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...

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...

'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 ...

My father, brother and I visited West Point to see a football game between Army and Boston College. Taking a stroll before kickoff, we met many cadets in neatly pressed uniforms. S...

A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street. 'But officer,' the man began, 'I can explain.' 'Just be quiet,' snapped the officer. 'I‘m go...

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...

'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...

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...

When Alan was young, he played a lot of football, and he was very good at it, but then he went and worked in a town, and there was no team for him there, so he stopped playing. 艾...

Three famous surgeons were bragging about their skills. 'A man came to me who had his hand cut off,' said one. 'Today that man is a concert violinist.' 'That‘s nothing,' said ano...