14-04-29 I have only one piece of advice to you: Be the master of yourself. The pencil maker took the pencil aside just before putting him into the box. There are 5 things you need to know, he told the pencil, Before I send you out of into the world. Always...

14-04-19 A possible break in the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plane came when ships detected pings consistent with the aircraft's black box. But how does a black box actually work? 据报道，搜寻船只探测到疑似客机黑匣子的脉冲信号，这是失...

14-04-15 A man told his son to take a letter to the post office, buy a three-cent stamp and mail it. After a while his son returned. The man asked him, Did you mail the letter? His son replied, Certainly, and I have saved the three cents. I saw many people d...

14-01-10 据《今日美国报》1月2日报道，美国芝加哥一户人家当天收到了一份意外的圣诞礼物，寄件人竟是总统奥巴马一家。原来是邮局闹了大乌龙，将第一家庭送给女儿教母的相册寄错了地方。 A Chicago area family received an unexpected belated（迟来的） Christmas present thi...

13-12-05 Long, long ago the people lied very happily in the beautiful world, and nobody was ever sick. At that time there was a beautiful little girl named Pandora. One day a fairy gave her a wonderful box. It was tied with a golden cord and the fairy made h...

13-11-21 Movie attendance peaks during the holiday season, and studios capitalize on this by releasing dozens of new titles between the end of November and the new year, with much of a movie's box office success predicted by opening weekend. Though it would...

13-09-22 It was Mary's birthday. She received a letter from her uncle who was a farmer. Dear Mary, the letter said. Happy Birthday. I am sending you some chickens. They will arrive tomorrow. I hope you like them. Best wishes, Uncle Toby. Mary was very please...

13-08-09 Brother Bones Rose accepted her uncle's offer, as Aunt Myra discovered two or three days later. Coming in for an early call, and hearing voices in the study, she opened the door, gave a cry and shut it quickly, looking a good deal startled. The Doct...

13-03-22 In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was forced to go out on a sledge（雪橇） to fetch wood. When he had gathered it together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not to go home at once, but to light...

12-08-09 Innovative problem solving requires trying many different solutions. That's true for humans, and now Michigan State University researchers show that it's true for hyenas（土狼） , too. The study, published in the current issue of the Proceedings of...