小学 初中趣味英语阅读20篇

趣味英语阅读20篇

（01）The Day Before Yesterday

Mark is a good student in school. But he is not clean. His face and hands are often dirty.

One morning, Mark goes to school. His teacher looks at him and says, “Mark, I know what you eat for breakfast.”

“What?” Mark asks.

“Eggs,” says his teacher. “Your face and your mouth tell me that.”

“No, sir,” Mark says. “Not today or yesterday, but the day before yesterday.”（）1.What does Mike like? Mike is ________

A. clean

B. dirty

C. white

（02）The Best Job

Betty is a lazy girl. She doesn't study hard, and she doesn't help her mother with the housework, either.

"What are you going to be when you grow up, Betty?" Mother asks. "You're too lazy. No job will ever fit you."

"But I know one," says the girl, "I'm going to be Father Christmas,"

"You want to be Father Christmas?" Mother is surprised, "But why?"

"Because he works only one day in a whole year."

1.What does Betty want to be when she grows up? _____________________ Why?

_____________________________________________________________ 2.When does Father Christmas work? _______________________________

It’s time to go home now. I am on a bus on a rainy day, and a woman with a d（03）og gets on the bus. It is a big dog and its feet are not clean.

I don’t want the dog to sit near me. But the woman says to the conductor（售票员）. “Oh, I pay for my dog. Can he sit here like the other people?”

The conductor looks at the dog and says, “Yes, madam, but he can not put his feet on the chair.”

( ) 1. I don’t want the dog to sit near me because ______.

A. the dog is big

B. the dog is not clean

C. the dog has not ticket

( ) 2. The meaning of the conductor’s word is _______.

A. the dog’s feet are like the other people

B. the dog must be like a man

C. the dog can not sit on the chair （04）A rich man decided (决定) to give his mother a birthday present. "My present will be better than any of my brothers." he thought. He heard about an amazing (令人惊异) bird. The bird could speak five languages (语言). He bought the bird at once and sent it to his mother. It cost (花费) him 100 dollars. The day after her birthday, he called his mother. "How did you like the bird, Mom? " he asked eagerly (亲切地). His mother answered, "Well, it's delicious!"

1. Does the man have any brothers?

2. How much is the bird?

（05）We Are Not in the Zoo

A woman comes into a bank with her son in her arms. The boy is only two years old. He's eating a cake.

When the woman comes to one of the windows of the iron（铁）railings（栏杆）, the boy watches the teller（出纳员）carefully. Then he gives his cake to the teller. The teller smiles and shakes his head.

“Oh, no, my dear. Don't do that. We aren't in the zoo.” His mother says. Then she says to the teller,“I'm sorry, please forgive my son. He has just been to the zoo.”

Where does the man go with her son?

__________________________________ （06）Sam is a lazy boy. One day, his mother says to him, “Sam, look your sheet（被单）. It’s too dirty. Would you like to wash it now?” Sam looks at the sheet and then says, “I don’t think it’s dirty. I can turn the sheet over. Is that all right?” Sam’s mother is very angry, “How lazy you are! I turned it over last week!”

判断下列句子正(T)误(F)。

( ) 1. Sam is not lazy.

( ) 2. Sam’s mother is not lazy.

（07）

It's a night. John is looking at the sky.

Tom is John's younger brother. He asks John, "What are you doing?" John says, "I'm counting stars."

Tom laughs and says, It's really dark now. Why not count them tomorrow morning?"

1. What is John doing? ________________________________

2. Can you count stars in the morning?___________________