365个英语简短小故事- 13. Please Marry Me!

Jill answered the phone. It was Jack. Jill, will you marry me next week? What? Jack repeated his question. Of course not, she replied. She wondered why he was asking her that question. They had already agreed that when people get married, they immedi

365个英语简短小故事- 11. A Good Sandwich

Gordon was hungry. He opened the refrigerator. There must be something in here to eat, he thought. There wasa single hot dog. He took it out of its package and put a small frying pan onto the stoves gas burner. He turned on the heat. Then he poured a

365个英语简短小故事-346. The Refund (1)

Delbert figured the bill would be a little over $15. He had bought seven Hersheys Special Dark 5-ounce chocolate bars. They were on sale, reduced from $1.49 to $1 each. He had studied the various deals on toilet paper. You need a calculator to figure

365个英语简短小故事-351. I’m Pregnant

He was a senior in high school, and she was a junior. They had met in algebra class at the beginning of the school year. He was a math whiz; she wanted to be an English teacher. They helped each other with their homework. He helped her solve x + 4y =

365个英语简短小故事-361. The 2008 Masters

Thirty years ago golf legend Gary Player, now 72, won his third and last Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Yesterday, a second golfer from South Africa won the Masters. Finally! said Gary, proudly. Sunday, April 13, was cool and very windy. Onl

365个英语简短小故事-331. The Tax Charge

The envelope had the words Internal Revenue Service printed on the outside. Oh no, Vaughn thought, this could be bad news. It was bad news. IRS had determined that Vaughn owed $963, plus $88 interest, from two years ago. They had disallowed a deducti

365个英语简短小故事- 27. A Love Letter

Bill wrote this letter to Mary: Weve talked on the phone and in my apartment, and now I'm writing this letter. Maybe if I put my thoughts and feelings in writing, youll understand them better. I love you. I want to marry you. I want to be with you fo

365个英语简短小故事- 32. The Breakup

Myra told Myron that they shouldnt see each other for a while. Her doctor had suggested that she take a short vacation from her job and a long vacation from Myron. What did you tell him about me? Myron asked. She told her doctor that she had dreams a

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-19

1. An extremist group with ties to al-Qaida is warning Pope Benedict that he and the West are doomed. The threat comes as protestors raged across the Muslim world to demand more than apology from the

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-23

1. Health officials are investigating two more deaths possibly linked to taint ed spinach. A Maryland woman who was infected with E. coli died September, 13th. An Idaho toddler died Wednesday from a k

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-02

1. 9/11 attack ringleader Mohamed Atta is all smiles with another hijacker on a new video reportedly Atta's last will. The Associated Press secured exclusive rights to the video from the London Sunday

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-04

1. Two more Amish schoolgirls died overnight following a deadly shooting in their one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania Monday. That brings the total number of girls fatally injured in the incident to

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-05

1.Investigators say they have now located relatives of Carl Roberts--relatives he claimed he had molested twenty years ago. Roberts allude d to that molestation in suicide notes discovered during a sh

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-04-01

1. A desperate search for survivors after 3 strong earthquakes and 9 aftershocks rattle d the western Iran early this morning. The quakes ranged in magnitude from 4.7 to 6.1. At least 70 people were k

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-02-25

1. The streets are deserted after Iraq’s government imposed an extraordinary daytime curfew on Baghdad and 3 neighboring provinces. It’s a bid to pull the nation back from the brink of civil war a

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-03-06

1. More violence in Iraq after gunmen stormed a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing at least three people and wounding several others. The cause of the clash is not known. 2. Al-Qaeda's second-in-command

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-03-11

1. Could this storm over port security send a wrong message to moderate Arab countries? President Bush says he worries the flack over the Dubai deal could push away allies in the Middle East. But he s

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-03-24

1. Officials in Chile say that 12 elderly Americans who died in a bus crash arranged the tour on their own. The victims were on a celebrity cruise ship , but the tour was not offered by the ship. The

美联社一分钟新闻 2008-07-03

1. After years in captivity Colombia's military says it has rescued 15 hostages, among them former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three US military contractors. They were kidnapped in 2002. 2. Police are looking into whether drugs fuel

美联社一分钟新闻 2008-07-14

1. An attack on a remote base in Afghanistan has left nine American soldiers dead, another 15 were wounded. Officials say the attack began early in the morning in a remote area near the Pakistan border with militants firing machine guns, grenades an