68 Who’s the offender
Three young men replaying with a gun in the street in a quiet area of the town after dark. When one of them fired by mistake without aiming at anything. The bullet broke a window of an old lady’s house. The young men made up at once when they saw the damage they had done. But the old lady looked out of the window when she heard the explosion and she recognize one of them as the son of a man and woman who live not far from her. The old lady complaint to the police and the detective went to the young man’s house and found the gun. So he took the young man and his friends to the police station. There his chief officer question the young men to find out which of them own the gun. But none of them was willing to admit. Because they did not have a license for owning a gun. At last, the chief officer decided to put an end to the conversation. He turns to the detective and demanded to know whether he had got an officer’s permission to take the gun away from the young man who own it. “No sir,” he answered nervously, “I didn’t get it.” In that case, the officer declared angrily, you are quite wrong to take it away from him, you’d better return it immediately, or there will be trouble. This made the young men smiled happily at each other. As soon as the detective held the gun out and said “Here you are”, one of them put his hand out in order to get it back, that is how the officer finally discovered whom the gun belong to.作者: yula_crest 时间: 2008-7-15 20:05 标题: 背诵为王 第二册 第70课
70 rumor and gossip
You hear a juicy story from a friend, who heard it from another friend, who heard it from a person in the hall, who read it on a note pass in mid class which was written by somebody probably just made about it. Chances are, rumors and gossip are always rolling around your school or community, that’s totally normal. After all, everyone gossips, even parents, celebrities and politicians. It’s part of how we communicate and stay connected with other people’s wives. But what is the difference between a rumor and gossip? A rumor is a piece of information for a story that has not been clarified. Meaning, that the person telling it doesn’t know if it’s true or false. It might be true, it might be partly true and partly made up, or might be totally made up. Gossip are neither of them. It’s a little different. Gossip is talked then somehow juicy. Meaning it deals with subjects that are shocking or personal. Gossip is usually about things like love and relationships, or private things that people don’t talk openly about. When a piece of gossip is known be false, it a lie playing in symbol. If a piece of gossip about somebody is true, it can still be very hurtful. Because that information may be private and personal. Sometimes, rumors and gossip are harmless, but in other times, it can be very hurtful to individuals, friendships and whole groups of people. Did you know that spreading a rumor and gossip about someone is a formal offending? Yes.作者: 浪子情 时间: 2008-7-16 10:43
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