cream

Passage 9 The Travel of the American People

Passage 10 Where to Live

Passage 11 Who Pays for the Meal?

Passage 12 Nature

Passage 13 Language and Brain

Passage 14 Teenagers Need Friends

Passage 15 The Use of "Cool"

Passage 16 May I Have a Rain Check?

Passage 17 The Computer

Passage 18 The FA Cup of England

Passage 19 Titanic

Passage 20 Australia

Passage 21 Stamps

Passage 22 Michael Jordan

Passage 23 The 29th Olympic Games in 2008

Passage 24 Weather Satellite

Passage 25 Danny's School Life

Passage 26 Arbor Day in America

Passage 27 Good Memory

Passage 28 Tree Rings

Passage 29 English Family Names

Passage 30 An Absent-minded Professor

Passage 31 Meal Time

Passage 32 Postcard

Passage 33 Batteries

Passage 34 The Antarctica

Passage 35 Football

Passage 36 How the Name Canada Came About

Passage 37 O. Henry

Passage 38 Lightning

Passage 39 About Drinking Tea

Passage 40 A Letter to My Sister

Passage 41 Time Zones

Passage 42 Mother's Day

Passage 43 The Ways to Stop Quarreling

Passage 44 An Unexpected Meeting

Passage 45 Psychological Space

Passage 46 The Oldest College Student

Passage 47 Ways of Traveling

Passage 48 The Television Advertisements in America

Passage 49 The Driver's Answer

Passage 50 Bottled Milk

Passage 51 The Courage of an AIDS Child

Passage 52 Ideas for Inventions

Passage 53 The Rich Man and the Poor Man

Passage 54 Mid-autumn Festival

Passage 55 Water Shortage

Passage 56 Eating Habits

Passage 57 To Be a Brave New Girl

Passage 58 Owner-builders

Passage 59 A Curious Accident

Passage 60 On Buying Clothes

Passage 61 Ways of Communications

Passage 62 Jane

Passage 63 Bamboo

Passage 64 Newspapers

Passage 65 Pollution and Green Food

Passage 66 The Cost of Medicine in the U.S.A

Passage 67 Advantages of Watching TV

Passage 68 Sign Language

Passage 69 Superstar

Passage 70 Part-time Jobs Can Cost Dear

Passage 71 A Real Job for Teachers

Passage 72 Happiness

Passage 73 Love Story

Passage 74 Earthquakes

Passage 75 A Journey in a Balloon

Passage 76 Internet

Passage 77 Meeting the English Family

Passage 78 Homesick

Passage 79 Sailing

Passage 80 Gardening

Passage 81 The Two Meanings of Day

Passage 82 The Girl from the Street

Passage 83 Freezing

Passage 84 Editor's Note

Passage 85 A Lottery Ticket

Passage 86 Mobile Phone

Passage 87 The Change of English Language

Passage 88 The Bill of 100 yuan RMB

Passage 89 Ads

Passage 90 Christmas Gift

Passage 91 News

Passage 92 Understanding People Is an Art

Passage 93 Mark Twain

Passage 94 A Different Kind of Doctor

Passage 95 The Dream of Flying

Passage 96 Great Inventions

Passage 97 GM Foods

Passage 98 An Unpleasant Experience

Passage 99 The New Traffic Law

Passage 100 A New Dictionary

Passage 101 The Main Use of Colors for Animals and Pests

Passage 102 Teleshopping

Passage 103 No-teacher Exam

Passage 104 The History of Greenwich

Passage 105 How America Got Its Name

Passage 106 Save the Children

Passage 107 Changes in American Families

Passage 108 I Wish You Enough

Passage 109 A New Kind of School

Passage 110 Saving Paper

Passage 111 Blacksmith in New York

Passage 112 Love for Strangers

Passage 113 Lures in a Supermarket

Passage 114 Customs of Different Countries

Passage 115 Ways of Making Fire

Passage 116 Neighborhood Watch Group

Passage 117 Groundwater--the Polluted Resource

Passage 118 Rooftop Gardening

Passage 119 New Rules and Behavior Standards

Passage 120 The Importance of Being on Time Differs Among Cultures

提高篇

Passage 121 The Origin of the Jeans

Passage 122 Brain

Passage 123 Some Ideas for Some Foods

Passage 124 Migration

Passage 125 The First Computer Art Museum in the World

Passage 126 Wall Street

Passage 127 Stephen Hawking in China

Passage 128 Anesthetic

Passage 129 Louis Braille and His Success

Passage 130 The Art of Apologizing

Passage 131 The Sense of Taste

Passage 132 The Laugh Lab Project

Passage 133 The Temple of Heaven

Passage 134 The Sea

Passage 135 How to Teach the Students to Learn a Poem

Passage 136 Auction Sales

Passage 137 What a Bad Experience

Passage 138 Two Women Astronauts

Passage 139 A Single Culture

Passage 140 About Snowblindness

Passage 141 General Tom Thumb

Passage 142 The Generation Gap

Passage 143 A Poem Changes My Father's Bad Habit

Passage 144 The Transfer of Heat

Passage 145 Disney's Dream

Passage 146 Alcohol and the Culture

Passage 147 An Unknown Dance

Passage 148 Unreality of TV

Passage 149 Sam and His Youngest Son

Passage 150 Salt

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