1、One day, Jack’s wife was their bedroom. She found many things in an old box.“Look at all these umbrellas (雨伞),”Jack’s wife said to him,“There are eight and they are all broken.” “I’ll take them all to the umbrella shop and have them mended,”Jack said,“They are too good to throw away. ” Jack took the eight umbrellas to the shop and left them there. “They’ll be ready tomorrow,”the shopkeeper said. That evening Jack went home from the office by bus as usual. He sat next to an old woman. She had an umbrella on the floor near her. When the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up. “Hey ! ”the woman said,. “That’s my umbrella.“I’m so sorry,”Jack said and gave it back to her, “I took it by mistake. Please forgive (原谅)me.” The next day he collected (取) the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on A. bus. As he sat down, A. voice behind him said,“You have certainly had A. successful (成功的) day ! ”He turned around and saw the same woman again. He almost took her umbrella the day before.
Old Peter liked fishing.Whenever he had any free time he drove into the countryside,found a good place to fish, and spent a few hours fishing.
The problem was that most of the best places to fish were on private land,and Peter often had to pull his rod out of the water quickly and run off with it when the owner of the land came along.
2、One day he was sitting by a river that ran through a rich man's property when he fell asleep. He was awakened by a voice saying,“You'll never catch anything using that bait.” Peter looked up and saw a man standing behind him. “What do you mean?”Peter said.“There's nothing wrong with this bait.I always use it.I've caught thirty fish with it today already.”
“How interesting!”the man said.“Do you know who I am ?Peter shook his head. “I'm the owner of this land.”
Peter thought very quickly. “Do you know who I am ?”he asked. The man shook his head. “I'm the biggest liar in the country,”Peter told him. And with this he pulled his line out of the water and ran off as fast as he could.