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The corpus-based approach is inherently comparative in nature.The marriage between corpora and contrastive analysis produces a synergy that greatly benefits both areas of research.This paper introduces a new model of Contrastive Corpus Linguistics which provides a common research platform for areas including corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and second language acquisition research.In the paper we will also present the major research findings, and discuss the challenge and promise, of corpus-based contrastive studies of two distinctly different languages such as English and Chinese,by focusing on passive constructions and classifiers in the two languages.