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Speed Limit | 限速

A story about an absurdly low speed limit on a military base and an even more absurd method of ca...

anecdote english-reading humorous
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How Did I Do? | 我干得怎么样?

A rookie officer proudly disperses a crowd from a corner, only for his veteran partner to reveal ...

anecdote beginner dialogue
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Never Mind | 虚惊一场

A drunk man mistakenly thought his car's controls were stolen after sitting in the back seat, cal...

anecdote beginner humorous
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Same Action, Same Result | 重蹈覆辙

Two hunters convince a pilot to overload a plane by citing a precedent from the previous year, le...

beginner folktale humorous
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The Trained Parrot | 训练有素的鹦鹉

Three sons compete to give their blind mother the best gift: a mansion, a luxury car, and a Bible...

english-reading family humor
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The Bathtub Test | 浴缸测试

A visitor learns the asylum's unconventional test for sanity, which reveals that overcomplicating...

critical-thinking humor life-lesson
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The Price of Deceit | 欺骗的代价

A dying farmer's final request for his wife to marry his neighbor reveals a clever plan for posth...

dialogue humor intermediate
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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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The Cyanide Watermelon Sign | 氰化物西瓜告示牌

A farmer tries to deter watermelon thieves with a fake cyanide warning, but the clever kids outwi...

anecdote humor intermediate
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To Prove It | 验证

A boy humorously insists a pound of lead is heavier than a pound of feathers, proposing a practic...

beginner critical-thinking dialogue
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The Sleeping Congregant | 打瞌睡的会众

A preacher tries to shame a sleeping congregant by calling for votes on heaven and hell, but the ...

anecdote beginner culture
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How His Pig's Doing | 他的猪怎么样了

Two mayors bet on a high school football game with tomatoes and potatoes as stakes. After overhea...

beginner dialogue humorous
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The Farmer and His Donkeys | 农夫与驴

A farmer forgets to count the donkey he is riding and believes he has lost one of his four purcha...

beginner english-learning folktale
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An Opponent Lost His Head | 对手丢了脑袋

A politician cleverly deflects a heckler's thrown cabbage by humorously remarking that an opponen...

anecdote beginner humor
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The French Art Thief | 法国艺术大盗

A Parisian art thief successfully stole paintings from the Louvre but was caught nearby after his...

crime english-learning french-culture
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Identification | 身份证明

A man uses a personal photograph as identification to successfully claim a registered letter from...

beginner dialogue everyday-life
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Hogarth's Red Sea | 霍迦斯的红海

Hogarth, commissioned to paint Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea, received only half his expected fee....

anecdote art-history artistic-expression
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Deep in the Hills | 深山之中

A reclusive old man mistakes his own reflection in a mirror for a portrait of his father and trad...

beginner fiction folktale
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The Misaddressed Email | 错发的邮件

A husband's vacation email to his wife is accidentally sent to a grieving widow, whose contents c...

emotional fiction intermediate
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Buy the Ice | 买冰记

A simpleton, sent to buy ice, delays returning home because he mistakenly believes he must dry th...

beginner folktale humor
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