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5)
John was not a very good pupil
John
was ten years old. He was not a very good pupil and did not like doing
homework because he preferred doing other things in his free time. Often he
did not do any homework at all, and when he did, there were always many
mistakes. One day, however, his math teacher saw that John had solved all the
tasks correctly. Being very satisfied and quite surprised, he called John to
his desk and said to him, "You did all your homework right this time,
John. What happened? Did your father help you?" Normally, John's father
did help him with his homework, but the night before, he had not been able to
because he had to stay in the office. So John replied, "No, he didn’t
because he was busy last night, so I had to do it all myself."
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4)
Twenty euros
John
and Tim worked for the same company. One day John lent Tim twenty euros, but
then Tim left the company and moved to another town without giving back John
his twenty euros. Not having seen Tim for a year John heard from another
friend that Tim was in town and staying at a downtown hotel. John went to see
him there late in the evening. He found out Tim's room number from the clerk
at desk downstairs and went up to find him. Having got there, he saw Tim's
shoes outside the door waiting to be cleaned. He thought that Tim had to be /
was in the room and knocked. There was no answer. He knocked again. Then he
said, "I know you're in, Tim, your shoes are out here." "I
went out in my slippers," answered a voice from inside the room.
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3)
Copies
A
clerk working in a small office at a company found that there were so many
files in his office that there was no room for any more. Additionally, each
file was so full that no more papers could be added. He knew he needed to
find room for several hundred papers every week, so something had to be done
about it. He thought for a long time and then decided to send his superior a
message explaining what had happened and to ask him for permission to go
through the old files and take out and destroy all the letters which were no
longer of any use. The next day he received an answer from his superior. It
read as follows: "All right, you have permission to do as you suggest,
but you must make copies of all letters and papers before destroying
them."
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2)
Ice-cream
One
summer afternoon Mrs Miller went to a big, local cinema. At the half-time
interval of the long film one could buy ice-cream. In general, she rarely
bought anything in the cinema, but this time feeling hot she said to herself
she needed an ice-cream. Many spectators queued in front of the girl who was
selling the ice-cream, so Mrs Miller waited for her turn. In front of her,
there was a small boy who, when it was his turn, offered the girl ten cents.
But the ice-cream cost twenty cents, so the girl said, "I'd like to ask
for another ten cent coin." The little boy put the coin in his pocket,
put his hand in another pocket, and pulled out another ten cents and handed
that to the girl. Mrs Miller was so amused that she paid the other ten cents
herself.
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1)
Two Spaniards
Two
Spaniards had accused each other of cheating, and both were getting angrier
and angrier. Jose threatened to kill Miguel. But Miguel just laughed and
suggested to meet in the park at five o'clock the next morning to fight duel.
But Jose thought it best to go to a quiet place in the countryside where the
police could neither see nor hear them. Miguel agreed and the next morning
they went to the train station together. Once there, Jose bought a return
ticket, but Miguel just a one-way ticket. Jose noticing it said, "Hoho!
Don’t you expect to come back?" "I never buy a return ticket,"
Miguel replied calmly, "I always use my opponent's other half."
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