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1. How old is she ,她多大了,
A woman was having some trouble with her heart , so she went to see the doctor . He was a new doctor , and did not know her ,so he first asked some questions, and one of them was , “How
old are you,”
“Well,” she answered , “I don’t remember ,doctor , but I will try to think .” She thought for a
minute and then said , “ Yes , I remember now doctor ! When I married , I was eighteen years old ,and my husband was thirty . Now my husband is sixty ,I know . And that is twice thirty . So I am twice eighteen . That is thirty-six , is not it ?”
2. But the Chinese Did !但是中国人的确遇到了麻烦~
One day Tom said to one of his friends , “I’m going to have a holiday in Beijing . But I don’t
speak Chinese , so I’ll go to evening classes and have Chinese lessons for a month before I go .”
He studied very hard for a month , and then his holidays began and he went to China .
When he came back a few weeks later , his friend said to him , “ Did you have any trouble
with your Chinese when you were in Beijing , Tom ?”
“No , I did not have any trouble with it ,” answered Tom . “But the Chinese did !”
3.The Thief 小偷
The police in the big city were looking for a thief . At last they caught him . But while they were taking photographs of him --from the front , from the left ,from the right ,with a hat , without a hat --he suddenly attacked the policeman and ran off. They tried to catch him , but he got away.
Then a week later the telephone rang in the police station , and somebody said , “ You are
looking for Bill Cross , are not you ?”
“Yes .”
“ Well , he left here for Waterbridge an hour ago ”
Waterbridge was a small town about 100 miles from the city . The city at once sent four different photographs of the thief to the police in Waterbridge .
Less than twelve hours later they got a phone call from the police in Waterbridge . “We have
caught the fourth this evening , we think .”
4. Small Fish 一条小鱼
One morning a man was crossing a narrow bridge when he saw a fisherman on the shady bank of the deep , smooth river under him , so he stopped to watch him quietly .
After a few minutes , the fisherman pulled his line in . There was a big , fat fish at the end of it .
The fisherman took it off the hook and threw it back into the river . Then he put his hook and line in again . After a few more minutes he caught another big fish . Again he threw it back into the water . Then ,the third time , he caught a small fish . He put it into his basket and started to get ready to go . The man on the bridge was very surprised , so he spoke to the fisherman . He said , “ Why did you throw those beautiful big fish back into the water and keep only that small one ? ”
The fisherman looked up and answered , “Small frying-pan.”
5. A Better Mailman 更好的邮递员
I worked as a mailman for a short time . However , I am afraid of dogs and I had a lot of
trouble . One day I tried to deliver some letters to a big house . I started to open the gate and all of a sudden a huge dog ran toward me . It growled and barked at me , so I threw the letters over the fence . The dog picked them up and carried them into the house . The dog was a better mailman than I was!
6.Wives 妻子
Mrs. Jones was still cleaning the house when her husband came back from work . She was wearing dirty , old clothes and no stockings , her hair was not tidy , she had dust on her face , and she looked dirty and tired . Her husband looked at her and said , “Is this what I come home to
see after a hard day’s work ?”
Mrs.Jones’s neighbor , Mrs.Smith , was there . When she heard Mr. Jones’s words , she
quickly said goodbye and ran back to her house . Then she washed , brushed and combed her hair carefully , put on her best dress and her prettiest stockings , painted her face , and waited for her husband to come back .
When he arrived , he was hot and tired . He walked slowly into the house , saw his wife and stopped . Then he shouted angrily , “And where are you going this evening ?”
7.watchdogs 看门犬
A family moved from the city to the suburbs , and were told they ought to get a watchdog to guard the houses at night . So they bought the largest dog that was for sale in the kennels of a near-by dealer.
Shortly afterwards the house was entered by burglars , who made a good haul while the dog slept . The householder went to the dealer and told him about it .
“Well , what you need now ,” said the dealer , “ is a little dog to wake up the big dog !”