On the first day of college, the Dean addressed the students, pointing out some of the rules: "The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all...
"I'd like you to come right over," a man phoned an undertaker（承办人）, " and supervise the burial of my poor, departed wife."&quo...
Things were really getting worse after the war. Life became so difficult that a lot of people lived in want（在贫困中）.A newspaper had published an adverti...
A sailor was the only survivor of the shipwreck.He had to stay on a desert island for three years.One day he was very pleased to find a ship anchored ...
A famous lawyer always lectured his office boy. He thought it was good for the boy although he didn't need it.One day it happened that the lawyer ...
A man took his son to have an aching tooth pulled by the dentist. When it had been drawn, the man was asked to pay ten dollars for it."Ten dollar...
A man was getting very absent-minded. One evening he went to visit a friend and chatted with him for about two hours.When he was going to leave, his f...
A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured. The manager of the office asked him how old his parents were when they died."Mother h...
A gambler carried $1000 from home and went to casino. A few hours later, he came back. His wife asked him immediately: "Does that big note give b...
It was a very hot day in the middle of summer, and there no trees along the street.Mr Smith closed his shop at half past five, went out into the stree...