【推荐2】Little John is a nine-year-old boy. He is in Grade Two now. He lives not far from the school, but he’s often late for class. He likes watching TV in the evening and goes to bed late, so he can’t get up early in the morning.

This year Mrs. Smith, John’s aunt, works in John’s school. She teaches English in Grade Two. She is strict（严格的）with John and often tells the boy to obey the school rules and come to school on time. Yesterday morning John got up late. When he got to school, it was ten past eight. His aunt was waiting for him at the school gate.

“You’re ten minutes late for the first class, John,” Mrs. Smith said angrily. “Why are you often late for class?” “Every time I get to the street corner, I see a guidepost（路标）. It says, ‘SCHOOL — GO SLOW!’ ”

When night comes, they stop under a big tree. The Tin Woodman cuts some wood and makes a fire for Dorothy. Dorothy and Toto eat some bread and the Lion goes into the forest to find something for his dinner. The Scarecrow collects some nuts for Dorothy’s breakfast. Then all of them lie down and sleep until morning.

The next day they set off again very early. They walk a few miles and then come to a big ditch. It’s very wide and very deep. There are a lot of sharp rocks at the bottom of it.

“How can we cross the ditch?” Dorothy asks her friends.

“We can’t fly over it,” the Scarecrow says. “And we can’t jump over it. So we must stay here.”

The Lion looks at the ditch and says, “I can jump over it.”

“Can you?” the Scarecrow says. “That’s good. You can take us across on your back, one by one.”

“Who wants to go first?” the Lion says.

“Me!” the Scarecrow says and he gets on the Lion’s back. The Lion jumps across the ditch easily. Then he jumps back and takes Dorothy and Toto. Finally he takes the Tin Woodman across the ditch.

Later in the afternoon, they come to a wide river.

“How can we cross the river?” Dorothy asks.

“Easy!” the Scarecrow replies. “The Tin Woodman can cut down some trees and build a raft. We can cross the river on that.”

“That’s a good idea,” the Lion says to the Scarecrow, “One would believe you had brains in your head, instead of straw!”

But it takes time to make a raft, and it’s very late when the Tin Woodman finishes it. So they find a cozy place under the trees where they sleep well until the morning. That night, Dorothy dreams of flying to the Emerald City and finding the good Wizard Oz, who would soon send her back to Kansas.

(Adapted from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

【推荐1】A woman is at the movies (电影), and she is enjoying the movie very much. A man in the next seat begins (开始) to look for something on the floor under him. The woman is angry (生气) and says, “What are you doing there? What are you looking for?”

“A piece of chocolate.” The man answers.

“But it’s dirty now! Take this and be quiet, please. I am listening to the film!” She gives the man a big one.

“But,” the man says, “my false (假的) tooth is in it on the floor!”

【推荐3】Dave got a large sum of money from his uncle. He decided to set up his own company to sell houses. He found a nice office in a tall building and decided to rent (租用) it.

One morning, he was at work when he heard someone coming into his office. “It must be my first customer (顾客),” Dave said to himself. So, he quickly picked up his telephone and pretended (假装) to be answering a call. He pretended that the call was from someone who wanted to buy an expensive house.

A man knocked at the door while Dave was “on the phone”. He came in and waited for Dave to finish his “call”.

After five minutes, Dave finally finished. He turned to the man and said, “Sorry to make you wait. How can I help you?” The man answered, “I’m from the telephone company to connect (接) your telephone line.”

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