The yardman comes every two weeks. He drives a gray pickup truck. The truck is a Ford. It is about 15 years old, but it runs well. It doesnt burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage. The yardmans name is Byron. In the back of his truck are a lawn mow

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

From his window, Henry could see a light that seemed to float across the yard. He raced down the stairs and opened the back door as quickly as he could, hoping to catch the ghost before whoever it was disappeared. The light stopped bobbing across the

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Lets watch for a minute, Violet said in a low voice. Maybe hell drive away soon. Or maybe hes after the hidden treasure, said Benny. The Aldens peered at the car. Inside, the man with dark glasses sat, his head turned toward Linas house, his chin bob

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Benny burst out of his room and ran into the room next door. Henry! Henry! he cried. Henry was lying in bed, reading a book. He looked up, surprised. Benny? What is it? Did you have a bad dream? Benny grabbed Henrys arm. Come look! Professor Murray w

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In this small town, my family and I had lived at several places, before settling down in a house on Pennsylvania Ave. A very quiet neighborhood, my folks quickly made friends with those all around. In the house on the left of ours lived an old woman

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by Jason Marshall A few weeks ago I had a Twitter conversation with the former host of QDTs Modern Manners Guy, Trent Armstrong, in which Trent said something along the lines of: I've always wondered how to tell how fast a football player is going ba

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Ladies Sing the Blues: Women in Blues and Jazz in the 20th Century By Nancy Steinbach, Dana Demange Broadcast: Friday, August 05, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VO

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script: Put... pesticides(农药) on your yard alone. Michael Griggs is on patrol(巡逻)l. He is on the lookout for green grass, a sign that people are watering their lawns. It's like this yard right here, really really green He is also checking water

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Spanish houses have no front yard nor back yard nor side yard, but an inside yard with the rooms all around it. 西班牙的房屋没有前院、没有后院,也没有侧院,但有个四周都是房间的内院。 This inside yard is called a pat

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Task 3: Whos the Murderer? A passing police car heard loud screams and responded immediately. When the police arrived at the scene, hey found Petes dead body in his backyard, with man knife wounds and blood everywhere. The officer immediately went to

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Watch your back! Benny Alden called to his sister Violet, who was dribbling a soccer ball across their front yard. Their older brother, Henry, was hot on her trail, trying to get the ball. Violet quickly passed the ball to Benny. Their sister, Jessie

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A bolt of lightning ripped across the night sky. One, one-thousand, whispered a frightened voice. Two, one-thousand, whispered another. Three, one-thousand, four, one-thousand, counted four soft voices together. Five, one Thunder shook the house. The

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095 The Crow and the Water Bottle It was a scorching hot summer day. One crow was very thirsty. I'm so thirsty. The thirsty crow roamed around looking for water. After flying for a long time, the crow found a water bottle in one of the farmer's yard.

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A Yard of Bubblegum We had an interesting weekend this past Memorial Day weekend. We went to the town of Monroe which is on the outskirts of Seattle. My son had a baseball tournament. It would have lasted for three days if they had won on both Saturd

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Dannys fence needed painting. He wanted to paint it white. He looked in the phone book. He looked under P for Painters. He called up a painter. How much to paint my fence? he asked. How big is your fence? the painter asked. It goes all the way around

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Olympic sports have their own special vernacular, slang terms that NPR's Melissa Block has been collecting throughout the games. MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: Seems a lot of the lingo has to do with disaster, which strikes often in these

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Bruce picked up the cat. The cat meowed. The cat didn't like most people. The cat liked to be alone. It liked to sleep on the sofa. It liked to sleep in the fruit bowl. It liked to sleep on top of the TV. It liked to chase bugs in the front yard. It

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Daniel needed a new carburetor for his car. Well, not a new one. A new one would cost at least $250. Even a rebuilt one would cost about $110. The cheapest thing to do was to go to a salvage yard. California has about 50 salvage yards. Most of them a

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James Blunt 最新单曲《Postcards》!海边派对的热闹非凡让人心生向往,《You're Beautiful》的突然闯入真是个小惊喜,每次听上尉的歌心情都会格外的愉悦。 歌词: Sundays sitting on your back porch And I

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LESSON 25 The daw in borrowed feathers 第二十五课 寒鸦借来的羽毛 A number of jackdaws lived very happily in the tower of an old church. 大量的寒鸦很高兴住在老教堂的塔。 Close at hand was a poultry-yard, belonging to a larg

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