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• 1.A Complicated Breakfast order
• A resident in a posh（时髦的，漂亮的） hotel breakfast room called over（点名） the head waiter one morning and said with a wonderful and cheerful smi...
• 2.When the Leaves Are Gone
• On a beautiful Octorber day, my husband and I were taking a drive through the Georgia mountains. When traffic slowed to snail's pace, we assumed there...
• 3.Timing is Everything
• A very close friend of mine, named Alan, is chronically（长期地，慢性地） late, and not by just a little. Anybody that knows Alan knows that he is tot...
• 4.Response Ability
• An Ogden, Iowa, minister was matching coins with a member of his congregation（集会，集合） for a cup of coffee. When asked if that didn't constitute ...
• 5.How Much Is It?
• It was winter, and Mrs. Hermann wanted to do a lot of shopping, so she waited until it was Saturday, when her husband was free, and she took him to th...
• 6.Three Whistles
• I promised my girlfriend a gold necklace for her birthday, but when the jeweler（珠宝商） quoted a price for one we liked, I let out a long, low whist...
• 7.Camera
• On our way to a wedding in Vermont, my husband and I realized we had forgotten our camera. We stopped at a general store and, hoping to purchase a che...
• 8.That's It
• I once lived in Arizona near fort Huachuca, an Army installation. Our street consisted mainly of mobile homes with small yards, but grass was difficul...
• 9.Toyota
• Serving as a Marine recruiter（招聘人员） in western North Carolina, I found a young man who met all the requirements and was ready to enlist. I expla...
• 10.West Point
• My father, brother and I visited West Point to see a football game between Army and Boston College. Taking a stroll（漫步，闲逛） before kickoff（开始...