阅读是学习各种知识的核心要素。它不仅是学好英语，积累词汇的基础，也是英语学习中其他所有技能的基础。阅读能帮助我们拓展视野，开阔思路，提高对英语学习的兴趣，为获取更高的语言成就铺平道路。
本书所选短文内容新颖，难易程度适中，题型多样，涵盖了阅读理解中可能出现的各种题型。在文中的适当位置依据文章的内容配有精巧幽默的插图，以激发学生的阅读兴趣，帮助学生理解文章的内容。参考答案中均有详细的解析以供参考。

Passage 1 An Old Cat
Passage 2 My Good Friend
Passage 3 Let's Go to Watch the Magic Show
Passage 4 My Busy Weekend
Passage 5 Sam and His Mother
Passage 6 The Browns
Passage 7 Jane's Birthday
Passage 8 My Friends and I
Passage 9 A Fox and a Lion
Passage 10 Their Bedroom
Passage 11 Jim's Sunday
Passage 12 A Flying Doctor
Passage 13 Mike and Helen
Passage 14 The Green Family
Passage 15 Why Do the Flowers Die?
Passage 16 Give His Seat to You
Passage 17 I Don't Know Any of You Here
Passage 18 The Moon
Passage 19 A School Boy
Passage 20 The Spring Festival
Passage 21 The World's First Underground Railway
Passage 22 Canada
Passage 23 It Isn't My House
Passage 24 An Honest Boy
Passage 25 A Playbill
Passage 26 Five Good Friends
Passage 27 A Lovely Boy
Passage 28 A Clever Mother Crow
Passage 29 Buying New Tables
Passage 30 A Basketball Match
Passage 31 American Football
Passage 32 My Father
Passage 33 Two Good Friends
Passage 34 My Father's Farm
Passage 35 Three Little Pigs
Passage 36 Why Are You Kicking Me?
Passage 37 Fangfang and Lily
Passage 38 Our Classroom
Passage 39 One Cigar a Day
Passage 40 What's Happiness?
Passage 41 A Small Girl
Passage 42 Mark Twain
Passage 43 A Happy Family
Passage 44 Beethoven
Passage 45 My Teeth Is in the Cake!
Passage 46 The USA
Passage 47 A Letter to Lily
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