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Long ago, the people who settled in undeveloped areas of America first told tall tales. After a hard day's work, people gathered to tell each other stories. Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero. An African-American man named John Henry w

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Mister Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not

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(MUSIC) Our story today is, The Devil and Tom Walker. It was written by Washington Irving. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Before we begin our story, let us go back three hundred years to the late sixteen hundreds. In those

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Carter Druse was born in Virginia. He loved his parents, his home and the South. But he loved his country too. And in the autumn of 1861, when the United States was divided by a terrible Civil War, Carter Druse, a Southerner, decided to join the Uni

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(MUSIC) Our story is called The Diamond Lens. It was written by Fitz-James O'Brien. Today we will hear the second and final part of the story. Here is Maurice Joyce with part two of The Diamond Lens. (MUSIC) Storyteller: When I was a child, someone

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G sat in the bedroom and looked at the paper that covered the walls. He felt strange. He and his wife had slept in this room all of their married life. Yet he could not remember what the walls looked like. He had been blind. Now he could see again.

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John Lyman stood on the steps of the summer house, watching his wife climbing into the car and drive off along the lake road. She was going to the village to get some boxes for his manuscripts and books. He looked unhappy, he had done little work on

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Our story today is The Riverman. It was written by Stewart Edward White. Here is Shep O' Neal with our story. I first met him in a small lumber town. I was sitting in front of a hotel watching people pass by. It was a warm day. Now and then a group

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It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville Tennesee, a slow grey rain. I was tired, so I went straight to my hotel. A big heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. Something about the way he moved made me think of a hungry dog lo

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When my great grandma Anna came to America. She wore the same thick coat and big boots she had worn when she worked on her family's farm. But her family did not farm anymore. In New York City her father carried things on a wagon. The rest of the fam

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Our story today is called A Girl for Walter. It was written by Theodore Jacobs, here is Shep O'Neal with the story. We never knew what Walter was. But we called him, ur, idiot. We called him that without knowing if he really was as foolish and stupi

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Our story today is called the Wide Net. It was written by Eudora Welty. Here is Larry West with the story. William Wallace Jameson's wife Hazel was going to have a baby, but this was October, and the baby wouldn't be borne until April. Hayzel acted

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I arrived in America one sunny morning. But I did not feel I was here yet. Flying on an airplane from Lagos, Nigeria to New York City, to Los Angeles, California did not carry my mind with me right away. I had to catch up with my body. The United St

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Now the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called the Line of Least Resistance(最省力的方法). It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. Mr. Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Milli

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Once there was a Czechoslovakian violin player who lived in Sweden. His name was Rudolf. Some of his friends said he could not play the violin very well. He was too restless and travelled around too much. Rudolf did travel. That is true. He travelle

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Mrs. Henry Miller had lived alone for several years. Her husband was dead. But he had left her a comfortable amount of money. He also had left her a nice apartment in New York City near the East River. There were three other apartments in the large

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Now the special English program American Stories. Today's story is called the White Heron. It was written by Sarah Orne Jewett. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. The forest was full of shadows as a little girl hurried through it one summer evening

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And now the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Marshal in Rome, it was written by May Brisken. Here is Keg Lant with our story. Often when he stood next to his wife, Marshal reminded me of an unhappy dog. His

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called, The Return of a Private. It was written by Hamlin Garland. Here is Harry Monroe with our story. (MUSIC) Narrator: The soldiers cheered as the train crossed the border into the state of Wisconsin. It had been a long

听基础单词,练听力第39期:女人询问丈夫的病情

【今日基础词】 Status 【Transcript】 A man was hit by a cab in the street. He was brought to the hospital. His wife who was standing up by his bed wanted to know his status and said to the doctor, I think that he is very ill. I am afraid tha