My period started today, Ruth said. Brody could hear her sadness over the phone. Oh, Im sorry, honey. Thats too bad, Brody said. Until now, they both had assumed that she was pregnant, because her period was supposed to start three weeks ago. Brody h...
Whats that smell, Nadine wondered. She had bought a big piece of pork from the market four hours ago. As always, she smelled the pork after the butcher handed it to her. It had smelled fine. But now, it didn't. She cut into the other side of the pork...
Boy, we just wasted a whole morning, Roy complained over the phone to his middle-aged son. Roys wife had been scheduled for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam, because her shoulder had been bothering her for months. It had gotten to the point wh...
She was a babysitter in her home. She took care of 10 little children. They were not her little children. They were the sons and daughters of other people. She did not have a son. She did not have a daughter. She was not a mother. She was a babysitte...
Deborah was angry at her son. Her son didnt listen to her. Her son was 16 years old. Her son thought he knew everything. Her son yelled at Deborah. He told her he didnt have to do anything. He didnt have to listen to her. He didnt have to go to schoo...
英语作文 Why is one such a bad number? It is because when the date has this number in it, some bad thing always happens. Let me give you some examples. There midnight in Taiwan. The earthquake was very horrible. That night, there were about three th...
英语作文-中考 Directions： For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Is Stress a Bad Thing？ You should write no less than 150 words and base your composition on the outline （given in Chinese） below： 1.有的...
I should be out in that driveway Stoppin' you Tears should be rollin' down My cheek And I don't know why But I'm not fallin' apart like I usually do And how the thought of losin' you's Not killin me I feel bad That I can stand here strong, Cold as s...
If modern life is so wonderful, why do we feel so unhappy? In the following article, the author suggests that though living standards have improved, we, rather than feeling content, never become completely satisfied with what we have achieved. This...
Are you having a bad hair day? John: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning English. Im John. Helen: 大家好，我是 Helen. John: Today were going to look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Helen: 在地道英语里，...
