A ＂Kind＂ Lawyer

One afternoon,a wealthy lawyer was riding in the back of his limousine(大型的豪华轿车)when he saw two men eating grass by the road side.He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate(调查)."Why are you eating grass?"he asked one man."We don't have any money for food,"the poor man     

FUNNY STORIES

A Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人) .Both of them loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught the servant who was just doing that.     

Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp

Mansur was a magician.He lived in Africa. He read in one of his magic books about a wonderful lamp hidden in a hole in the ground in China.Aladdin and his mother lived in China.They were very poor:They lived in a hut and often had not enough food to eat.One day Aladdin's mother said,"Go out into the field and get some flowers;we will sell the flowers and get money to buy food."So Aladdin went into a field to get flowers.Now the place where the lamp was hidden was in a hole in that field.     

He Doesn't Agree to Work for You

趣味阅读理解(初三适用) Mr White lived in a small village.The far-mers worked hard all the time,but the fieldswere poor and the weather was bad,so they wereall short of money and food. Once Mr White went to town.It was veryhard for him to carry the wood to the market buthe sold it at only two dollars and he couldn't buya bottle of medicine for his wife with the money.     

苏格拉底

Socrates was born in Athen,Greece.He was one of the wisest and bravest teachers in the world.All his life he was poor because he never asked his pupils to pay for what he taught them.He taught for the love of wisdom,not for money.Unlike other philosophers,Socrates was interested in how ordinary people ought to behave and think.He did not just tell his pupils what he thought they should do,in face,he was fond of saying that he himself knew nothing.Instead,he would talk about their answers and make them talk too.     

名人逸事

A Thomas Edison lost the first job.For the next five years he went around the country from job to job.At last Edison went to New York.He had little money.He could not buy enough food to eat.He had no place to sleep. For many years Edison looked for work.He was hungry.At last he found work fixing machines.He could fix the old machines.He also made new ones.The head man liked Edison's new machines.He was going to give Edison $ 40,000 for them.Edison would have money to do what he wanted.     

Walter Raleigh and Smoke

Doctors tell us not to smoke,but a lot of people smoke tobacco every day.Long ago,no one in England smoked but the Americans did.Walter Raleigh was a famous man, in the days of Queen Elizabeth.He traveled widely and learned to smoke.Then he returned to Egland,but he did not stop smoking.He smoked secretly in his room.When anyone came in,he quickly put his pipe away,but one day he was not quick enough.A man came in and found smoke in his room.More smoke was coming from Raleigh.He ran out of the house and told evrybody about it.     

一杯牛奶的恩惠

Once,there was a poor boy,who made a living by selling various things from door to door.This was the way he earned money to pay for his school. One day,as he was walking from house to house as usual,he felt very hungry and weak.He decided to ask for food at a house.He knocked on the door,and was surprised to see a beautiful young girl open the door.And then,he asked the girl for a glass of water.     

完形填空专项训练

一"UNGRATEFUL GUEST" Among the soldiers of King Philip there was a poor man who had done brave deeds. He had (1) the king in more ways than one, and so the king put (2) trust in him. One day (3) was on board of a ship at sea (4) a great storm came up. The winds drove the ship upon the (5) , and it was hroken into pieces. The soldier would have died there, (6) it not been for the kind care of a farmer who lived close by. When the soldier was (7) enough to go home, he thanked the farmer for what he had done,and     

一罐金子(英文)

Once a farmer was put in prison. Even though(即使)this farmer was in prison,he wasn't a bad man. He hadn't done anything wrong. At this time the king's men were collecting money. The king needed money so that he could fight wars and the people had to pay a lot of taxes(税). Now this farmer didn't have any money. He told this to the king's men. When they came to his house,he said,"I can't give you any money. I am such a poor man that I've hardly got enough to live."The king’s m en laughed. …     

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     

STORIES ABOUT FAMOUS PERSONS

A story About Mozart One day Mozart saw an old man playing the violin at the street corner.He found that the old man was playing one of his compositions (乐曲).The old man played for some time,but the cap in front of him was still empty-nobody put any money into the cap.Mozart asked the old man," Do you often play compositions by Mozart?" The old man answered." Now everybody knows Mozart and likes his compositions.""Do you make a living by playing the violin?" The old man said he did.Mozart took over the violin from the old man and began to play.     

初三英语Unit 24目标检测题

听力部分(20分) Ⅰ.对话理解。根据所听对话和问题。选择正确答案。(10分) 1. A. For 4 days. B. For 3 days. C. For 2 days. 2. A. He was turning on the light. B. He was looking for the book. C. He was reading in poor light. 3. A. Their favourite food. B. The radio programme. C. The weather.     

I Want to Be a General

趣味完形填空(初三适用) 根据短文内容,在每个空白处填写一个适当的词: Mr Smith lived in a small house all aroundthe high(1)_.As a poor farmer,he was(2)_ on the farm all his life.His wish wasto get enough food for his family.He got up(3)_ in the morning and went to bed late atnight.He even didn't have any(4)_ tochatter(聊天)with others.Of course he never     

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     

An Unforgettable Teacher

Time and tide wait for no man.It is not long before the school started and it is sad for me to think of leaving the school and the teachers soon.In the past three years,I have had a very great time.I won’t forget his loud voice in class.He was the first one to arrive at the classroom.He always spent his free time finishing his task and teaching us knowledge.He gave us suitable homework every weekday.He was never late for class.He was very responsible to us.And he never gave up on     

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.     

Before the Trouble Starts

A man went into a bar,sat down, called the barman and said to him, "Give me a drink before the trouble starts."The barman was busy with other people, so he did not say anything. He gave the man the drink,and the man drank it quickly.Then he put his glass     

斯科特医生

Jim was in despair.Nothing was going right for him at the hospital.He had been strongly criticized.mainly for the mistake he made when called out to assist at a birth.He suspected that he was no longer trusted at the hospital and he decided to change his iob.As a result of reading an advertisement.he was able to arrange an in- terview with a doctor who was looking for a part- ner.The doctor.whose name was Scot,lived in Thorby,a small town in the North of England.     

幽默三则(英文)

1. Why Do You Never Phone Me?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 once worked in a shop in the village and lived with his mother, but then he got a job in a town and lived there. Its name is Greensea. It is quite a long way from his mother's village, and she was not happy about this, but Geoff said,“There isn't a good job for me in the country, Mother, and I can get a lot of money in Greensea and send you some every week.”