1 作文课The Composition Class
The students in the composition class were assigned the task of writing an essay on "The Most Beautiful Thing I Ever Saw". The student who，of all the members of the class，seemed the least sensitive to beauty, handed in his paper first with astonishing speed. It was short and to the point. He had written: "The most beautiful thing I ever saw was too beautiful for words.”
2 我是个单身汉I'm a bachelor
Jack fell off his bicycle and got hurt. A beautiful young nurse asked him to fill forms. Jack finished them and gave them back.
"Anything else?" The nurse asked. "Yes," Jack thinks for a while and said "I'm a bachelor."
3 父亲的亲笔签名Father's John Hancock
3 父亲的亲笔签名Father's John Hancock
Teacher: Tom, you haven't shown your parents the examine papers， have you?
Tom：Yes, I have，sir.
Teacher: But I can't find your father's John Hancock on papers at all.
Tom: Here, sir. (Showing his whipped arms to the teacher.）
4 倔强的马A Stubborn Horse
The great novelist had gone mad, but now there seemed to be some hope for his recovery. For six months, he had been sitting at his typewriter pounding out a novel. Finally, he pronounced it completed and brought the book to his psychiatrist, who eagerly began reading it aloud:
"General Jackson leaped upon his faithful horse and yelled, 'Giddyap, giddyap, giddyap, giddyap"' The doctor thumbed through the rest of the manuscript." There's nothing here but 500 pages of giddyaps!" he exclaimed.
"Stubborn horse," explained the writer.
5 小小的意外A Small Surprise
When his wife was expecting their third child, a father decided to tell his two sons, ages seven and nine, the facts of life. He checked out several books from the library on how parents should approach the subject. After stumbling through an explanation, he took a deep breath, and said, "Now, boys, do you have any questions?"
"Yes," the younger boy answered immediately.
"Go ahead," said the man, his heart in his throat.
"Can we," his son asked, "have new baseball gloves?"
6 电话交谈A Talk on the Phone
I teach computer courses, and my students often call me at home with questions. One morning I was on the phone, explaining in computer language the solution to a problem, while a repairman was fixing my refrigerator. After an endless stream of "C colon, back- slash, greater than, cd, backslash, DOS, 0 colon" and so on, I hung up and found the repairman staring at me. "Lady," he asked, are you a spy?"
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选择“don't run on pages on this domain”
