Mrs Harris lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she has one son. He is twenty-one and his name is Geoff. He worked in the shop in the village and lived with his mothe...

Len was thirty years old, and he had very long hair. He lived in a big city, but one year he did not find any work there, so he went to a small town and began looking for work ther...

A doctor came into the hospital ward and said to Mr. Johnson, 'I have some good news and some bad news for you.' Then Mr. Johnson said, 'Please, give me the good news first.' So th...

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...