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Three Doctors at Heaven's Gate | 三位医生在天堂门口

Three doctors present their credentials to St. Peter at heaven's gate. The punchline humorously i...

beginner dialogue english-learning
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The Pretentious Scholar | 自命不凡的学者

A pretentious scholar belittles a boatman for lacking academic knowledge, only to be confronted w...

dialogue fable humor
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The Plural of "Child" | “孩子”的复数形式

A humorous classroom dialogue where a student gives a literal and unexpected answer to a grammar ...

beginner dialogue education
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The Smartest Kid | 最聪明的孩子

A barber tries to prove a boy is foolish by offering him a choice between a dollar and two quarte...

beginner dialogue humor
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The Cost of a Tantrum | 哭闹的代价

A dentist explains to a mother that her son's tooth extraction costs $20 instead of the usual $4 ...

anecdote dialogue everyday-life
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Half or Five Tenths? | 半个还是十分之五?

A teacher asks a student to choose between "half" and "five tenths" of an orange. The student hum...

beginner dialogue education
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An Essential Correction | 实质性的纠正

A teacher notices food on Walter's face and guesses he had eggs for breakfast, but Walter humorou...

anecdote beginner dialogue
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The Interview | 采访

A reporter arrives to interview a statesman, who instructs him to write the piece first and then ...

beginner dialogue humor
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The Doctor Knows Better | 医生懂得多

A man injured in an accident insists he is alive, but his wife trusts the doctor's contrary diagn...

anecdote beginner dialogue
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One Engine Left | 仅剩一具引擎

A humorous story about a 747 losing engines mid-flight, where a passenger misunderstands the cumu...

aviation-anecdote beginner-english humor
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I Know Who God Is! | 我知道上帝是谁了!

A boy tries to understand God's nature by asking about gender, race, and sexuality. His mother gi...

cultural-icon dialogue humor
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The Elephant Sandwich | 大象三明治

A traveler insists he has nothing to declare at customs, but is caught with an elephant that has ...

absurd beginner dialogue
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I Thought I Had Gone Deaf | 我还以为我聋了

A farmer, relieved to learn his wife fell out of the car, had mistaken her absence for his own de...

beginner dialogue humor
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Ever Catch All the Fish? | 你能抓到所有的鱼吗?

A speeding driver, caught despite being among many others, questions the fairness of his ticket. ...

anecdote beginner dialogue
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Seeking a Second Opinion | 求生

A dying patient, upon being asked by his doctor if he wishes to see anyone, requests to see anoth...

anecdote dialogue health
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Divorce at 91 | 九十一岁离婚记

A 91-year-old couple seeks divorce, explaining to a perplexed judge that they were waiting for th...

aging dialogue family
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Response Ability | 应答的智慧

Three anecdotes demonstrate witty and pragmatic responses to challenging questions, highlighting ...

anecdotes critical-thinking humor
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Not Our Own Food | 非己之食

Two boys cleverly circumvent a bar's rule against eating personal food by swapping lunches with e...

beginner culture dialogue
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A New Start | 新生

Mark Twain protests a mistaken obituary, and the editor humorously offers to list him in the Birt...

anecdote beginner english-reading
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The Painless Hair Solution | 无痛生发方案

A bald man offers a stylist $5,000 for a painless method to replicate her hair. Her ingenious and...

dialogue humor life-lesson
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