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• 1.Demades and his fable
• Demades the orator was once speaking in the assembly at Athens; but the people were very inattentive to what he was saying, so he stopped and said, Ge...
• 2.Whose horse
• Once a neighbor stole one of Washington's horse. Washington horse back. But the neighbor refused to give the horse back. He said that it was his horse...
• 3.皮特写给朱莉的一封信
• My wife got sick. She was constantly nervous because of problems at work, personal life, her failures and problems with children. She has lost 30 poun...
• 4.Swear not to come again
• One day, the French famous writer Tristan Bernard went to a restaurant for dinner. But he was not very satisfied with the food. Bring the manager. He ...
• 5.To the point
• Author James Thurber depended on words for entertainment. He told me once about a trick he played on a nurse during one of his hospital stays. He aske...
• 6.Hat and Head
• Andersen(1805-1875) live very simply. He often wore an old hat when he went out. Once someone in the street laughed at him, What's that on your head. ...
• 7.I am illiterate too
• Once Albert Einstein, the world-famous scientist, was traveling by train. At dinner time he went to the dining car. Menu in hand, he suddenly readlize...
• 8.The secret of success
• A young man once asked Albert Einstein what the secret of success was. The great scientist told him that the secret of success was hard work. A few da...
• 9.Picasso portrayed the thief
• One day, a thief broke into Picasso's home. The housekeeper caught sight of the thief the moment he ran away. She picked up the pencil and paper to sc...
• 10.Only one artist in the family
• When Pable Picasso was a little boy, he lived in a small town in Spain. His mother liked to call him Piz. It is the Spanish word for pencil. As a baby...