1.Do You Know My Work  One night a hotel caught fire, and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes. Two men stood outside and looked at the fire. Be...

  1.The Joke Sir William Thompson was very deaf but he did not like people to know this． One evening he had invited several friendsto dinner， and while they were sitting at ...

1.WHAT‘S THE TIME The two boys were camping in the backyard. When they couldn‘t figure out what time it was, the first boy said to the second, 'Start singing very loud.' 'How wi...

  1.After supper, the parents were busy playing mah-jong with the guests. At this point the mother thought of something and said to her son who was watching TV, 'Honey, go see...

'Flowers need water,' said the teacher. 'Water your flowers every day, or they‘ll die.'   One morning Mother saw Marry out in the garden and asked, 'What are you doing there,...

Fred Williams worked in a factory with a lot of other men. They talked and laughed a lot, and at lunch time they sat together and read newspapers and laughed about the pictures in ...

An old lady went out shopping last Tuesday. She came to a bank and saw a car near the door. A man got out of it and went into the bank. She looked into the car. The keys were in th...

There were a lot of men’s clubs in London afew years ago. Men went there and read their newspapers quietly, or drank orhad meals with their friends. 几年前，在伦敦有许多男人俱乐部...

★ What bird lifts heavy things? (什么鸟能举起重物？) Crane. (鹤。Crane鹤，举重机) ★A ship can contain only fifty persons. Now there is alreadyforty-nine persons in it. At thi...

1. Isn’t it wonderful? 'What are you so happy about?'a woman asked the 98-year-old man. 'I broke a mirror,' he replied. 'But that means seven years of bad luck.' 'I k...