Dreams（梦）may be more important than sleep. Some people don't need much sleep. But we all need to dream, scientists say.
Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping I time. People have several dreams each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and

Some people remember the things by writing notes to themselves. Then they leave the notes in obvious（明显的）places, such as on the table or on the floor in the middle of the living mom. I don't think I like to write notes to myself. Most of the time I lose them or forget to look at them until it's too late. I prefer to use an alarm clock（闹钟

Many teenagers（青少年）feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, and in particular（尤其）their parents, don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends

Letter A 　　
Dear Rose,
I like your programmes very much. I'm now writing to ask you something about American social customs（社交习惯）. My American friends want me to join them in their dinner party. I am very happy and have decided to go, but I'm a little worried abou

People communicate（交际）with words. But do you think you can communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears（泪水）in your eyes tell others that you are sad. You shake（摇动）your head, and people know you are saying "no". You nod（点头）and people know you are saying "yes". Other things can also carry messages.

A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every day in the year. You may fail in an exam if you are lazy for most of the year and then work hard only a few days before the exam.
Do not remember only grammar（语法）when you are learning English. Try to read stories in English and speak in English as often as you can. A few days befo

Never try to work when you are very hungry. If you decide to do your homework right after school, you may get something to eat before getting to work. Always do your homework before you get too tired. Don't wait until very late in the evening, or your work will seem much harder than it really is.
If you have more than an hour's

河南省阅读理解C：　　
Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet,but what is it?
The Internet is many different networks around the world.A network is a group of computers put together.These networks joined together are called the Internet.
Maybe that doesn't sound interesting.But when we've joined

广东省阅读理解C：　　
　　Thirty years ago,Lake Ponkapog was full of life.Many birds and animals lived beside the water,which was full of fish.Now there are few birds,animals and fish.The lake water is polluted.It is filled with strange plants.
How did this happen?First,we must think about how water gets into Lake Ponka

安徽省芜湖市阅读理解：
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。　　
1970 was the World Conservation(保护)Year. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger.They hoped that governments(政府) would act quickly in order to conserve nature.Here is one example of the problems.At one time there

湖北省黄冈市阅读理解B(1)：
　　阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在回答所提问题的句子中填上恰当的词。每空一词。
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　　Clem Quinn was always interested in flying.When he was five,he tried to fly by jumping off the garden shed(小棚) with a golf umbrella,but when he was in his twenties he didn't become a pilot(飞行员),he become a taxi

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