14-10-08 Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace, and when she asked her mother if she would...

14-09-28 MR. ROCHESTER, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived, and waiting to speak with him. Ad...

14-09-11 The home of Samuel Griffiths in Lycurgus, New York, a city of some twenty-five thousand inhabitants midwaybetween Utica and Albany. Near the dinner hour and by degrees the family assembling for its customary meal. On this occasion the preparations w...

14-09-10 A US father is suspected of killing his five children and dumping their bodies in another state, police have said. 美国一名父亲涉嫌谋杀他的五个孩子并弃尸他州。 Timothy Ray Jones faces multiples charges in his home state of South Carolina, the Associ...

14-09-05 The thing that most interested Clyde at first was how, if at all, he was to keep the major portion of all this moneyhe was making for himself. For ever since he had been working and earning money, it had been assumed that hewould contribute a fair p...

14-09-04 Chapter 1 David meets his uncle It was early in the month of June, 1751, when I shut the door of our house behind me for the last time. All my life I had lived in the quiet little village of Essendean, in the Lowlands of Scotland, where my father ha...

14-09-03 When Pable Picasso was a little boy, he lived in a small town in Spain. His mother liked to call him Piz. It is the Spanish word for pencil. As a baby, he liked pencils and chalks better than any of his toys. Picasso's father was an artist. He spent...

14-08-21 Son: Is ink so very expensive, father? Father: Why, son, what makes you think so? Son: W...well. Mother seems quite disturbed because I spilled some on the carpet. 儿子：爸爸，墨水很贵吗？ 父亲：不贵呀，你为什么这么想？ 儿子：哦，我把墨水洒了一点在...

14-08-21 The father was reading the school report which had just been handed to him by his hopeful son. His brow was wrathful（愤怒的） as he read, English, poor. French, weak. mathematics, fair. and he gave a glance of disgust at the quaking lad（少年，小伙...

14-08-21 When my brother, a notorious spender, came home for a visit, he told my father he was going to get married and settle down. Dad said, Why don't you stay single and settle up. 我的哥哥是个有名的挥霍者。他回家来时，告诉父亲说他要结婚了，要安定下来。父...