During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director, "What is the criterion（标准） that defines a patient to be institutionalized?&quo...
A friend of mine was giving an English lesson to a class of adult who had recently come to live in the United States. After placing quite a number of ...
Two friends were having lunch at a café in new York's Grand Central Terminal.They noticed a man sitting alone at an adjoining table. When t...
A middle-aged couple went to the gallery.The wife who was nearsighted, stood in front of a mirror at the entrance, which she thought that it was a pic...
A man was reading a newspaper at a table, when his wife suddenly came to him and hit him on the back. The man was very surprised and asked: "Why ...
When I was waitting in line at the bank , I noticed a woman holding a small child at one of the windows. The boy was eating a roll, which he thrust at...
The school girl was sitting with her feet streched far out into the aisle, and was busily chewing gum, when the teacher espied her. "Mary!" ...
Looking very unhappy, a poor man entered a doctor's consulting-room."Doctor," he said, "you must help me. I swallowed a penny about...
A rich man and his wife went into a shop to buy a bracelet. Neither of them was very young.They looked at a lot of beautiful bracelets, and after half...
In order to prevent myself from being burnt by the hot sun in summer, I talked again and again with my husband that we should buy a car of our own.In ...