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Poet: Burglars broke into my house last night.
  
  
 Friend: Yes? What happened?
  
  
 Poet: They searched through every room, then left a $ 5 bill on my desk.
  
  
 诗人:昨晚盗贼闯进了我的房子。
  
  
 朋友:是吗?丢了什么吗?
  
  
 诗人:他们翻遍了所有房间，最后在我书桌上留下了一张5美元的钞票。
  
  
 A mother mouse and her babies were running across a floor, when they heard anoise. It was a cat. The mother mouse and her babies stood still and the mother called outlike a dog," Wow, wow!"The cat ran away. Then the mother turned to her babies andsaid,“You see, my children, how important it is to learm a second language."
  
  
 鼠妈妈和她的孩子们在房间里跑。这时，他们听到猫的叫声。鼠妈妈和小老鼠们停下来，鼠妈妈像狗一样叫起来:“Wow,wow!"猫逃跑了。鼠妈妈转过身对小老鼠们说:“孩子们，看,掌握一门外语是多么重要啊!”
  
  
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 “you think Amerian cokingng mems oeing a pockege and wsi the cnmemes inthe microwave，think again. On the one hand, its true tha Amerians hive o oldcereal for beakist, sndwiches for lumch and intant dimemn. Froum buy homemaken 10prlossional people, many Americans enjiay the converience of prepackaged meals thatcan be ready to serve in 10 minutes or less.. On the other hand, many Americans reognize the value of cooking sills Parents, espeialymothers, see the importance of train-ing their children, especially daughters, in the culinary arts. Most Americans will admitthat there's nothing better than a good home cooked meal. But with cooking, as with anyother skills, good results don't happen by accident.
  
 
  
  
 假如你以为美式烹饪就是打开一个料理盒而将里头的东西抛进微波炉加热，那你得改变想法了。从某一方面来说，美国人以早餐的冷麦片、午餐的三明治及速食晚餐而成长，这倒是真的。从忙碌的家庭主妇到上班族，许多美国人喜欢享受事先包装好的便餐所带来的方便。这些便餐在不到10分钟内就可上桌。从另一方面来说,许多美国人认同厨艺的价值。父母亲，特别是母亲，已看到训练孩子，尤其是女u,掌握烹任艺术的重要性。大多数美国人承认没有什么比得上一顿自家做的餐点。然而，谈到烹饪，一如其他的技巧，好的成果并非偶然天成的。

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The Dog And The Shadow 狗和它的影子 
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away. 
一条狗嘴里叼块肉,来到一座桥上.它看见水里有自己的影子, 以为是另一条嘴里也叼着一块比自己那块肉大一倍的狗.它忙丢下自己嘴里的那块肉,猛力地攻击水里的狗.试图去抢它的肉.结果,它两块肉都得不到. 因为那只是一个影子,它自己的影子而已.真正的肉也被水冲走了.


Which do you find more important, money or friends? 
B: Friends, of course. 
A: Why? 
B: I can always borrow money from friends. 

钱和朋友 
甲：你认为钱和朋友哪一个更重要？ 
乙：当然是朋友。 
甲：为什么？ 
乙：我总可以从朋友那儿借到钱 




.THE ANT AND THE DOVE 
蚂蚁和鸽子 


One hot day, an ant was searching for some water. After walking around for some time, she came to a spring. 

To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell into the water. 

She could have drowned if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly plucked off a leaf and dropped it into the water near the struggling ant. The ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground. 

Just at that time, a hunter nearby was throwing out his net towards the dove, hoping to trap it. 

Guessing what he was about to do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net. The dove was quick to fly away to safety. 

MORAL: One good turn deserves another. 

2.A Simple Gesture 举手之劳 

Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked Mark discovered the boy's name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history, and that he was having lots of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend. They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then Mark went home. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited senior year came and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk. 

Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. "Did you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn't want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mothers sleeping pills and I was going home to commit suicide. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more, you saved my life." 

-John W. Schlatter (true story)

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