1. Mrs. Brown is forty-two years old, and has two sons and one daughter, Alice. Mrs. Brown gets up earlier than any other member of her family. She is very busy every day. She is a good cook. Alice sometimes helps her mother with the cooking.
2. Yesterday was Sunday. Because there was no school, I went to a movie with three of my friends. It was raining, so we took our umbrellas. There were many people on the train.
The movie began at two o’clock. We liked it very much. We enjoyed the movie for two hours. After the movie, we went to a coffee shop. My friends drank coffee, but I drank tea. It was a good day.
3. Every Saturday, John goes to the store with his mother. They get on the bus at 9:00 in the morning. The trip doesn’t take long and they reach the store at 9:30.
John’ s mother buys meat and vegetables. John looks at the magazines. He wants to buy candy, but he has no money. Sometimes John’ s mother buys him candy. They leave the store at 11:30.
4. Mr. Brown often goes to the park with his family on Sundays. He goes with his wife, son, and two daughters. They get on the train after lunch and ride for an hour to the park. They usually leave the park at dinner time.
At the park, they walk together and look at the trees. Mr. Brown’ s daughters often read books. Sometimes, Mr. Brown and his son, Peter, play catch. They have a good time at the park.
5. Linda comes home at eight o’clock. She is surprised to find the front gate is open. When she gets into the kitchen, she notices that the gas oven is missing and a lamp has been knocked over. You can tell what must have happened to the gas oven and what Linda should do about it.
6. Mr. White owns a bar in New York. He likes children. He has two children himself. But he thinks that children should not come into his bar. In New York, children under eighteen can not drink alcohol and they can’ t go into bars. In Mr. White’ s bar, there is a sign over the bar. It says: Anyone under eighteen is prohibited from drinking. It’ s the law of New York.
7. Whenever I have a meeting, Mary is always the first person that I’ d like to invite. She is a talkative lady. This is the reason why I want her to come to the meeting. She will be able to make my other guests laugh. She doesn’t get any angry even if someone tries to make fun of her. She can also discuss almost anything you can think of.
8. Anna was five years old. Her mother took her to the biggest shop in town. Anna found a beautiful doll in one of the show windows, and looked at it for a few minutes. When she looked around, she could not find her mother. She was very young, but she did not cry. She saw a policeman in the street, and went to him. She asked, “Have you seen a lady without a small girl?” “Yes, I have,” answered the policeman. Anna said with a smile, “I am the small girl. Where is the lady?”
9. Last Sunday was a beautiful day. Paul went on a picnic to a mountain with his parents. They went to the foot of the mountain by car. Then they walked up to the top, and it took about one hour and a half. Paul was the first to reach the top, the next was his father, and his mother was the last. on the top of the mountain they saw some people who were enjoying hand gliding. Down below
a lot of cows were eating grass in the field. Paul and his parents had a very good time at the picnic.
10. This is a story of one of the most famous men in the world. His name is Albert Schweitzer. When he was thirty years old, he began to study to become a doctor. He wanted to help many poor and sick people in Africa. In 1913 he went to Africa. He was very busy every day, because he had to take care of many people who needed his help. He did everything he could for them. They did not have to pay for his help. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Albert Schweitzer.
11. Jack lives a small town in Texas with his father, mother and Betty, his younger sister. One day in the summer his mother asked him to go to the super-market to buy some cold drinks for the family. His mother handed him four dollars. He went to the supermarket by bicycle. It took him fifteen minutes to get there. He paid three dollars and sixty cents for four cans of orange juice and received forty cents in change. When he returned home, he gave the change back to his mother.
12. Miss White is from America. She lives in Taipei. She has been in Taiwan for six months. She teaches English at a university from Monday to Friday. She likes to teach very much. She tells her students a lot of things about her country in her classes. When she teaches, she tries to speak easy English very slowly. Her students can understand her easily. Since her first visit, more and more students have become interested in English, and enjoy studying it. 13. Tom got a surprise yesterday. When he got home from school, he couldn’t find his mother anywhere. His sister, Anna, said to him, “Mother is in the hospital. Out new sister was just born.” Tom went to the hospital in a hurry with Anna. They saw their mother. She said, “Now you have another little sister. We will call her Mary.” In the evening their father came to the hospital. He took
Tom and Anna to see the baby. Mary was sleeping in a little bed. Tom thought she wasn’t very pretty.
14. Jack likes studying history very much. One Sunday morning he was planning to visit a museum. He hurried to the station to catch the 7:30 train. As soon as he got there, he tried to buy a ticket for that train. The ticket clerk said, “The 7:30 train has just left. The next train will leave in thirty minutes.” “Has the 7:30 train gone already? It’s 7:27 by my watch,” said Jack. The clerk said a smile, “Look at that clock on the wall. It’s already past 7:30. your watch is three minutes slow.
15. Arthur goes to school by train. One morning he was very sleepy. After he left the station, he remembered that he left his bag in the train. Some textbooks, a box lunch and a dictionary were in the bag. At school he telephoned the lost and found office of the station to ask about the bag. But “We don’t have your bag” was the answer. He was shocked. He returned home and told his mother about it. His mothe
16. This summer, Limei was taken to San Francisco by her aunt and uncle who are living in Taipei. She spent a week there. It was her first visit to a foreign country. San Francisco was full of visitors. There are many hills in the city. Limei rode on the famous cable car running through the city. When the cable car went up the hills, she was able to look down over the city. It was a great experience for her. She learned many things about San Francisco while she was there. She enjoyed San Francisco very much because she could see things with her own eyes.
17. One evening Taming went to a supermarket to buy some fruit and vegetables. The store was very crowed with shoppers. An American girl came up to him and said, “Excuse me, but I want to buy some milk. Do you know where it is?” Taming knew where it was, but he did not know how to answer in
English. He could only point out the place to the girl. Taming was very unhappy, because he could not even say “over there” in English. He decided to study English much harder.
18. Lihua is a college student. One day, on her way home, she met her friend Takong. She met him last two years ago. They said “Hello!” to each other. Takong said, “I’m going to India next spring as an engineer. I have to teach people there how to make computers, so I have studied English conversation for two years.” She was in high school, he often slept in his English classes. She thought to herself he changed his mind about English.
19. One day, Mary and her mother went shopping to buy a pair of shoes. The shoe store was in the center of the city. The street was full of people. Everyone looked very busy. There were five young girls standing in front of the store. They were holding small boxes in their hands. Several people stopped and put something in the boxes. Mary asked her mother, “What are those people putting in the boxes?” “They’re putting money in them. Those girls are collecting money from people because they want to help the poor children in this city,” answered her mother.
20. This summer, Mr. Brown took a week’s holiday and decided to go camping with his family. His children, Alice and Mike were very glad. It was sunny on the day they left. They started early in the morning. On their way to the
campground, they enjoyed looking at the beautiful mountains and lakes. They got there at noon, and began to get ready for lunch. Mike gathered some firewood. Father made a fire. Mother prepared food. Alice helped her mother cook. They enjoyed their lunch. After lunch, Alice and Mike went for a walk in the woods.
21. Lisa likes rabbits. She has ten pictures of rabbits on the walls in her room. Some of the rabbits are running and some are eating. Some are hopping and
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