英语小故事

Who deserves help?

Many years ago, there lived a very rich man who wanted to do something for the people of his tow n. But first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. So he placed a very large stone i n the center of the main road into town. Then he hid behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man ca me along with his cow. "Who put this stone in the center of the road?" said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and conti nued on his way. Another man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone in the center of the road, but not one of them tried to remo ve it. Late in the afternoon, a young man came along. He saw the stone and said, "The night will be very dark. Some neighbor will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone. "

The young man then began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his strength to move it to one side. But imagine his surprise when under the stone he found a bag full of money and thi s message: "This money is for the thoughtful person who removes this stone from the road. That p erson deserves help."

The boss

There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There were three parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000.

The customer asked the owner,

“How come this guy is $5,000? That‟s so expensive for this kind of parrot.”

The owner said, “Because I have trained him and he can talk.”

So the customer asked him, “How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?”

The owner said, “Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing actions,like dancing and so on. That‟s why he‟s so expensive.”

Then the customer said, “How about the third one? What can he do that makes him so expensive ”

The owner of the shop said, “I don‟t know. Normally, I have never heard

him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him “The Boss.”

A mistake

A Mistake An American, a Scot and a Canadian were killed in a car accident. They arrived at the gates of heaven, where a flustered St. Peter explained that there had been a mistake. "Give me $5

00 each," he said, "and I'll return you to earth as if the whole thing never happened." "Done!" sai

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e American. Instantly, he found himsel

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g unhurt near the scene. "Where are the other s?" asked a medic. "Last I knew," said the American, "the Scot was haggling price, and the Cana dian was arguing that his government should pay."

Matt

Matt and his wife lived in the country. Matt was very stingy and hated spending money. One day a fair came to the nearby town. “Let‟s go to the fair, Matt,” his wife said, “We haven‟t been anywhere for a long time.” Matt thought about this for a while. He knew he would hav e to spend money at the fair. At last he said, “All right, but I‟m not going to spend much money. We‟ll look at things, but we won‟t buy anything.”

hey went to the fair and looked at all the things to buy. There were many things Matt‟