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...

A boy was wondering about a photograph in a newspaper. It showed a group of happy and cheering children carrying schoolbags with the caption at the bottom: 'On Their Way To School...

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...

Mr Johnson was a rich old man. He lived in a beautiful house in the country with lots of servants, but his wife was dead, and he did not have any children. 约翰逊先生是一个非常富有...

'My friend, I say I had some trouble.' A man said to his friend,' yesterday I had words with my wife. After that she punched the door and rushed out angrily with the word that she ...

Two attorneys went into a restaurant and ordered two drinks. Then they brought out sandwiches from their briefcases and started to eat. The owner marched over and told them, 'You c...

Once, late at night, an Englishman came out of his room into the corridor of a hotel and asked the servant to bring him a glass of water. The servant did as he was asked. The Engli...

A couple had been married for 25 years and were celebrating their 60th birthdays, which fell on the same day. 一对结婚25周年的夫妻在庆祝他们六十岁的生日。他们恰好在同一天出生。 Dur...

Mother: Mary, why do you yell and scream so much? Play quietly like Eddie. See, he doesn‘t make a sound. Mary: Of course he doesn‘t. Mom, it‘s part of the game we are playing. H...

'We‘re getting close to President Obama‘s first 100 days in office, and he has had to deal with a lot of trouble, including a global financial crisis, pirates, and swine flu. Plu...