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初一英语趣味阅读100篇

初一英语趣味阅读1）It’s Sunday. There are many people in the bus. And an old man is looking here and there. He wants to find an empty seat. Then he finds one. He goes to it. A small bag is on the seat. And a young man is sitting beside it.“Is this seat empty?”asks the old man.“No, it’s for a woman. She goes to buy some bananas.”Says the young man.“Well,”says the old man, “Let me sit here please. When she comes back, Iwill leave here.”The bus starts.“She doesn’t come, but her bag is here. Let me give her the bag.”Then the old man throws the bag out of the bus window.The young man jumps up and shouts, “Don’t throw! It’s my bag!”( )1. The old man wants to find an empty seat _____.A. in the roomB. in the busC. beside the driverD. in a car( )2. The old man finds an empty seat. He goes there and finds there is ____ on it.A. a manB. womanC. a bagD. a coat( )3. The young man says the seat is for ________.A. a manB. a womanC. a boyD. a girl( )4. The bus starts. The old man ______.A. asks the woman to sit on the seatB. takes the bag to the womanC. throws the bag to the young manD. throws the bag out of the window( )5. The bag is ________. The young man doesn’t want the old man to throw it away.A. the wo man’sB. the old man’sC. the driver’sD. the young man’s参考答案：1-5BCBDD2）It is in autumn. A young man comes to a forest. He’s walking beside the forest. On his right is a river. On his left is the forest. Suddenly he sees two green eyes looking at him from the trees. A tiger is getting ready to jump on him.What does he do? He must jump into the river. But in the river there is a big crocodile . Its mouth is very big. The young man closes his eyes. The tiger jumps over him. And the young man opens his eyes. The tiger jumps over him. And the young man opens his eyes. The tiger is now in the mouth of the crocodile.那是一年秋天。

小学初中趣味英语阅读20篇

趣味英语阅读20篇（01）The Day Before YesterdayMark is a good student in school. But he is not clean. His face and hands are often dirty.One morning, Mark goes to school. His teacher looks at him and says, “Mark, I know what you eat for breakfast.”“What?” Mark asks.“Eggs,” says his teacher. “Your face and your mouth tell me that.”“No, sir,” Mark says. “Not today or yesterday, but the day before yesterday.”（）1.What does Mike like? Mike is ________A. cleanB. dirtyC. white（02）The Best JobBetty is a lazy girl. She doesn't study hard, and she doesn't help her mother with the housework, either."What are you going to be when you grow up, Betty?" Mother asks. "You're too lazy. No job will ever fit you.""But I know one," says the girl, "I'm going to be Father Christmas,""You want to be Father Christmas?" Mother is surprised, "But why?""Because he works only one day in a whole year."1.What does Betty want to be when she grows up? _____________________ Why?_____________________________________________________________ 2.When does Father Christmas work? _______________________________It’s time to go home now. I am on a bus on a rainy day, and a woman with a d（03）og gets on the bus. It is a big dog and its feet are not clean.I don’t want the dog to sit near me. But the woman says to the conductor（售票员）. “Oh, I pay for my dog. Can he sit here like the other people?”The conductor looks at the dog and says, “Yes, madam, but he can not put his feet on the chair.”( ) 1. I don’t want the dog to sit near me because ______.A. the dog is bigB. the dog is not cleanC. the dog has not ticket( ) 2. The meaning of the conductor’s word is _______.A. the dog’s feet are like the other peopleB. the dog must be like a manC. the dog can not sit on the chair （04）A rich man decided (决定) to give his mother a birthday present. "My present will be better than any of my brothers." he thought. He heard about an amazing (令人惊异) bird. The bird could speak five languages (语言). He bought the bird at once and sent it to his mother. It cost (花费) him 100 dollars. The day after her birthday, he called his mother. "How did you like the bird, Mom? " he asked eagerly (亲切地). His mother answered, "Well, it's delicious!"1. Does the man have any brothers?2. How much is the bird?（05）We Are Not in the ZooA woman comes into a bank with her son in her arms. The boy is only two years old. He's eating a cake.When the woman comes to one of the windows of the iron（铁）railings（栏杆）, the boy watches the teller（出纳员）carefully. Then he gives his cake to the teller. The teller smiles and shakes his head.“Oh, no, my dear. Don't do that. We aren't in the zoo.” His mother says. Then she says to the teller,“I'm sorry, please forgive my son. He has just been to the zoo.”Where does the man go with her son?__________________________________ （06）Sam is a lazy boy. One day, his mother says to him, “Sam, look your sheet（被单）. It’s too dirty. Would you like to wash it now?” Sam looks at the sheet and then says, “I don’t think it’s dirty. I can turn the sheet over. Is that all right?” Sam’s mother is very angry, “How lazy you are! I turned it over last week!”判断下列句子正(T)误(F)。

【英语笑话短文阅读】趣味英语短文

【英语笑话短文阅读】趣味英语短文英语笑话短文阅读英语笑话短文阅读英语笑话短文篇一one day, a father and his little son were going home. at this age, the boy was interested in all kinds of things and was always asking questions. now, he asked, “what“s the meaning of the word "drunk", dad" "well, my son," his father replied, "look, there are standing two policemen. if i regard the two policemen as four then i am drunk." 一天，父亲与小儿子一道回家。

这个孩子正处于那种对什么事都很感兴趣的年龄，老是有提不完的问题。

他向父亲发问道：“爸爸，‘醉’字是什么意思” “唔，孩子，”父亲回答说，“你瞧那儿站着两个警察。

如果我把他们看成了四个，那么我就算醉了。

” "but, dad," the boy said, " ther e"s only one policeman!" “可是，爸爸，”孩子说，“那儿只有一个警察呀!” 英语笑话短文篇二"I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class," observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at California State University in Los Angeles. “研究生班和本科生很容易就能区别开来,”在洛杉矶加利福利亚州立大学给我们研究生上工程学课的老师如此说. "When I say,"Good afternoon," the undergraduates respond,"Good afternoon." But the graduate students just write it down." “我说‘下午好’,本科生们回答说‘下午好’.研究生们则把我说的话记在笔记本上.” 英语笑话短文篇三George comes from school on the first of September. 9月1日，乔治放学回到家里。

关于英语趣味小短文欣赏

关于英语趣味小短文欣赏随着社会经济的发展和全球化的深入,学习者对于英语学习的要求也发生了变化。

店铺整理了关于英语趣味小短文，欢迎阅读!关于英语趣味小短文篇一While on a trip, Mom realized that she had forgotten a present for Dad's birthday.旅途中，妈妈想起她忘记给爸爸买一件生日礼物。

"That's okay," he said, "The only thing I want is for you to love, honor and obey."“没关系”，他说，“我最想要的东西是你的爱、忠贞和温顺”。

Mom pondered that idea and then replied "I'd rather buy you a gift."妈妈沉思片刻后回答说，“我宁愿给你买一件礼物”。

关于英语趣味小短文篇二after friends of mine landed at busy newwark airport, they were unable to attract the attention of any porters to help with their luggage. in desperation, the husband took out a five-dollar bill and waved it above the crowd.我的朋友们在繁忙的纽瓦克机场着陆后，他们却不能招呼到脚夫来帮他们搬行李。

无奈，丈夫拿出一张五美元的钞票在人群上面摇晃。

in an instant, a skycap was at his side. sir, observed the porter, you certainly have excellent communication skills.一个带宽边帽的人马上来到他身边。

英语趣味阅读20篇

1．Honesty诚实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 had a bad heart and died at the age of thirty. Father died of tuberculosis when he was thirty-five.”“I am very sorry,”said the manager,“we cannot insure your life as your parents were not healthy.”As the man was leaving the office, depressed, he met a clerk, who had overheard the conversation.“You must not be so frank and tell the truth,”said the clerk,“no office will insure you if you speak like that. Use your imagination a little.”The man went to another office and was shown into the manager's room.“Well, young man, how old were your parents when they died?”“Mother was ninety-three, and she died from a fall off her bicycle. Father was ninety-eight and he died while he was playing football.”判断正误，正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”。

【免费】小学三年级英语趣味阅读拓展训练(6篇附译文)

小学三年级英语趣味阅读拓展训练（6篇附译文）一、The Thirsty PigeonA PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.Zeal should not outrun discretion.口渴的鸽子有只鸽子口渴得很难受，看见画板上画着一个水瓶，以为是真的。

他立刻呼呼地猛飞过去，不料一头碰撞在画板上，折断了翅膀，摔在地上，被人轻易地捉住了。

这是说，有些人想急于得到所需的东西，一时冲动，草率从事，就会身遭不幸。

二、The Wind And The SunOne day the wind said to the sun, “Look at that man walking along the road. I can get his cloak off more quickly than you can.”“We will see about that,” said the sun. “I will let you try first.”So the wind tried to make the man take offhis cloak. He blew and blew, but the man only pulled his cloak more closely around himself.“I give up,” said the wind at last. “I cannot get his cloak off.” Then the sun tried. He shone as hard as he could. The man soon became hot and took off his cloak.风和太阳有一天风跟太阳说: “看看那个沿着路上走的人.我可以比你快让他把披风脱下来.“我们等着看吧,”太阳说, “我让你先试。

英语趣味小阅读

英语趣味小阅读1. A guy goes to visit h is grandma and he brings his friend with him.While he’s talking to his grandma, his friend starts eating the peanuts on the coffee table, and finishes them off. As they’re leaving, his friend says to his grandma, “Thanks for the peanuts.”She says, “Yeah, since I lost my dentures I can only suck the chocolate off.”一名男子带着朋友去探望他的祖母。

当他和祖母聊天时，他的朋友开始吃咖啡桌上放的花生，并把花生都给吃光了。

他们离开时，他的朋友对祖母说:“谢谢您的花生。

”结果祖母说:“唉！自从我牙齿掉光后，我就只能吮掉花生豆外层的巧克力了。

”2. A father was trying to teach his son t he evils of alcohol.He put one worm in a glass of water and another worm in a glass of whiskey. The worm in the water lived, while the one i n the whiskey curled up and died.“All right, son,” asked the father, “What does that show you?”“Well, Dad, it shows that if you drink alcohol, you will not have worms.”一位父亲打算让自己的儿子知道酒精有多么可怕。

小学英语趣味阅读：卖火柴的小女孩

这篇关于⼩学英语趣味阅读：卖⽕柴的⼩⼥孩，是特地为⼤家整理的，希望对⼤家有所帮助！ The Little Girl Selling Matches One Christmas night, it is very cold. In the cold and darkness, a girl is walking bare footed in the snow and wind. Her feet are pale and frozen.There are some matches in the pocket of her apron. "Buy matches.Please buy matches!" The little girl cries in a faint voice which nobody hears as they hurry by. She doesn't sell any matches and no one gives her a copper coin. How poor the little girl is! She is cold and hungry and shivers onward with a pale face. Snowflakes fall onto her blond hair. There are lights at all the windows. The smell of roast goose is in the street. She bears the hunger and sits down in the corner of a wall, she curls herself up in the apron. The wind is getting stronger, the snow becomes a storm, she feels colder. However she dare not return home because she didn't sell one match, so she doesn't have a penny. If she goes back, her father will beat her. What't more, her house is also cold. Her little hands are almost frozen stiff. Oh! A matchstick is useful for her. The little girl takes out a match and strikes it on the wall. The match gives out a flame. When she puts her hand over it, becomes a warm and bright flame. She seems to be sitting near a stove. The flame is so nice and warm. When she wants to stretch out her feet to warm them, the flame goes out... also the stove disappears and she sits there with a matchstick. She strikes another. The part of the wall lit up by the flame become transparent, like a thin veil. She seems to see a table cloth covering the table in a room, where there are exquisite bowls, plates and a fragrantly roasted goose. Look! The goose has a knife and fork in its back. The goose is staggering towards her. Just then, the flame goes out and the thick wall is back in front of her. The little girl strikes the third match. Following the light, she seems to reach a Christmas tree, which is so big and nice. It is bigger and more beautiful than one she has seen in a rich man's house. The tree with thousands of candles and colorful pictures is blinking at her. She holds out her hands but the match gose out. The candle lights go up and become bright stars. One of them falls down and a red ray of light streaks across the sky. "Now someone will pass away." the little girl says. She still remembers what her grandma said when she was alive. She said:"A soul will go to the heaven when a star falls down from the sky!" ... ⼩姑娘⼜擦亮⼀根⽕柴，它把四周都照亮了。

(完整版)英语趣味阅读20篇

小学科普英语趣味阅读汉语译文

小学科普英语趣味阅读汉语译文P1 fern(蕨，蕨类植物（植物，作物）r（花）s（叶子）g ht（阳光）（水）seed（种子）（花瓣）（根） stem（茎）（水果） soil（土壤，泥土）P2 植物是什么？植物是生物。

所有的生物都能生长。

大部分的生物是植物或动物。

植物用来自太阳的能量来制造自身（所需）养分。

它们的叶子就像食物工厂。

植物（通过）吸收阳光、空气和水并把他们转变成养分。

既然植物通过它们的叶子制造养分，它们就是地球上其它所有生物的（生存）基础。

P3 植物能在海洋里和陆地上生存。

它们形状不同，大小各异，小到微小的水生植物，大到参天的森林大树。

有了光和水，植物可以在任何地方生长。

问与答：1．植物用什么来制造自身（所需）养分？2．植物在哪里制造养分？P4 MINI 资料植物能生长在雪域。

植物能生长在沙漠。

睡莲生长在池塘或湖里。

P5 植物的各部分大部分植物都有根、茎和叶。

许多植物还能开花结果。

每个部分都能对植物的生存和生长发挥作用。

果实果实里包含种子。

动物吃了果实然后使种子得以传播到四面八方。

花许多植物都开花，新的种子和果实都长自花。

茎植物的茎在地面上长大。

茎为叶子输送水份和矿物质。

叶叶子从植物的茎上长出来。

叶子用阳光制造养分供给整株植物。

根植物的根长在地下。

植物的生存和生长需要水分。

根部能从泥土里吸收水分和矿物质。

P8 植物对于生命（的意义）人与动物需要氧气来生存。

绿色植物制造空气中的氧气。

植物怎样制造氧气呢？植物通过它们叶子上的小孔来呼吸。

这些孔通常位于叶子的背面。

植物吸收二氧化碳。

二氧化碳经过这些小孔进入（叶子）。

植物把阳光吸收进它们的叶子里。

这些叶子就用二氧化碳、阳光和水来制造养分和氧气。

植物从它们的叶子里将氧气释放在空气中。

（若）没有植物制造的氧气，动物们将不能在地球上生存。

P9 游戏……疑问……植物（会）呼吸吗？你会看到这一现象发生。

做些什么（步骤）：1. 采摘些大的绿叶。

2. 往托盘里倒些水，将叶子背面朝上放进托盘里。

初一年级英语趣味阅读100篇

初一英语趣味阅读1It’s Sunday. There are many people in the bus. And an old man is looking here and there. He wants to find an empty seat. Then he finds one. He goes to it. A small bag is on the seat. And a young man is sitting beside it."Is this seat empty?" asks the old man."No, it’s for a woman. She goes to buy some bananas."Says the young man. "Well," says the old man, "Let me sit here please. When she comes back, Iwill leave here."The bus starts."She doesn’t come, but her bag is here. Let me give her the bag." Then the old man throws the bag out of the bus window.The young man jumps up and shouts, "Don’t throw! It’s my bag!"< >1. The old man wants to find an empty seat _____.A. in the roomB. in the busC. beside the driverD. in a car< >2. The old man finds an empty seat. He goes there and finds there is ____ on it.A. a manB. womanC. a bagD. a coat< >3. The young man says the seat is for ________.A. a manB. a womanC. a boyD. a girl< >4. The bus starts. The old man ______.A. asks the woman to sit on the seatB. takes the bag to the womanC. throws the bag to the young manD. throws the bag out of the window< >5. The bag is ________. The young man doesn’t want the old man to throw it away.A. the woman’sB. the old man’sC. the driver’sD. the young man’s参考答案：1-5BCBDD2It is in autumn. A young man comes to a forest. He’s walking beside the forest. On his right is a river. On his left is the forest. Suddenly he sees two green eyes looking at him from the trees. A tiger is getting ready to jump on him.What does he do? He must jump into the river. But in the river there is a big crocodile . Its mouth is very big. The young man closes his eyes. The tiger jumps over him. And the young man opens his eyes. The tiger jumps over him. And the young man opens his eyes. The tiger is now in the mouth of the crocodile.那是一年秋天。

趣味英语小故事【精选5篇】

【导语】⼤多数⼩朋友都喜欢听故事，如果是英语故事的话，可以在听故事的同时学习英语知识。

下⾯是⽆忧考分享的趣味英语⼩故事【精选5篇】。

欢迎阅读参考！1.趣味英语⼩故事 A waggoner was once driving a heavy load on a very muddy road. ⼀名车夫赶着货车沿着⼀条⾮常泥泞的⼩路前⾏。

Suddenly the wheels of the wagon sank into the mire, and the horse could not pull them out. 突然，马车的轮⼦陷⼊了泥潭，马⽆法将它们拉出来。

The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules. “Hercules, help me,please,“ he said. 车夫扔下鞭⼦，跪在地上，祈求⼤⼒神出现，“⼤⼒神啊，请来帮助我。

”他说。

But Hercules appeared to him, and said, “Man, don’t kneel there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.“ ⼤⼒神出现了，却说：“朋友，⽤你的肩膀把车轮扛起来，再驱赶马拉车出来。

跪在那⾥祈求我有什么⽤呢?”2.趣味英语⼩故事 One day, Zhuang Gong, King of the State of Qi, went out in a chariot to hunt. ⼀天，齐庄公乘车外出打猎。

On the way, he saw a small insect raise both its arms, trying to stop the wheels of the chariot. Zhuang Gong of Qi was curious and asked the driver: 路上，他看见⼀只⼩⾍举起双臂，想阻挡车轮前进。

(完整版)英语趣味阅读20篇

1．Honesty诚实A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured. The manager of theoffice asked him how old his parents were when they died.“Mother had a bad heart and died at the age of thirty. Father died of tuberculosiswhen he was thirty-five.”your parents “I am very sorry,”said the manager,“we cannot insure your life aswere not healthy.”As the man was leaving the office, depressed, he met a clerk, who had overheardthe conversation.“You must not be so frank and tell the truth,”said the clerk,“no office will insure you if you speak like that. Use your imagination a little.”The man went to another office and was shown into the manager's room.“Well, young man, how old were your parents when they died?”“Mother was ninety-three, and she died from a fall off her bicycle. Father wasninety-eight and he died while he was playing football.”判断正误，正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”。

趣味英语阅读100篇

英语趣味阅读100篇1Ali, 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 workall day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter lateat 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. Nasreddinwas not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, "Has the letter got to go far?""What does that matter?" answered Ali."Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if Ihave to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it willcost you a lot of money."Ali went away quickly.2An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left. Of course, when that happened, all his friends lefthim. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles."My money has finished and my friends have gone," said the young man. "What will happen to me now?""Don't worry, young man," answered Nasreddin. "Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier."The young man was very glad. "Am I going to get rich again then?" he asked Nasreddin."No, I didn't mean that," said the old man. "I meant that youwould soon get used to being poor and to having no friends."3When Mr Jones went to restaurant one day, he left his coat nearthe door. There was nothing in the pockets of the coat when he left it,so he was very surprised when he took his coat after his meal and found the pockets full of jewelry!There was a waiter near the door, so Mr. Jones said to him, "Somebody has made a mistake. He has put some jewelry in my coat. Take it, and when he comes back, give it to him." The waiter took itand went away. Suddenly another man came in with a coat just like Mr. Jones's. "I am sorry," said this man. "I make a mistake. I took yourcoat and you have got mine. Please give me my coat and jewelry." Mr.Jones answered, "I gave the jewelry to the waiter. He will give it to you."Mr. Jones called the manager of the restaurant; but the manager said, "We have no waiters here. We only have waitresses." "You gave the jewelry to a thief!" shouted the other man. "I shall call thepolice!" Mr. Jones was frightened and paid the man a lot of money for the jewelry.4A man was travelling abroad in a small red car. One day he leftthe car and went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged.Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to circus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said, "I am very sorry! My elephant has a big,round, red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and hesat on it!" Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that hewas sorry and that he would pay for all the damage.When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers would not believe his story. They said, "You sold your new car while you were abroad and bought this old one!"It was only when man showed them the letter from the circus man that they believed him.5Nasreddin was cutting a branch off a tree in his garden. While he was sawing, another man passed in the street. He stopped and said, "Excuse me, but if you continue to saw that branch like that, you willfall down with it." He said this because Nasreddin was sitting on the branch and cutting it at a place between himself and the trunk of the tree.Nasreddin said nothing. He thought, "This is some foolish person who has no work to do and goes about telling other people what to do and what not to do."The man continued on his way.Of course, after a few minutes, the branch fell and Nasreddinfell with it."My God!" he cried. "That man knows the future!" and he ran after him to ask how long he was going to live. But the man had gone.6It was half-past eight in the morning. The telephone bell rang and Mary went to answer it."Hullo, who's that?" she asked."It's me, Peter."Peter was a friend of Mary's eight-year-old brother, Johnny."Oh, hullo, Peter. What do you want?" said Mary."Can I speak to Johnny?""No," said Mary, "you can't speak to him now. He is busy. He is getting ready for school. He is eating his breakfast. Grandmother is combing his hair. Sister is under the table, putting his shoes on.Mother is getting his books and putting them in his school bag. Goodbye,I've got to go now. I have to hold the door open. The school bus is coming."7Two rich ladies were sharing a taxi and talking about the high costof going anywhere by taxi.One of the ladies said, "Taxis are terribly expensive these days.The owners get a lot of money for nothing.""Yes," said the other lady, "and the drivers get such big tips thatthey soon become rich. They ought to be ashamed of themselves."One of the ladies was smoking a cigarette. After a minute or twoshe said to the other lady, "Can you see an ashtray in this taxi? Thereisn't one on my side."The driver, who had heard everything the ladies had said, answered, "Oh, just drop the ashes on the carpet─I have a servant who comes inand cleans three days in the week!"8Nasreddin put two big baskets of grapes on his donkey and went to market. At midday it was very hot, so he stopped in the shade of a big tree. There were several other men there, and all of them had donkeysand baskets of grapes too. After their lunch they went to sleep. Aftersome time, Nasreddin began to take grapes out of the other men'sbaskets and to put them in his.Suddenly one of the men woke up and saw him. "What are you doing?" he said angrily."Oh," said Nasreddin, "don't worry about me. I am half mad, and Ido a lot of strange things.""Oh, really?" said the other man. "Then why don't you sometimes take grapes out of your baskets and put them in somebody else's baskets?""You did not understand me," said Nasreddin. "I said that I was half mad, not quite mad."9There was a big garden near Nasreddin's house, and it had a lot offruit trees in it. One day Nasreddin saw some beautiful apples on one of them. He went home and got a ladder, put it against the high wall of thegarden and climbed up. Then he pulled the ladder up, put it down on the other side, and climbed down into the garden. Just then a gardener came round a corner and saw him."What are you doing here?" he shouted.Nasreddin thought quickly and then said, "I am selling my ladder.""Selling your ladder? In somebody else's garden? Do you think I believe such a stupid story?" said the gardener and came towards Nasreddin with a stick."It is my ladder," said Nasreddin, "and I can sell it where I like.You needn't buy it if you don't want to." And he took his ladder and climbed over the wall again.10Nasreddin woke up in the middle of the night and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be moving towards the house."That is a thief!" he thought, and he took his gun and shot at him. Then he went back to bed, because he was too frightened to go out of the house in the dark.The next morning Nasreddin went out and saw one of his white shirts hanging on the clothes-line in the garden. His wife had washed it theday before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet-hole rightthrough the middle of it."My God," said Nasreddin, "I was lucky last night. If I had been wearing that shirt, the bullet would have killed me!" And he calledhis neighbours together and asked them to thank God for saving him.11A judge was working in his room one day when a neighbour ran in and said, "If one man's cow kills another's, is the owner of the first cow responsible?""It depends," answered the judge."Well," said the man. "your cow has killed mine.""Oh," answered the judge. "Everyone knows that a cow cannot think like a man, so a cow is not responsible, and that means that its owneris not responsible either.""I am sorry, Judge," said the man. "I made a mistake. I meant thatmy cow killed yours."The judge thought for a few seconds and then said, "When I think about it more carefully, this case is not as easy as I thought atfirst." And then he turned to his clerk and said, "Please bring me thatbig black book from the shelf behind you."12When Nasreddin was a boy, he never did what he was told, so hisfather always told him to do the opposite of what he wanted him to do.One day, when the two were bringing sacks of flour home on their donkeys, they had to cross a shallow river. When they were in the middle of it, one of the sacks on Nasreddin's donkey began to slip, so hisfather said, "That sack is nearly in the water! Press down hard on it!"His father of course expected that he would do the opposite, butthis time Nasreddin did what his father had told him to do. He pressed down on the sack and it went under the water. Of course, the flour was lost."What have you done, Nasreddin?" his father shouted angrily."Well, Father", said Nasreddin, "this time I thought that I woulddo just what you told me, to show you how stupid your orders always are."13Nasreddin had lost his donkey. He was going about looking for it everywhere, and while he was looking, he was singing gaily.One of his neighbours saw him and said, "Hullo, Nasreddin. What are you dong?"I am looking for my donkey," answered Nasreddin."Don't you know where it is?" asked the neighbour."No, I don't.""Then why are you singing so gaily? Usually when somebody loses something, he is sad.""Yes, that is quite true," answered Nasreddin. "But you see, I amnot yet sure that my donkey is lost. My last hope is that it is behindthat hill over there. If you wait a little, you will hear how I willcry and complain if it is not there!"14One winter Nasreddin had very little money. His crops had been very bad that year, and he had to live very cheaply. He gave his donkey less food, and when after two days the donkey looked just the same, he saidto himself, "The donkey was used to eating a lot. Now he is quickly getting used to eating less; and soon he will get used to living onalmost nothing."Each day Nasreddin gave the donkey a little less food, until itwas hardly eating anything.Then one day, when the donkey was going to market with a load of wood on its back, it suddenly died. "How unlucky I am," said Nasreddin. "Just when my donkey had got used to eating hardly anything, it came to the end of its days in this world."15Nasreddin's wife was very ill, and at last she died. After a few months, Nasreddin married again. His new wife was a widow.Exactly seven days after he married her, she had a baby.Nasreddin at once hurried away to the market and bought some paper, some pencils, some pens and some children's books. Then he hurried back home again with these things and put them beside the baby. His new wife was surprised. "What are you doing?" she said. "The baby won't be ableto use those things for a long time. Why are you in such a hurry?"Nasreddin answered, "You are quite wrong, my dear. Our baby is not an ordinary baby. It came in seven days instead of nine months, so itwill certainly be ready to learn to read and write in a few weeks from now".16One of Nasreddin's neighbours had been abroad for many years, and during that time he had travelled in many strange places. When he came back home after many years, his old friends and neighbours listened tothe old man's stories about foreign countries and strange people, and found them very interesting."Do you know," the old man said, "in one country which I visited where the climate is very hot all the year, nobody wears any clothesat all!"Nasreddin loved a joke, so he said at once, "Oh, is that so? Thenhow do you know whether somebody is a man or a woman in the country?"17Some of Nasreddin's old friends were talking about the young people in their town. They all agreed that old people were wiser than young people. Then one of the old men said, "But young men are stronger than old men."All of them agreed that this was true, except Nasreddin. He said, "No. I am as strong now as when I was a young man.""What do you mean?" said his friends. "How is that possible? Explain yourself!""Well," said Nasreddin, "in one corner of my field there is a rock. When I was a young man I used to try to move it, but I couldn't becauseI was not strong enough. I am an old man now, and when I try to move it, I still cannot."18One day a beautiful young lady went to a famous artist and said,"I want you to paint a picture of me. How much will it cost?""Five hundred pounds," said the artist."Oh?" said the lady. "That is a lot of money." Then she thoughtthat, as she had a very beautiful body, the artist might be happy topaint her picture more cheaply if she wore no clothes while he was painting it. So she said, "And how much will it cost if you paint me without any clothes on?"The artist thought for a moment. "One thousand pounds," he then said. "But I shall have to keep my socks on, because my feet get cold;and I shall have to wear something to put my brushes in."19Henry and Mary had just got married, and everybody was enjoying their wedding party. There was plenty to eat and plenty to drink, and everybody was getting very merry, when a very thin, very young man came into the room. He looked at Mary sadly and accusingly, walked slowly towards her, kissed her lovingly and said, "Why did you do it?"Then he walked to the door and disappeared.Nobody had ever seen the young man before-not even Mary.20The Second World War had begun, and John wanted to join the army, but he was only 16 years old, and boys were allowed to join only if they were over 18. So when the army doctor examined him, he said that hewas 18.But John's brother had joined the army a few days before, and the same doctor had examined him too. This doctor remembered the older boy's family name, so when he saw John's papers he was surprised."How old are you?" he said."Eighteen, sir," said John."But your brother was eighteen, too," said the doctor. "Are you twins?""Oh, no, sir," said John, and his face went red. "My brother is five months older than I am."21One day a big ship hit a smaller ship while they were both goingfrom England to America. The smaller ship was badly damaged, and hadto be taken back to England, where a judge had to decide who was to blame for the accident.Several of the people who had seen the big ship hit the smallerone said that, a few seconds before the accident, the big ship hadsent a signal to the smaller one. The judge was puzzled b y this, sohe said, "Who sent this signal?"A young signalman came forward and said, I did, sir.""Oh?" said the judge. "And what signal did you send to the other ship?"The young signalman's face went red as he answered, "Good luck on your voyage."22Mr. Jones was very fond of climbing mountains, so one year he went to Switzerland for his holidays. After he had climbed some easy mountains, he decided one day to climb a more difficult one; but he did not want to go up it alone, so he found a good Swiss guide, who hadoften climbed that mountain.At first it was not a difficult climb, but then they came to a place which was not so easy. The guide stopped, turned round and warned Mr. Jones. "Be careful here," he said. "This is a dangerous place. You can easily fall, and if you do, you will fall straight down a very longway. But," he continued calmly, "if you do fall here, don't forget tolook to the right while you are going down. There is a quite extraordinarily beautiful view there─much more beautiful than theone you can see from here."23A young father was visiting an older neighbour. They were standing in the older man's garden and talking about children. The young man said, "How strict should parents be with their children?"The older man pointed to a string between a big strong tree anda thin, young one."Please untie that string," he said. The young man untied it, andthe young tree bent over to one side."Now tie it again, please," said the older man. "But first pull the string tight so that the young tree is straight again."The young man did this. Then the older man said, "There. It is the same with children. You must be strict with them, but sometimes you must untie the string to see how they are getting on. If they are notyet able to stand alone, you must tie the string tight again. But whenyou find that they are ready to stand alone, you can take the string away."24Mrs Smith was looking out of her window, when she saw a truck and a big car hit each other. She ran out to help. There was only one manin the truck and one woman in the car, and neither of them was hurt,but the car was damaged.The lady looked very white and her hands were shaking, so Mrs Smith invited her into her house and gave her some tea. She was a pleasant woman of about 50 years old. She drank the tea and soon looked much better. Then she said to Mrs Smith, "Have you got a telephone, please?I would like to telephone my husband. We have a kind of custom─whenever I have an accident with the car, I telephone him."25The zoo had big baskets for rubbish, where people who bought ice- creams and other things could throw the papers from them. One Saturday afternoon Mr Brown was walking near the cages where the lions andtigers were kept. Usually there were a lot of people round these cageson a Saturday afternoon, but that day there was nobody there. Mr Brown was surprised. But he was even more surprised when he saw a crowd around the rubbish basket near the lions' cage.He went towards the crowd. Most of them were children. He looked over their heads and saw─a little mouse, which was running aboutamong the pieces of paper in the basket and looking for bits of food.It was only a few centimetres from the children, but it was notafraid─and the children were more interested in this small, common mouse than in the lions and tigers.26One day a lady saw a mouse running across her kitchen floor. Shewas very afraid of mice, so she ran out of the house, got in a bus andwent down to the shops. There she bought a mouse-trap. The shopkeeper said to her, "Put some cheese in it, and you will soon catch that mouse."The lady went home with her mouse-trap, but when she looked in her cupboard, she could not find any cheese in it. She did not want to goback to the shops, because it was very late, so she cut a picture ofsome cheese out of a magazine and put that in the trap.Surprisingly, the picture of the cheese was quite successful! Whenthe lady came down to the kitchen the next morning, there was a pictureof a mouse in the trap beside the picture of the cheese!27When Nasreddin's first wife died, he married again. His second wife was much younger than he was and they often quarrelled. One evening when Nasreddin came home very late, his wife said to him, "I cooked your dinner two house ago. It is quite spoiled now." She was so angry thatshe gave him a push, and as she was strong, and he was old and weak, he fell down the stairs.One of Nasreddin's neighbours, who was always eager to know what was happening in everybody else's house, was listening, and when she heard the noise that Nasreddin made when he fell down the stairs, she came to his front door and knocked."What has happened?" she said."My coat fell down the stairs," he answered."But a coat would not make so much noise!" the neighbour said."Of course it would," answered Nasreddin, "if I was inside it!"28One of Nasreddin's rich neighbours gave a big party one evening,but he forgot to invite him. Nasreddin waited and waited, but no invitation came, so at last, when the party had already begun, he tooka piece of paper, folded it, put it in an envelope and took it to his neighbour's house."I have a very important letter for the host," he said to theservants at the door. The servants took him into the big room where everybody was eating, Nasreddin gave the letter to his rich neighbourand at once sat down and began to fill his mouth with food.The host looked at the envelope, but there was nothing on it, sohe said, "Are you sure that this letter is for me? There is no addresson it.""Oh, yes," said Nasreddin, "and there is no writing inside iteither─because it was prepared in a hurry."29One evening there was a big dance at the hotel in our town. One of the guests at the dance was a man of about forty who thought he was so handsome that every girl who saw him would fall in love with him. Atthe beginning of one of the dances, he saw a pretty young woman who was standing beside an older lady at the edge of the dance-floor. He wentup to the girl and asked her to dance. She had seen him dancing before,so she knew that he was a good dancer, and as she too liked dancing,she accepted.After they had danced several dances together, the man led her into the garden and said, "Do you tell your mother everything that you do?""Of course not," she answered sweetly. "She does not mind what Ido now. But my husband always wants to know!"30John liked to wear his hair very long. Some of his friends thought thatit looked like a girl's hair, but they never made jokes about it,because John was a big, strong young man and he did not think jokes about his hair funny.John always went to the barber's twice a month to have his haircut and washed, and one day the barber said to him, "Now why don't you let me cut most of this hair off and make your head tidy? Nobody would recognize you if I did that, I am sure."John said nothing for a few seconds, and then he said, "Perhaps you are right─but I am sure that nobody would recognize you either if you did that to my hair."31On Saturday mornings our cinema shows films for children. One such morning an old man took his grandchildren to the cinema. At the door there was a list of the prices of tickets, but he could not see anyprice for tickets for adults for Saturday mornings. The only pricewhich was shown for that time was for children's tickets, so he asked the lady who was selling the tickets how much it was for adults."Adults!" she said. "No, we don't have prices for tickets for adultsfor our Saturday morning films. Any adult who is brave enough to go in there to see films like that─and with all those children─can go infree!"32A small talking dog was a big success when it came to our theatre.It told jokes, sang songs and did a lot of other funny things on the stage.But while it was singing one of its songs, a bigger dog came intothe theatre, stopped, listened for a few moments and then ran up and jumped on to the stage. The small talking dog tried to get away, butthe bigger dog caught it by the skin of its neck and carried it offthe stage. Just as the two animals were disappearing behind the curtainsat the side of the stage, the small talking dog said, "I am sorry about this, everybody! This is my mother. She doesn't want me to be an actor. She wants me to become a doctor."33Mrs Robinson always seemed to be ill and unhappy. She often had painful headaches, and medicines did not seem to make her any better,so at last her husband took her to a good doctor.The doctor examined her carefully and asked her a lot of questions. Then he suddenly put his arms around her and gave her a big kiss. Mrs Robinson at once looked better and happier."You see?" said the doctor to her husband. "That is all she needs.I suggest that she has the same thing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday," and he smiled."Well," said Mr Robinson, "I can bring her on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but not on Saturdays, because I always go sailing on that day."34A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a big square,and said to the driver, "Do you see that young man at the other side ofthis square?""Yes," said the taxi-driver. The young man was standing outside a restaurant and looking impatiently at his watch every few seconds."Take me over there," said the young lady.There were a lot of cars and buses and trucks in the square, sothe taxi-driver asked, "Are you afraid to cross the street?""Oh, no!" said the young lady. "But I am three-quarters of an hour late. I said that I would meet that young man for lunch at one o'clock,and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at leastseem as if I have tried not to be too late."35Mr Robinson worked in an office. Every morning he had breakfast with his wife at half-past seven, read his newspaper, drank a cup ofcoffee and then left his house at 8 o'clock to go to catch his trainto town.One morning he was still sitting comfortably at the breakfast tableand reading his newspaper at five minutes past eight. He did not seemto be in a hurry and asked his wife for another cup of coffee."Another cup?" she asked. "But aren't you going to the office today? Have you got a holiday?""The office?" he said and looked up from his newspaper very surprised. "I thought that I was at the office!"36Mr Black gave his wife money every Friday evening, but she always spent it before the next Wednesday, so that for the next three days shehad none.Every Tuesday evening Mr Black asked her, "But what did you spend all that money on?" and she always answered, "I don't know."One Friday Mr Black brought home an exercise book and a pencil and gave them to his wife with her money. "Now look!" he said to her. "When you get money from me, write it down on this page, and on the opposite page write down what happens to the money."When Mr Black came home the next Tuesday, his wife came to him and showed him the book. "I have done what you told me," she said happily.On one page she had written "Friday, 28th June. I got ￡18 from John"; and on the opposite page, "Tuesday, 2nd July. I have spent it all."37A letter to a magazine:"Dear Sirs,。

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想想以下这些说法吧：“我的女老板不提拔我，因为我漂亮”;“一个诡计多端的恶女人偷走了我的男人”;“我没有女性朋友，因为我喜欢穿短裙”;“女人恨我，因为我太美了”。

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I am a feminist, so I should deny that any of this goes on, right? I should believe women are amazing and we all support each other without question. We are paragons of virtue, models of kindness. The day I became a feminist was the day I realised that all those snide insinuations that we are our own worst enemies were just patriarchal nonsense designed to keep us down.我是一个女权主义者，因此我应当否认这些现象的存在，不是吗?我应该相信，女性都很了不起，总是无条件地支持彼此;我们是道德典范、善心大使。

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