14-04-04 A woman who, as a newborn, was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant said she has found her birth mother just three weeks after launching a search that garnered worldwide attention, and as her mother prepared to look for h...

14-03-12 Larry! Come here! said his furious mother, putting the telephone down, I've just had a call from Mrs. Harrison about your behavior to her Doris at the school dance last night. You wretched（卑鄙的） , rude boy! I was nice to her, Mum, really I was!...

14-03-10 One day Tony old a lie to his mother. That night felt very unhappy. He did not want to play with the children. He sat on the doorstep alone. He looked up in the sky and saw the big round moon. He thought that it was looking down upon him, because it...

14-02-14 One day, a colt（小马，生手） carried a bag of wheat to the mill. As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. Water went gurgling（作汩汩声） on. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a...

14-01-23 The mother of Hans said, Whither away, Hans? Hans answered, To Grethel. Behave well, Hans. Oh, I'll behave well. Good-bye, mother. Good-bye, Hans. Hans comes to Grethel, Good day, Grethel. Good day, Hans. What dost thou bring that is good? I bring n...

14-01-23 Before the final examination, Tom told his mother, Mom, I had a dream last night that I'd passed today's exam. Don't trust dreams, dear. It is said what you experience in dreams usually turns out to be the opposite. Mother replied. Then I do hope I'...

14-01-13 The government policy that promotes marriage among single mothers as a key part of the effort to fight poverty has missed the mark, according to one leading researcher. 一位研究主管称，政府制定了政策，想要通过促成未婚妈妈结婚来帮助她们脱贫。但是，这...

14-01-09 Jack Has A Mystery What is the matter? Does your head ache? asked Jill, one evening in March, observing that Jack sat with his head in his hands, an attitude which, with him, meant either pain or perplexity（困惑，混乱） . No; but I'm bothered. I wa...

14-01-09 The Dramatic Club While Jack was hopping gayly about on his crutches, poor Jill was feeling the effects of her second fall, and instead of sitting up, as she hoped to do after six weeks of rest, she was ordered to lie on a board for two hours each d...

14-01-08 There was once a girl who was idle and would not spin, and let her mother say what she would, she could not bring her to it. At last the mother was once so overcome with anger and impatience, that she beat her, on which the girl began to weep loudly...