problem-solving

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The Yellow Paper | 一张黄纸

A new tech support agent spends hours trying to solve a customer's printer issue where yellow won...

anecdote beginner humorous
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Perfect Match | 完美匹配

A painter becomes famous by perfectly matching a wall to a client's vase, only to reveal years la...

anecdote humorous intermediate
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The Painted Vase | 被粉刷的花瓶

A painter solves an impossible color-matching task by cleverly altering the original vase, not th...

anecdote fiction humorous
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The Beautiful Hat | 漂亮的帽子

Mr. Jones loses his hat out of a train window and throws his bag out too, believing that the addr...

beginner-english fiction humorous
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The Clever Sign | 巧妙的招牌

A shopkeeper outsmarts his price-slashing competitors by cleverly positioning his store as the ma...

business-strategy competition humorous
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The Kangaroo's Escape | 袋鼠的逃脱

A zoo repeatedly increases the height of a kangaroo's enclosure to prevent its escape, only to fi...

animal-fable beginner-english dialogue
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Perfect Match | 绝配

An eccentric matron demands her bedroom walls match her antique vase. A painter succeeds by paint...

fiction humorous intermediate
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How to Get a Seat by the Fire | 火炉旁的座位妙计

On a cold day, Mr. Brown cleverly diverts a crowded inn's patrons by claiming his horse eats oyst...

anecdote beginner english-reading
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Hairspray | 发胶妙用

A boy earns five dollars from his grandfather by using hairspray to stiffen a worm and put it bac...

anecdote family humorous
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