导读：三年级学生开始学习英语，与之相对的训练也应该起步，三年级学生不仅应该对单词多记忆，还应该逐步养成对文章的把控力，联系上下文了解句子所表达的意思。同时，学生想要提高自己的阅读速度，离不开日常的多读多看多练习，在阅读中学生能够学习到更多的单词及用法，想要学好英语，就要对自己严加要求，从现在开始，做好英语学习的每一步，本篇是一篇英语的阅读理解题，帮助学生进行阅读训练，记得生词好句要进行收集哦!

　　The peasant and the apple-tree

　　A Peasant had an Apple-tree growing in his garden, which bore no fruit, but merely served to provide a shelter from the heat for the sparrows and grasshoppers which SAT and chirped in its branches. Disappointed at its barrenness he determined to cut it sparrows and the grasshoppers saw what he was about to do, they begged him to spare it, www.xiaogushi8.com and said to him, “If you destroy the tree we shall have to seek shelter elsewhere, and you will no longer have our merry chirping to enliven your work in the garden.” He ,however, refused to listen to them, and set to work with a will to inside and contained a swarm of bees and a large store of honey. Delighted with his find he threw down his axe, saying, “The old tree is worth keeping after all.”

　　Utility is most men’s test of worth.

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