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...

The zoo built a special eight-foot-high enclosure for its newly acquired kangaroo, but the next morning the animal was found hopping around outside. The height of the fence was inc...

During the Gulf War，my sister，Jane，bought a flag and asked her apartment‘s maintenance man, a Vietnam vet，to install a pole for her. When she offered to pay him, he told her t...

1.To be on the Safe Side In a cinema during a performance one of the audience gets up, makes his way along the row of seats and goes out into the foyer（门厅，大厅） . A few minut...

Miss Green had a heavy cupboard in her bedroom. Last Sunday she said, “I don’t like this cupboard in my bedroom. The bedroom’s very small, and the cupboard’s very big. I’m goi...

A story around campus has it that a student once sent a telegram to his parents reading: 'Mom - flunked（不及格，失败） all courses. Kicked out of school. Prepare Pop.' Two days la...

Son: Why are hen‘s legs so short? Dad: You‘re a fool. If the hen‘s legs were too long, wouldn‘t they drop their eggs into pieces when laying? 儿子：为什么母鸡的腿这么短呢？ ...

When Jimmy was a boy, he always liked watches and clocks very much. When he was eighteen years old, he went into the army, and after a year, he began to teach himself to mend watch...

John lived with his mother in a rather big house, and when she died, the house became too big for him so he bought a smaller one in the next street. There was a very nice old clock...

Joe and Fred were helping to build a house in a village. The weather was very warm, there was a lot of dust everywhere, and by half past twelve, they were very thirsty, so they sto...