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 ...

  Failure in a Test 考试不及格 Mother: Why did you get such a low mark on that test? 妈妈:这次测试你为什么得这么低的分？ Kid: Because of absence. 孩子:因为缺考。...

  Where It Should Be Plugged 插在何处 A mother is very good at using every chance to educate his son, who was only three years old. 一位母亲十分擅长利用每一个机会教...