文档介绍：Humorous Stories
Lesson One
It was two weeks before Christmas, and Mrs. Smith was very busy. She bought a lot of Christmas cards to send to her friends and to her husband’s friends， and put them on the table in the living room. Then ，when her husband came home from work ， she said to him, ‘ Here are the Christmas cards for our friends， and here are some stamps, a pen and our book of addresses。 Will you please write the cards while I am cooking the dinner?'（精品文档请下载）
Mr. Smith did not say anything， but walked out of the living-room and went to his study。 Mrs. Smith was very angry with him, but did not say anything either。（精品文档请下载）
Then a minute later he came back with a box full of Christmas cards. All of them had addresses and stamps on them. （精品文档请下载）
‘These are from last year,’ he said。 ‘I forgot to post them。
Lesson Two
Mrs。 Jones was waiting for an important telephone call, but she had no bread in the house, so she left the baby at home and said to his five-year—old brother， ‘ I am going to the shops， Jimmy , and I will be back in a few minutes.
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While she was out , the telephone rang， and Jimmy answered. ‘ Hullo,’ said a man， ‘is your mother there?’（精品文档请下载）
‘ no，’ answered Jimmy.
‘Well, when she comes back， say to her， “Mr。 Backer telephoned”