趣味英语阅读20篇（01）The Day Before YesterdayMark 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. cleanB. dirtyC. white（02）The Best JobBetty 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 bigB. the dog is not cleanC. the dog has not ticket( ) 2. The meaning of the conductor’s word is _______.A. the dog’s feet are like the other peopleB. the dog must be like a manC. 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 ZooA 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?___________________（08）Beautiful Nature(自然)Look, there is a sun in the sky. It looks like a red ball. On the top of the mountain, there is a happy girl. She is singing. At the foot of the mountain, there is a cow, and it’s eating grass（草）. Near the cow, there is a farmer resting.All the things are parts of the beautiful nature.根据短文判断正误( ) 1. Near the cow, there is a girl.( ) 2. The farmer is working.( ) 3. At the foot of the mountain, there is a boy.+++++++++++++++++++++++++（09）A joke（一个笑话）:William: I will go to the moon.Dave: I will go to the sun.William: But the sun is too hot.Dave: I can go there at night.（10）I Don't Want to Walk HomeTom is a very old man. After dinner, he likes walking in the street. Andhe comes home for bed at seven o'clock.But tonight, a car stopped at his house. A policeman helps him get out. He tells Tom's wife," The old man couldn't find his way in the street. He asked me to take him home in the car."After the policeman leaves there, his wife asks, "Tom, you go to that street there. But tonight you can't find the way, what's the matter?"The old man smiles like a child and says, "I couldn't find my way? I didn't want to walk home."1: Who asks the policeman to take him home in the car? _______2: Is the old man clever? Why? _______________（11）How to Keep Healthy?“E arly to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” This is an old English saying. It means that we must go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. The body must have enough sleep to be healthy. Children of young age need ten hours’ sleep every night. If people don’t have enough sleep, they can’t do their work very well. They will not be wise and they may not be wealthy! The body also needs exercises. Walking, running, jumping, swimming and playing games are all exercises. Exercises keeps the body strong.（）1. If we get up early and go to bed early, we’ll _____.A. have enough exerciseB. be healthyC. think better（12）A Second LanguageOne day, the mother rat and her babies were having a good time in the open air when a cat came to catch them for her dinner. The mother rat noticed the cat coming near. The mother rat and her babies all tried to run away at once. They hurried to their home. It was under the tree. But the baby rats were afraid of the cat. They couldn’t run very fast .The cat came closer and closer. She would come at them. “What shall I do?” thought the mother rat. Just at that moment the mother rat stopped running, turned around and shouted at the cat, “Bowwow. Bowwow!” Just like an angry dog. The cat was so surprised and afraid that she ran away. The mother rat turned to her babies, “Now you see how important it is to learn a second language!”1._______ were having a good time in the open air.2. The cat at last ran away because___________________________.（13）A little fish.I am a little fish. I live in the sea. It is dark there, but I am not afraid. There are so many fish living near me that I always have many friends.I feel very happy, because I love to swim. My mother often warns me to be careful, because some big fish may eat me up. I know that she is right. Mother loves me and I love her, too.根据短文判断正误（）1.My home is in the sea.（）2.If I am not careful enough, some big fish will kill me.（）3.Mother and I love each other.（14）A Strong AntThere are many kinds of ants in America. One kind is very strong. People are afraid of it, and animals are afraid of it, too.These ants move in big groups. They eat all the animals on their way. They can kill and eat elephants, and they can eat wood houses. Sometimes even people are killed by them. When the ants come near, people leave their homes. But people are sometimes glad after the ants pass through, because they can see no insects or snakes.1.Some ants in America can be very .A.HeavyB. strongC. lightD. thin2. Where are the insects and the snakes after the ants pass through?A.They hide themselves under the ground.B.They have moved to other places before the ants come.C.They have been killed and eaten up（被吃光）by the ants.D.They have been killed by people.3. The strong ants can eat .A.elephantsB. insectsB.snakes D. A, B and C（15）Three TortoisesOne day, three tortoises wanted to have a glass of orange juice. Just when they got into the shop, it started to rain. The eldest tortoise said to the youngest one, “Go back to get the umbrella!”The little tortoise answered, “I will if you don’t drink my orange juice.”“We won’t.” the other two promised（许诺）.Ten days later, the eldest tortoise said to the middle one, “Well, I guess he won’t come back, so you may drink his orange juice.”Just then, a voice called from outside, “ If you do, I won’t go.”问题：Did the youngest tortoise go back home?______________(16)It’s Sunday. There are many people in the bus. And an old man is looking here and there. He wants to find an empty seat. Then he finds one. He goes to it. A small bag is on the seat. And a young man is sitting beside it.“Is this seat empty?”asks the old man.“No, it’s for a woman. She goes to buy some bananas.”Says the young man.“Well,”says the old man,“Let me sit here please. When she comes back, I will leave here.”The bus starts.“She doesn’t come, but her bag is here. Let me give her the bag.”Then the old man throws the bag out of the bus window.The young man jumps up and shouts,“Don’t throw! It’s my bag!”()1. The old man wants to find an empty seat _____.A. in the roomB. in the busC. in a car()2. The old man finds an empty seat. He goes there and finds there is ____ on it.A. a manB. womanC. a bagD. a coat()3. The young man says the seat is for ________.A. a manB. a womanC. a girl()5. The bag is ________. The young man doesn’t want the old man to throw it away.A. the woman’sB. the old man’sC. the driver’sD. the young man’s（17）Too PoliteThere are many people in the bus. Some have seats, but some have to stand. At a bus stop, a woman gets on the bus. An old man hears the door and tries to stand up.“Oh, no, thank you,” the woman forces (强迫) him back to the seat. “Please don't do that. I can stand.”“But, madam, let me…,” says the man.“I ask you to keep your seat，” the woman says. She puts her hands on the old man's shoulder(肩膀).But the man still(仍然) tries to stand up, “Madam, will you please let me…?”“Oh, no, ”says the woman. She again forces the man back.At last the old man shouts, “I want to get off the bus!”( )1.All the people have seats in the bus.( )2.The old man wants to give his seat to he woman.( )3.The woman sits the old man's seat.( )4.The old man wants to get off the bus. （18）Peter was a clever boy. On his first day at school, he learned three words: I, you and she. The teacher taught him how to make sentences with those words. The teacher said, "I, I am your teacher;(then pointing to a girl) She, she is your classmate; You, you are my student."When Peter went home, his father asked him what he had learned at school. Peter said at once, "I, I am your teacher;(then pointing to his mother) She, she is your classmate; You, you are my student." His father got angry and said: "I, I am your father;(then pointing to his wife) She, she is your mother' You, you are my son."The next morning at school, the teacher asked Peter if he had learned the three words by heart. "Yes," he said proudly, "I, I am your father; (then pointing to a girl) She, she is your mother; You, you are my son."1) What did Peter learn on his first day at school? _________________2) How many sentences did the teacher teach him? _______________3) Who asked him a question when Peter went home? _____________4) How did his father feel when he heard Peter's sentences?（19）A little boy didn’t say a word until he was three years old. His mother took him to every doctor, but there was no use. He was healthy and bright , so the doctors told his mother not to worry.One morning the boy suddenly knocked on the table and cried out, “These eggs are terrible!” The mother was very glad at hearing her son speak, and asked, “Why didn’t you say anything before?”“Well.” He answered, “up to now, the eggs have been very good.”1.Why didn’t the little boy say a word?A.He didn’t want to say.B.He couldn’t say.C.He was ill.D.There was something wrong with his health.2.The little boy didn’t say a word before he was ___________years old.A. oneB. twoC. threeD. four （20）Mr Ball is head of the office. He’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife knows him well and does all at home.Bad luck! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic (交通) accident last month and has to be in hospital now. Mrs Ball has to look after there and she can’t go home. Mr Ball often eats something in the restaurant. As he never did any tiding, the rooms were all in a mess（零乱）.Yesterday morning, before Mr Ball got up, the telephone rang. He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to write down an important telephone number. But he could find neither a pen nor a piece of paper. He found there was much dust（灰尘）on the table and wrote the telephone number on it. But soon he forgot it and went to work. Two hours later his wife came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came in while she was tiding the rooms.H e couldn’t see the number and shouted, “Who let you tidy the room?”( ) 1. Mrs Ball has to stay with her daughter in the hospital.( ) 2. Mr Ball wrote down the telephone number on a piece of paper.()3. Mr Ball came in while his wife was looking for a sweater.（21）WeatherToday is sunny. We’ll go out for a picnic. Today is windy. We’ll climb the hill. Today is cloudy. I’ll visit my friends. Today is rainy. I’ll go to the cinema.It is hot today. I am going to swim.It’s cold today. I’m going to stay at home.。