初中英语阅读理解100篇

1 Shumei has many pen-friends around the world. She likes writing to them and receiving their letters in return. She stated writing to her first pen-friend, Thomas Wright from Britain, when she was ten years old. They have been writing to each other for two years now. Shumei enjoys writing to people from other counties because she finds it very interesting to learn more about those counties and the different things. She hopes to visit her pen-friends some day, but she will continue writing to them and enjoying their friendship. She will also try to look for pen-friends from other counties such as Japan, China and France. Shumei 有很多世界各地的笔友。她喜欢写信给他们，喜欢收到他们的回信。当她10 岁时，开始给第一位来自英国的笔友Thomas Wright写信。他们互相写信至今已有两年了。 Shumei 之所以喜欢写信给外国人，是因为她觉得更多地了解那些国家和不同的事物是件很有趣的事情。 她希望有一天去拜访她的笔友，但是她会继续写信给他们，分享他们的友谊。 她也期待着来自外国的笔友，如日本，中国和法国的朋友。 2 The boss found a boy in the stock room just standing around doing nothing. “How much do you get paid a week?” He asked the boy. The boy replied, “Twenty dollars.” Taking a twenty dollar bill out of his wallet, the boss gave it to the boy and said, “Her e, take this. Now get out of here and don’t come back.” As the boy walked out the door, the boss said to the manager, “How long has that lazy kid been working for us?” “He doesn’t work for us,” replied the manager. “He just delivered a package.” 老板在储藏室里看见一个男孩正站着，无所事事。他问这个男孩：“你一个星期得到多少报酬？”。这个男孩回答说：“20 美元。”老板从他的钱包里拿出了20 美元的钞票，给了这男孩，说：“收好了。现在，从这里滚出去，不要回来了”。当男孩走出门去，老板对经理说：“这么懒惰的孩子为我们工...