暑假过后，新初三生们迎来了初中最重要的一年——初三。为方便2013年中考考生及家长查询相关信息，留学群中考频道特别搜集汇总了中考英语阅读素材以供参考：
a fish and a lamb 小羊羔与小鱼儿
Once upon a time were a little brother and a little sister who loved each other with all their hearts. Their own mother, however, was dead, and they had a stepmother who was not kind to them. She secretly did everything she could to hurt them.
It so happened that the two of them were playing with other children in a meadow in front their house. There was a pond in the meadow that came up to one side of the house. The children ran around it, caught one another, and played a counting out game:
Eenie, meenie, let me live,
And to you my bird I'll give.
The little bird will bring me straw,
The straw I'll give then to the cow.
For which the cow will give me milk,
The milk I'll to the baker take.
With which he then will bake a cake,
The cake I'll then give to the cat.
Little cat will catch some mice for that,
The mice I'll hang up in the smoke,
And after that I'll cut them up.
While playing this game they stood in a circle, and the one to whom they were pointing when they said "cut them up" had to run away, and all the others would run after him and catch him. While they were thus running about so joyfully the stepmother was watching them from the window, and grew angry. Because she understood the art of witchcraft she bewitched them bot...