Last Sunday the elephant keeper at London Jim Robson, was killed by one of the elephants he loved This was terrible, and it could be a big problem for the future（将来）of London Zoo—and maybe for all Britain's city zoos.
London Zoo said that it would move its three elephants to a wild（野生的）animal park outside London. Its director-ge

Have you ever seen snow? Many people in the world have not. Some countries never have snow; some have only a little on the tops of very high mountains. In the north of England, there is quite a lot of snow every winter, but in the south of England, there is usually little.
When a student from a warm country comes to England in a

Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench（长凳）. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, "Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.' "Sir," said the poor man, "I

People have sailed（航海）the world in quite small boats. It is not an easy thing to do. That can be the end of everyone in it. Sometimes the weather gets bad. Accidents can happen easily and quickly.
One family once had an accident. A big fish swam under their boat and bit（咬）holes in it. Sea water came in and the boat soon we

Most people around the world axe right-handed. This also seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works（作品）of art made at different times from1,500 B.C. to the 1950s. Most of the people shown in these works are right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through history. Today, onl

Is there a strange something high up in the world's tallest mountains? If so, is it a big
bear（熊）? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?
No one knows. This mystery（谜）has puzzled（困惑）the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints（脚印）in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very larg

Every town in the United States has a post office. Some are very small, and you may also find them in the corner of a shop. Others are large buildings. They are open five days a week and Saturday mornings. From day through Friday they are usually open from 8:30 to 4:30.
If you know how much the postage（邮资）is for your letter, you

(A)
　　A good reader is very much like a driver. He must change his reading speed（速度）to fit（适应）what he is reading and what he is reading for, just as a driver does to fit the road situation （状况）.
A good reader may read at 1,000 WPM（每分钟…词）when he looks for something for a report in t

辽宁省阅读理解：Passage 1
　　We are all busy talking about and using the Internet,but how many of us know the history of the Internet?
Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up(建立) in the 1960s. At that time,computers were large and expensive. Computer networks(网络) didn't work well.

山东省烟台市阅读理解(D)：
Puccini Pizza, The Best Pizza
　　We sell delicious pizza to people all over the world. We now need a kitchen assistant for our new branch(分店) in Taichung. He/She should have an interest in making pizza. More importantly, he/she should have work experience in a restaurant. He/S

山东省阅读理解题B：
　　It's eight in the morning.Mr Robert is free from work.He is now looking through a list of TV programs with his little son Tony.
  Channel 2

青海省阅读理解(A)：
  In China,more and more middle school students are getting shorter sleeping time than before.Most students sleep less than nine hours every night because they have much homework to do.Some homework is given by their teachers,and some by their parents.Also,some students don't know how to sav

When we're with people from different countries，we sometimes have misunderstandings，or make mistakes．Read What did I do？and decide what each misunderstanding or mistake is．

When we smell smoke，we think“fire”，and fire is a scary thing．Fire can harm things，but it can also help nature．
In 1988，Yellowstone Park had some very bad fires．They burned

Centuries ago，people didn't have much free time，because everybody was working too hard．In Britain in the nineteenth century，peopl