What Were You Teaching?（高一适用）

Mr Jones moved to another town, and soon he needed a new doctor, so he went to see one. He sat down in the waiting room and looked around, seeing the doctor's degree certificate on the wall. Suddenly Mr Jones remembered: there had been a classmate of his with the same name in his class at school, and he had become a doctor!     

Nervous to answer

A very strict officer was talking tosome new soldie rs whom he had totrain. He had never seen them be-fore, so he began:“My name isStone, and I’m even harder thanstone,so do what I telI you or there'll     

At the Court

A man had to go to court, and he asked his lawyer which judge would be hearing (审理) the case. His lawyer told him and asked:“Do you know him?”The man answered:“No, but I wanted to know his name so that I could send him a dozen bottles of good wine.”     

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…     

Half a Pie,Quite Enough

A man was so hungry that he was ready to eat seven pies.But he felt quite full after he had eaten six and a half.He regretted this so much that he started to beat himself,     

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 …     

底价

There was a man who loved fine art. He loved it so much that he lived for it. It had become his whole life, and had literally engulfed him. He would work really hard to save up some money, just so he could buy another piece of fine art. He would buy Rembrandt's, Picasso's and many others' works of fine art.The man had been widowed some years before but he had a son. As he raised his son, he included him in his hobby of collecting art. As his son grew, he also became a great art collector. His dad was very proud of him.Collecting fine art was something that they both loved to do and it brought them very close together.Some years passed by and their country suddenly engulfed in a war. The son, like so many other young men, enlisted and went off to serve his country. He had been gone for some time, and then it happened.     

A GOOD REMEDY

Herman had trouble getting up in the morning.so he asked hisphysician to prescribe some pills. That night he took one, sleptlike a log and was wide awake before the alarm went off.Hedressed slowly,had a leisurely breakfast,got to the office and     

Jim＇s Stomach-ache

Jim went to the doctor‘s this morning. He likesapples very much and yesterday he ate too manygreen ones, so this morning he had a stomach-ache(胃疼), When he came to breakfast he was crying.     

编辑台

Pets are wonderful creatures! I had my first when I was just a little boy;a hamster called Cloudy. He was a very talented escape artist, and figured out how to open the door of his cage. Fortunately, whenever he escaped he＇d hide in the same place, and so he was always easy to retrieve. After him we got a cat, a black and white tom called Oscar. A grumpy animal, he was also very smart - he had a catflap, and a magnetic collar that opened it, and he used to use it to let his other cat friends into the house, so that we＇d come downstairs in the morning and find two or three of them scattered around the laundry.     

An Uncommon Trip

<正>Summer holiday began and Richard left California and went traveling in Africa(1). Helost his wallet in a hotel and he had a little money left. He had to go to a city where one ofhis friends worked. There he was going to borrow some money so that he could fly back tohis country. He got on a bus and the conductor held out to him a yellow ticket.     

The Life of a Hunter

This was an important day for Alatook,an Eskimo boy.He ate his breakfastquickly.For the first time he was going to hunt seals alone.Because it was a verycold day.Alatook had to dress warmly.First he put on his fur-lined jacket.Then heput on his fur-lined mittens and boots to protect his hands and feet from the cold.Fi-nally he picked up the gun he had cleaned so carefully the day before.     

快速阅读(英文)

A father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations,he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion;and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he placed the fagot into the hands of each of them in succession,and ordered them to break it     

伊索寓言:父亲和孩子们

正Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarrelling among themselves.When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations,he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion;and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks.When they had done so,     

A Goose With Only One Leg（初三适用）

Once there was a clever farmer. Though he was poor,he decided one day to take a roast goose(烧鹅) to the king as a present. He had not had much that day, and soon the smell of the roast goose became too much for him as he carried it to the king, so he ate one of its legs.     

Have a Contest

【争当翻译家】竞赛题Ⅰ.改正下面文章中的错误When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learn to fly it. He soon became very well and made his plane to do all kinds of tricks.George had a friend. His name was Mark. Some day George offered taking Mark above in his plane. Mark thought,“I had travelled in a big plane several times,and I蒺ve never been in a little one, so I蒺ll go.”They went down, and George fly around it for half an hour and doing all kinds of tricks in the air.…     

A Strange Order

There was once a traveler. He was wet and cold because he had been riding in the rain. At last he reached a country inn(酒店). The inn was so crowded(拥挤的)with people that he could not get close to the fire, so he called     

In Tune or Not(高一适用)

My aunt Aggie used to think that she was able to sing very well.But I am sorry to say her singing was terrible.One day she asked a piano-tuner to come and tune(调音)her piano.He came,and when he tried to tune the piano it seemed to be all right.However,he thought he had better do something though he would rather have gone away.so he went over it carefully and made a very good job of it.A few days     

I''''m Just the Poor Silkworm

Mr Clark lived in a small village.He had a few pieces of land at thefoot of a mountain.He worked hard and got some money. His wife diedand left a daughter to him.The girl’s name was Linda.She was clever andgood at her lessons. Mr Clark liked her very much and tried his best tosatisfy(使满意)her.He thought he was poor just because he had littleknowledge. So he sent her to a middle school in the town after she had     

惊魂报纸

About more than a hundred years ago,a man woke up and got his newspaper from the door.He sat down to read the newspaper.To his horror and surprise,he read his name in the 1)obituary column.The newspaper reported his death by mistake.At first,he was shocked.But after some time,he figured it out and wanted to find out what people had said about him.