Nasreddin Goes Shopping

One day Nasreddin went to town to buy new clothes．First he tried on a pair of trousers．He didn't like the trousers，so he gave them back to the shopkeeper．Then he tried a robe which had the same price as the trousers．Nasreddin was pleased with the robe，and he left the shop．Before he climbed on his donkey to ride home，the shopkeeper and the shop assistant ran out．     

阅读理解二则(英文)

(A) One day, Mr Black went into a restaurant. He put his coat on achair near the door. There was nothing in the pockets of his coat. Afterhis meal he put on the coat, then he found there was much money in oneof his pockets. He immediately realized that someone else had taken hiscoat away by mistake. “Whose coat is this?”he thought. He saw a waiternear the door, so Mr Black said to him, “Somebody put a lot of money inmy coat. I have no time to wait for him. I have to go. Return it to him,please.”The waiter took the money and went away. A moment later, an-other man came with a coat just like Mr BlackKs. “IKm sorry, ” said theman. “I took your coat and you got mine. Please give me my coat and the     

The Elephant Did It!

A man was travelling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a cirus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said, “I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!” Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage.     

完形填空齐齐看

(A) Yesterday evening,when I went to town 1my mother,we met a strange old man. It was raining 2and we had no umbrella.We were trying to3a taxi when he came up to us.He was carrying a nice umbrella and he said that he would give 4for only a pound.He had forgotten his wallet.He said he needed taxi to go back home.My mother didn't believe what he had said at first,and5 him a lot of questions.But she finally believed the man and gave him the pound.She was happy to6 a good umbrella for so little.However,the old man didn't get into a taxi.We walked7 him and found he went into a pub and bought himself a glass of 8with the pound.After he drank it,he 9~his hat and took up one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one.     

英语趣味阅读2篇(英文)

Ali, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Nasreddin. Nasreddin was already in bed. “It is late,” he said. “What do you want?” “I want you to write a letter to my wife,” said Ali. Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, “Has…     

完形填空练与析(英文)

Erik was a fourteen-year-old boy.Hethought he was a young man but his par-ents didn’t think so.They told him,“Whenyou begin to think about1others,you’ll be a young man.”One morning,Erik’s parents gave him2money to buy some hamburgers.He saw an old man there.The man lookedsick.Erik went up to him and found thatthe old man had lost his3andhadn’t had4for hisbreakfast.Erik took the oldman to the nearest restaurant.5the man ordered only aglass of water for himself.Erikfelt sorry for him,so he askedthe waiter to6...     

Just Because I Know You

Dick and Robert studied in the same class four years ago. Dick liked all kinds of beautiful clothes and spent (花费) a lot of money on them. His father was a worker and he hadn't enough money to give his son. Dick had to borrow some money from his friends. At first they lent(借) some to him, but he never gave any back to them. And later nobody believed(相信) him.     

英语广角

英语幽默谚语格言趣味英语完形填空IsItfarAli, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Nasreddin.Nasreddin was already in bed.“It is late,”he said. “What do you want?”“I want you to write a letter to my wife,”said Ali. Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for …     

Sign Language

An Englishman was once travelling in Italy. He could not speak Italian. One day he went to a restaurant and sat at a table. When the waiter came, the Englishman opened his mouth, put his fingers into it, took them out again and moved his lips. By doing these he meant, "Bring me something to eat." The waiter soon brought him a cup of tea. The Englishman shook his head and the waiter understood him to say that he didn't want tea, so he took it away and brought him some coffee. The Englishman…     

JOKES

Dam Fish There was a boy standing on a corner selling fish.He was saying,"Dam fish for sale,dam fish for sale." A preacher (说教者) walked up and asked why he was calling them dam fish.The kid said," I caught them at the dam (水闸),so they're dam fish." The preacher bought some,took them home and asked his wife to cook the dam fish.His wife looked at him in bewilderment (迷惑) and said,"Preachers arent't supposed (不应该) to talk like that." The preacher explained why they were dam fish,and she agreed to cook them.     

笑话(英文)

An old lady who lived in a village went into town one Saturday, and after she had bought fruit and vegetables in the market for herself and for a friend who was ill, she went into a shop which sold glasses. She tried one pair of glasses, and then another pair and another, but none of them seemed to be right. The shopkeeper was a very patient man, and after some time he said to the old lady, "Now, don't worry, madam.     

智力测试三则(英文)

Question One: One day little Mary went to see her aunt. Her aunt asked her to take a bag of magazines back to her mother.“And these are for you,Mary.”said her aunt, putting some apples in the bag. On her way home, Mary met Jack and gave him half of the apples. As she went on, she met Peter and gave him one third of the apples left. After a while she came home and gave four apples to her younger sister Ann. In the end she found nothing but the magazines left in the bag. How many apples d…     

Stupid Orders

When Nasreddin was a boy,he never did what he was told,so his father always told him to do the opposite of what he wanted him to do.One day,when the two were bringing sacks of flour home on their donkeys,they had to cross a shallow river.When they were in the middle of it,one of the sacks on Nasreddin’s donkey began to slip,so his father said,"That sack is nearly in the water!Press down hard on it!"His father of course expected that he would do the opposite,but this time Nasreddin did what his     

Jokes

A Dirtier HandWhen he was a child, Mike did not always obey the rules of school. One day the teacher caught him breaking a rule and asked him to come up to be punished. In that school beating the palm of hand(手掌心）with a ruler was the punishment. Mike蒺s hands were very dirty, so on the way to the teacher蒺s desk, he wiped one of his hands on his coat.The teacher looked at it for a moment and said,“Mike, if you can find a dirtier hand in the class, I shall not punish you.”“Here it is…     

The Monkey and the Cat

Once upon a timethere lived two friends a cat and a monkey. One day the monkey found some chestnuts in a fire. He wanted to eat the chestnuts but he was afraid of burning his hand so he took the cat to the fire and said "Look  here is a fine dinner for us. I have found these chestnuts but your claws are sharper than mine. So if you will pull them out of the fire we will have a great dinner together."The cat agreed to it,and began to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.Shebur…     

The Cloth Is Not Enough

One day,Mr Green went into a tailor‘s shop（裁缝店） with a piece of cloth. He wanted to have the tailor make some clothes for him. He handed the cloth to the tailor, and said, “You should have brought more cloth, this is not enough. ”Mr Green had to go out, disappointed(失望地). He soon found another tailor‘s shop and went in. This tailor didn‘t think the cloth was not enough.     

开心果

The "good" lockA man wanted to buy a lock.The shop assistant showed him some, The man took up one of them and asked, "Is this lock safe?"     

But your head isn''''t the right size!

Jack wanted to buy a hat, so he went into a hat shop and said to the assistant, "I 1 a hat, please."he said. "Can I try on 2 ?"Of course, sir,"the assistant answered and he 3 several hats for Jack.Jack 4 one by one but he didn't like__5of them. "This one is too big and this one doesn't 6 very nice and this one must be too cheap.     

I Call Him Tom

A man wanted to sell his old horse, so he took him to the market. Because the horse was old, nobody wanted to buy him, but at last a young man stopped in front of him and said, "How old is he?" "He is twenty-one years old," said the older man. "Ho…     

所得税官员(英文)

Recently, I was visited by a man who said he was an "assessor", a word which I did not then understand very well. I said I had never heard of his line before, but I was pleased to see him. I asked him to sit down, and he did.I could think of nothing particular to say. So I asked him if he was opening his shop in the neighbourhood.