Humors & Jokes 幽默·笑话 1
1．A correct way to ask questions 3
2．A terrible mistake! 4
3．200 dollars 6
4．Where are the trousers? 7
5．The magician Thurston 9
6．Open the door with your foot 11
7．The hole in the road 12
8．Good or bad? 14
9．Your house is on fire! 15
10．No more 16
11．Nobody's here today 18
12．Where is your dad? 19
13．A pair of old shoes 21
14．Don't you think a dead fly can fly,madam? 22
15．Each one was worse than the last one 24
16．How did you break that one? 26
17．The house is ours 27
18．How foolish you are! 29
19．The drunken father 31
20．Too many 32
21．She forgot to pull it out of the vase 33
22．SCHOOL-GO SLOW! 35
23．An expected guest 37
24．You'd better not talk with him 38
25．How lazy you are! 39
26．We have the same mother 41
27．Mr Shute 43
28．The way not to wake up the parents 44
29．The lazy brothers 46
30．What is your next wish? 48
31．Is it worth the money? 50
32．Who do you want to speak to in the office? 51
33．There was something nice in that newspaper yesterday 52
34．My dog is at home 54
35．Why does it rain on the road,too? 56
36．The coins 57
37．I don't mind it 58
38．Smoking one cigar a day almost killed me first 60
39．You must tell me about it earlier! 61
40．What's your name? 63
41．He was only wrong by two 64
42．I'll show you the way 66
43．I've locked my keys in my car 67
44．Pay for my dinner 68
45．Meals on the ship 70
46．A young officer and an oldl soldier 71
47．Two trips 73
48．Half of the cake 74
49．I don't know 76
50．Cured or killed? 78
51．An old pair of trousers 80
52．I never wear shoes 81
53．At the dinner party 83
54．I am as strong as I was in my young days 84
55．Let me stand here against him instead of you 85
56．A foolish thief 86
57．Is there any news from the river? 87
58．The best tailor 88
59．The watch 89
60．Are you stil looking for that place? 90
61．He is not a common baby 91
62．Are you really going to let me choose? 91
63．Have a baby sister next week 92
64．The great orange and the gold cup 93
65．You are a good boy today 94
66．Moving pictures 95
67．It's easy to say something,but not so easy to do it 96
68．A very funny joke 97
69．He mustn't put his feet on the seat 97
70．I've gone out in my boots 98
Short Stories 短篇故事 99
1．An interesting coincidence 101
2．An unexpected present 102
3．A traffic accident 104
4．Martin Baker 105
5．Keeping the time 107
6．Mending the shoes 108
7．Can we help you? 109
8．Danny's worries 111
9．A stranger 112
10．The gold coin for the dictionary 114
11．The first balloon in the world 116
12．Winter sleep 117
13．A paper boy 118
14．Kat and Susan 119
15．Mrs Forgetful 121
16．Two brothers 123
17．Proving himself 124
18．You'd better ask my wife 126
19．School sports meeting 128
20．The spacemen 129
21．The Titanic 131
22．The old lady's dog 132
23．Going to the cinema 134
24．The stolen money 135
25．Finding the hotel in London 138
26．Making a men 139
27．A new kind of life changed their life 140
28．A clever dog 141
29．A good job in Japan 143
30．Mail the ticket by mistake 145
31．Bill's kite 146
32．Breathing through a handkerchief 147
33．The yellow Beta 400s 149
34．The goblins in Jami's dream 150
35．Sorry to have forgotten to pay for the jacket 152
36．The number 13 153
37．It used to be a post office 155
38．Interested in making things 156
39．Mr Going-to-do 157
40．Many's birthday present 158
41．A bag of gold and a hungry man 160
42．A phone call in the middle of night 161
43．Cheating 162
44．A very strange story 164
45．Selling pies 166
46．How old are you? 167
47．A very clever way to find the thief 168
48．Play cowboys and Indians 170
49．An interesting experience 172
50．A big fire 173
51．A surprise 175
52．Why did Peter kick it weakly? 176
53．An unexpected passenger 178
54．Asking the way 180
55．Travelling by air for the first time 181
56．Tje cow in the middle of the road 183
57．Jumping the queue 184
58．Don't judge a person by his clothes 185
59．The old house 187
60．Lassie——a clever dog 188
61．A dead fly in the dish 189
62．An American girl in Beijing 190
63．Two ways to choose from 191
64．The old man's umbrella 192
65．What a lucky worm! 193
66．Enjoy your vegetables! 194
67．Your teacher 300 miles away 195
68．A lucky Japanese businessman 196
69．Tree black umbrellas 196
70．A cheap sweater 198
Stories about Famous People 名人轶事 199
1．What do his inventions mean to people 201
2．Edison's early jobs 202
3．Edison's childhood 203
4．O.Henry 204
5．James W 206
6．Helen Keller 207
7．The driver's answer 209
8．Mark Twain 211
9．Frederic Chopin 212
10．Young Tom saved his mother 214
11．Henry Ford 215
12．Maric Curie 216
Society,Customs and Culture 社会·风俗·文化 219
1．Halloween 221
2．High cost of medical care in America 222
3．The welcome mat 224
4．Talking about the weather 225
5．American high school courses 226
6．An interesting phrase 228
7．Going to college or university in the States 229
8．A special activity in Hong Kong on Children's Day 231
9．American football 232
10．The famous Mickey Mouse 234
11．Names 236
12．The changing language 238
13．Venice 239
14．Keeping pets 241
15．Sunday papers 242
16．The Chinese New Year 243
17．Public beaches in Hong Kong 245
18．Traffic in England 246
19．Weather report 248
20．Life in large Australian farms 250
21．How cities began 251
22．Foulsham House 253
23．How to write an English letter and envelope 255
24．Weather in England 256
25．New Year's Eve 258
26．A good way to make friends 259
27．What a dictionary will tell you 261
28．Secondary students run a business in Britain 263
29．Mr,Mrs,Miss and Ms 265
30．THANK YOU and EXCUSE ME 267
31．Christmas Day 268
32．Reading papers 269
33．English 270
34．Newspapers 271
35．Fast food restaurants in America 272
36．People in America 273
37．The Nobel Prize 274
38．London 275
39．How people spend their holidays in England 276
40．Great Green Wall 277
41．The Olympic Games 278
42．Different ideas about good drinks 279
Dialogues,Charts,Letters and Ads 对话、图表、书信、广告 281
1．A nice surprise for Jane 283
2．Where to stay in Boswell 285
3．Asking for a leave 286
4．A letter from Jim to Ling Feng 287
5．Obeying the traffic rules 289
6．News 290
7．Playing basketball inside 292
8．TV programmes 293
Popular Science 科普 295
1．Flying 297
2．The history of candy 298
3．The importance of having breakfast 300
4．Skin-diving 301
5．Fire 303
6．Sea horse 304
7．Writing a"secret letter" 305
8．Weather satellite 307
9．Computers 309
10．Sea 310
11．Who changes the weather? 311
12．Good study habits 313
13．Make animals work for man 314
14．Stars 315
15．Safe swimming 317
16．What makes us ill? 318
17．Ways to trun salt water into fresh 320
18．Plenty of good sleep 322
19．Reach out and touch 323
20．Bel Air 325
21．The sun 326
22．Communicating in many ways 328
23．Coral islands 329
24．Crossing the road safely 331
25．Pacemakers 333
26．Man's brain 334
27．The history of the internet 336
28．Salt 337
29．Numbers 338
30．Robots 339
31．General Sherman 340
32．Unbelievable facts about the sun 341
33．Water 342
34．Snow 343
参考答案 344