本书主要适用于五年级学生英语阅读素养及阅读理解能力的培养。书中共收录适合当代小学生英语阅读训练短文118篇，选材内容有人物故事、学习、日常生活、体育运动、动植物、兴趣爱好、健康饮食、季节与天气、节假日、幽默与笑话等。短文材料新颖，内容丰富，语言地道，趣味性强，既有利于激发小学生的阅读兴趣，又有助于培养其阅读理解能力。
本书既可作为老师及家长引导下的学生“自主训练”，也可作为五年级学生英语教学的课后习题，是一本不可多得的好书。

高翠华（笔名：高梓彤），毕业于北京第二外国语学院，从事英语教育及相关工作近16年，熟悉并深入研究中小学各阶段英语教材、新概念、剑桥国际英语、KET与PET等多种英语教材及国际英语考试。工作之余，最大爱好就是阅读各类优秀的中英文书籍，撰写文章。英语阅读让平凡的生活变得多姿多彩。

Passage1-7
Passage 1 Insomnia
Passage 2 An Ezine
Passage 3 Alcohol
Passage 4 bingling
Passage 5 What's-the Rush!
Passage 6 Mr Daddy
Passage 7 The Most Beautiful Mother
Passage8-14
Passage 8 Boys
Passage 9 How to Be Happy
Passage 10 The Ways to Improve Self-confidence
Passage 11 That's How Crows Drink
Passage 12 Tony
Passage 13 Tingting
Passage 14 How to Live Better
Passage15-21
Passage t5 A New Cell Phone
Passage 16 Colorful Imagination
Passage 17 Flowers
Passage 18 Living Things Move in Different Ways
Passage 19 A Letter
Passage 20 Beware of the Dog
Passage 21 Leaf Edges
Passage22-28
Passage 22 Strawberries
Passage 23 Parents
Passage 24 Youth
Passage 25 The Man, the Arm and the BMW
Passage 26 All I Do Is to Pay
Passage 27 Dreams
Passage 28 A Present
Passage29-35
Passage 29 The Doctor Knows Better
Passage 30 Expensive Price
Passage 31 I Wasn't Asleep
Passage 32 The Poor Husband
Passage 33 Who's More Polite
Passage 34 Let Dog in Hotel
Passage 35 Intelligent Son
Passage36-42
Passage 36 Put Your Feet in
Passage 37 Where Is the Father?
Passage 38 Does the Dog Know the Proverb, Too?
Passage 39 A Blind Man and His Guide Dog
Passage 40 Then You Can Ask Him
Passage 41 The Old Cat
Passage 42 The Thirsty Pigeon
Passage43-49
Passage 43 A Clever Rabbit
Passage 44 Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell
Passage 45 Who Has Repaired Them?
Passage 46 Mozart
Passage 47 I Have Turned It Over
Passage 48 The Art of Cry
Passage 49 Mother Mouse
Passage50-56
Passage 50- -I Want to Tell Others
Passage 51 A Clever Professor
Passage 52 Is It Out Too?
Passage 53 Is There a Crib in Your Stomach?
Passage 54 The Last Warning
Passage 55 A Clever Boy
Passage 56 I Didn't Need It Then
Passage57-63
Passage 57 You Are the Seventh
Passage 58 Mother and Son
Passage 59 Is Tommy Right?
Passage 60 Who Are the Other Two?
Passage 61 Politeness
Passage 62 She Ate All My Bait
Passage 63 A Ballet Perforrn~nce
Passage64-70
Passage 64 All Languages Spoken Here
Passage 65 Who Is the Laziest?
Passage 66 Excuses
Passage 67 I'm Just Kidding
Passage 68 But Tom
Passage 69 Drawing a Snake and Adding Feet to It
Passage 70 The Three Foxes
Passage71-78
Passage 71 Tendency
Passage 72 A Large Tack
Passage 73 Tw'o Dogs
Passage 74 A Clever Farmer
Passage 75 The Wolf an-d the Lamb
Passage 76 A Fox and a Goat
Passage 7"/ The Bat and the Weasels
Passage 78 Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way
Passage79-85
Passage 79 A Good Boy
Passage 80 Thrift and Extravagance
Passage 81 I Can't Drink That Much Every Day
Passage 82 It's Good to Admit a Fault
Passage 83 The Dog and the Shadow
Passage 84 Everyone Has a Story in Life
Passage 85 One Real Man
Passage86-92
Passage 86 Watching TV
Passage 87 Christmas Day
Passage 88 Bowing
Passage 89 Tree Frogs
Passage 90 Apple Eaters
Passage 91 Good Sleep
Passage 92 The Dog VS the Alligator
Passage93-99
Passage 93 Bullfight
Passage 94 Lizards
Passage 95 Kites
Passage 96 Dogs
Passage 97 A Reward
Passage 98 Leaves Colbr
Passage 99 Wind
Passage100-106
Passage 100 Heart
Passage 101 Reptiles
Passage 102 Potato Chips
Passage 103 The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Passage 104 Lungs
Passage 105 Turtles
Passage 106 Interesting Sports Facts
Passage107-113
Passage 107 Wash the Coat First
Passage 108 Lemonade
Passage 109 Drunken Driving
Passage 110 Animals' Languages
Passage 111 A Zoo Keeper
Passage 112 Growing
Passage 113 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Passage114-118
Passage 114 Amazing Facts
Passage 115 Crocodiles
Passage 116 Badminton
Passage 117 Clever Cats
Passage 118 Talking Birds