One Engine Left A 747 was halfway across the Atlantic when the captain got on the loud speaker, Attention, passengers. We have lost one of our engines, but we can certainly reach London with the three we have left. Unfortunately, we will arrive an hour la...

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Virtue Many years after receiving my graduate degree, I returned to the State University of New York at Binghamton as a faculty member(大学教学人员). One day in a crowded elevator, someone remarked on its inefficiency. I said the elevators had not changed in th...

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Car Accident A woman and a man are involved in a car accident; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished(破坏；损坏) but amazingly neither of them are hurt. After they crawl(爬；爬行) out of their cars, the woman says, So you're a man, that's inter...

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Apple and Worm What did the apple say to the worm? You're boring me. 双关语：bore (v.使烦扰, 钻孔)...

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No Ears There was a man who was in a horrible accident, and was injured. But the only permanent damage he suffered was the amputation(切除；截肢) of both of his ears. As a result of this unusual handicap(障碍；不利条件), he was very self-conscious about his having no...

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Taken for Granted THE SCHOOL HEALTH FORMS had been distributed to the students with an error---the word Sex had been spelled with an o. One mother, filling out the form for her son, wrote in the blank next to Sox: Usually brown. 理所当然 某学校发给学生的健康调查表里有个错别字——...

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An equal distribution of human rights will promote rather than encumber economic development The ultimate goal of socialism is complete liberation of man. For that, governments should undoubtedly protect the basic human rights of citizens and their equal ...

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HANGZHOU - To many Chinese officials at the county and city levels, the newly released half-year evaluation reports on energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) make for grim reading. Sun Yunyao, head of Shaoxing county government in eas...

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The city of Montpellier in the south of France is planning to build 10 bronze statues in honor of the "great men of the 20th century," and Chairman Mao Zedong, who declared the founding of New China, is among the 10, China News Agency reported Wednesday. ...

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People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced Tuesday a pilot scheme for the Renminbi Clearing Bank and other eligible institutions outside the mainland to invest in the interbank bond market. Under the pilot scheme, the Clearing Bank and Participating Banks of...

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