14-03-24 Selling secondhand books at our church bazaar, I got into an argument with a prospective customer. He was interested in buying The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash but claimed it was overpriced at 35 cents. Other paperbacks were selling for ten or 15 cents...

13-10-16 A little boy bustled（喧闹，忙乱） into a grocery one day with a memorandum（便笺） in his hand. Hello, Mr. Smith,He said, I want thirteen pounds of coffee at 33 cents. Very good, said the grocer, and he noted down the sale. Anything else, Charlie?...

12-05-15 Bill is a good student and an intelligent boy. He likes to study arithmetic, and he can do all of the arithmetic problems in his book easily. One day on his way to school Bill passed a fruit store. There was a sign in the window which said, Apple-Si...

11-08-30 Jacky: I found 50 cents on the sidewalk in front of school. Tommy: I think it's mine. I dropped 50 cents there today and couldn't find it. Jacky: But what I found was two quarters. Tommy: Then I'm sure it's mine. It probably broke when it hit the si...

10-06-23 In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the pricefive dollarswas far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries（杂货，食品） for his family. Reuben couldn't ask his...