Joe Richard finished school when he was 18, and then his father said to him, “You’ve passed your examinations now, Joe, and you got good marks in them. Now go and get some good w...

During the Gulf War，my sister，Jane，bought a flag and asked her apartment‘s maintenance man, a Vietnam vet，to install a pole for her. When she offered to pay him, he told her t...

My father, brother and I visited West Point to see a football game between Army and Boston College. Taking a stroll before kickoff, we met many cadets in neatly pressed uniforms. S...

Jimmy lives in London and he began swimming a few months ago. He liked swimming, and he often goes to the swimming-pool near his house with his mother and swims there for an hour o...

During World War II, a lot of young women in Britain were in the army. Joan Phillips was one of them. She worked in a big camp, and of course met a lot of men, officers and soldier...

It was local election time and the candidate was visiting all the houses in his area. 正值当地竞选时期，候选人到他的区域的千家万户登门拜访。 At one house a small boy answered the d...

Mrs Green was eighty, but she had a small car, and she always drove to the shops in it on Saturday and bought her food. 格林夫人80岁了，但是她有一辆小的轿车，星期六她总是开车去商店...

It‘s a night. John is looking at the sky. Tom is John‘s younger brother. He asks John 'What are you doing?' 这是一个晚上。约翰抬头看着天空。汤姆是约翰的弟弟。他问约翰：“你在干什...

Fred Williams worked in a factory with a lot of other men. They talked and laughed a lot, and at lunch time they sat together and read newspapers and laughed about the pictures in ...

Mum: Look at your socks. One is short, the other is long. You must have put on the wrong ones. 妈妈：小东，看你的袜子一只长，一只短，你肯定穿错了。 Xiaodong: I am not wrong. I look...