14-08-21 When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew, who were walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navaj...

14-08-21 There was a little old lady who was nearly blind, and she had three sons who wanted to prove which one was the best to her. Son 1 bought her a 15-room mansion, thinking this would surely be the best that any of them could offer her. Son 2 bought her...

14-08-21 Brown was very proud of his young son. Once he was talking to a visitor, telling the man how clever his son was. The boy is only two years old, he said, and knows all animals. He's going to be a great naturalist. Here, let me show you. He took a boo...

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...

14-08-13 The kind bishop intimately asked an author's son, Do you want to become an author like your father? No, replied the author's son. Then what is your ambition, my little man? said the bishop. I want to become a famous person, then anything I write wil...

14-07-29 A neighbor told us about a trip he took with his two-and-a-half-year-old son. It was the first time the father and the boy had been away by themselves. The first night they spent in a hotel, the father moved his bed close to the boy's and when they...

14-06-16 A father and a son were passing Zhao Fu's field when their horse got frightened and refused to move. The sweating father and son went to ask for Zhao Fu's help to push the cart. Zhao Fu said yes and put his hoe（锄头） on the cart and took over the...

14-05-20 A man lost his axe, and began to suspect the son of his neighbor to have the appearance of a thief no matter from what angle he looked at him. After a period of time, he found his axe when was digging his well. From then on, when he saw him again, h...

14-05-09 As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal（肠的） disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very s...

14-04-15 A woman got on a bus with her son. The conductor asked, How old is this boy? Four, replied the woman. Then the conductor asked the boy, How old are you, sonny? Four, replied the boy. The conductor said, Well, I'll let him ride free this time, but I...