Red Flowers原版英文小故事内容： “What are these flowers doing here?” Anita asked as she was about to sit in the car’s passenger seat. The towel that covered the leather seat had a couple of small red flowers sitting in a crease. The flowers appeared as she straightened out the towel before she sat down. She always straightened out the towel before sitting down, because Logan sometimes left

The Starbucks Robbery原版英文小故事内容： It is a crime that is getting to be common in Los Angeles. Customers are enjoying their meals at a restaurant. Two or more criminals stroll in and start waving their guns at everyone. They demand that everyone put their wallets or empty their purses into a bag, and then the gunmen stroll out. They usually wear hoodies or baseball caps with sunglasse

The Argument (1)原版英文小故事内容： Lulu didn’t want to go to the play. This Wednesday was going to be very busy. She had realty meetings and clients to drive around. Called “Narnia,” the play was based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. It was a musical. “You know that I don’t like musicals,” she told Walt. “I can never understand what they’re saying when they sing, and the music is not that goo

The Argument (2)原版英文小故事内容： Walt finally called Lulu at 6:55 p.m. “You were right, honey,” he said. “The music is not very good. So let’s not go to the play, if that’s all right with you.” That was great, she said. “So, let’s go to a movie,” she suggested. “A movie? When?” “Right now!” she said. She was all dressed up, and she was ready to go somewhere! But he wasn’

The Toilet Tank (1)原版英文小故事内容： Stanley had just finished brushing his teeth. He noticed water flowing into the toilet bowl. That's strange, he thought. The water continued to seep into the bowl. Stanley lifted the toilet tank top. The tank was half full, but the water was slowly rising. What in the world is going on, he wondered. He had not just flushed the toilet. He continued to

The Toilet Tank (2)原版英文小故事内容： Henry went out to the front of the apartment building and turned off the main water valve. No one was home in the building except Stanley, so Henry didn’t have to warn the neighbors about the shutoff. Back in the bathroom, Henry flushed the toilet. Then he used a couple of rags to dry and clean the bottom of the toilet tank. He unscrewed the plastic F

Santa Claus原版英文小故事内容： At a popular mall in Dothan, Alabama, Santa Claus asked a 33-year-old woman, sitting on his lap, what she wanted for Christmas. She said she wanted him! “I couldn’t believe it,” said Paul Moyer, 65 years old. “I figured that I misheard her, so I asked her again. She didn’t say ‘Yule’; she said ‘You’—meaning me!” And then she started groping Santa. She p

Fire Kills Two Young Girls原版英文小故事内容： Two sisters, four and six years old, died in a late-night fire that started because of an overloaded power strip. The girls were in an unattached garage that had been illegally converted into an apartment. The new apartment did not conform to Los Angeles City building codes. “Such illegal apartments are becoming an epidemic in LA,” said Mayor G

Fire-Starters原版英文小故事内容： Police arrested five young men for setting the Malibu Canyon fire that recently destroyed 53 homes, resulted in the temporary evacuation of 12,000 people, and burned 5,000 acres of woodland. The fire began in a small public park that prohibited alcohol and fires. The men, with seven friends, were drinking beer and wine; a campfire helped keep them warm that

Get out of "Jail" (1)原版英文小故事内容： Oh, the joy! The absolute joy! Archie couldn’t remember a recent moment when he had felt so happy. If he could sing, he would have sung. If he could dance, he would have danced. If he could have shouted to the world, he would have shouted to the world, “I’m free, I’m free!” He had been in “jail” for the last week. A mental jail, to be sure, but

Get out of "Jail" (2)原版英文小故事内容： On Monday and Tuesday, Archie got the same recording. He had now escaped jury duty for three days, Monday through Wednesday. Only two days to go. Wednesday afternoon, his friend Gil called, asking Archie if he wanted to play golf the next morning. Archie said he was on jury duty that week. Gil said, “Well, no problem! It’s already Wednesday. You

New Year Celebrations原版英文小故事内容： Different countries and cultures celebrate the new year in different ways. Many countries still follow the lunar calendar, meaning that their new year often starts in late January or in February. New Year celebrations for some countries (like China, Vietnam, and Korea) last not one day, but up to two weeks! In the US, many people attend or thr

Man Leaves $50K to Waitress(1)原版英文小故事内容： A waitress who worked in a truck stop restaurant received $50,000 in a will. The popular Do-Drop-In Truck Stop is on interstate 10 just west of El Paso, Texas. It’s open 24/7, and it seats 80. Matthew had been a regular customer there for the last ten years. He was 70 when he started eating breakfast there. He drove a 1980 Cadillac that was

Man Leaves $50K to Waitress(2)原版英文小故事内容： Whenever the other waitresses saw Matthew pulling up in his old car, they would tell Amber that her “boyfriend” had arrived. They teased Amber about the day the elderly Matthew would propose to her. “What are you going to tell him?” asked Chelsea. “If you say no, he might go home and drink himself to death. If you say yes, the shock mig

Who Needs School?原版英文小故事内容： Two years after it was appointed by the governor, a panel has delivered its report on education in California. One of its findings is that half of the students who reach the ninth grade will never graduate. There were about 6 million students in California’s K-12 grades in the spring of 2006. The report focused on problems with the education system;

Black Friday原版英文小故事内容： The day after Thanksgiving has become America’s wildest shopping day. Closed all day on Thursday, chain stores all across the nation open early on Friday. Some stores open at 12:01 Friday morning, while others open at 4 a.m. Some “sleepyhead” stores, like Target this year, don’t open their doors on Friday until 6 a.m. From Friday to the day before Christmas,

JFK Assassinate原版英文小故事内容： Every November 22, people worldwide remember and ponder the assassination in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy. He was sitting in the back seat of a convertible (the top was down) when bullets fired from a rifle tore into him and a fellow passenger. The assassination was caught on 8mm film by Abraham Zapruder. Digital enhancement of that famous film

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十二生肖相关英语习语文档部分内容 Rat is the first symbol of the Twelve Animals in China. In Chinese culture, we think the rat is very smart. However, in English, sometimes it is compared to bad persons. 鼠在十二生肖中排第一位。在中国文化中,我们都认为老鼠是精灵的化身。但是在英语中,经常用来比喻骗子。 Rat smell a rat觉得可疑 I smelt a rat when he started being so helpful! the rat race激烈的竞争 Living in a big city is one

Don’t Top Off the Tanks原版英文小故事内容： Alabama Airlines has notified its pilots to stop topping off their fuel tanks. Alarmed, pilot Buck Rogers sent a copy of the memo to Time Magazine, which investigated the matter. It discovered that AA was reacting to a 50-percent increase in fuel prices in the last year alone. The memo warned pilots to put only the amount of fuel into the plane th