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...

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...

Joe Richard finished school when he was 18, and then his father said to him, “You’ve passed your examinations now, Joe, and you got good marks in them. Now go and get some good w...

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...

One of Harry’s feet was bigger than the other. “I can never find boots and shoes for my feet,” he said to his friend Dick. 哈里的一只脚比另一只大。“我永远也找不到适合我脚的靴子...

Bruce was an Australian and worked for a newspaper in Sydney. Then he thought, “I want to see Europe, so I’ll go to England and work for a newspaper there for a few years.” 布鲁...

Mrs Jones did not have a husband, but she had two sons. They were big, strong boys, but they were lazy. On Saturdays they did not go to school, and then their mother always said, ...

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...

Mary was an English girl, but she lived in Rome. She was six years old. Last year her mother said to her, “You’re six years old now, Mary, and you’re going to begin going to a s...

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...