很多上小学五年级的学生都喜欢阅读英语小故事，特别是喜欢看不仅仅有趣还很简单的英文小故事。
Two girls were trick-or-treating on Halloween night when a large group of teens attacked them, leaving both high school seniors unconscious. One needed surgery to repair her eye socket.
The victims were white, and their attackers were black. Seven attackers were girls, and one was an 18-year-old boy. The boy said that he did not attack the girls; he tried to protect them.
"So why were you swinging a skateboard?" asked a witness. The boy said that he was swinging the skateboard at the attackers, not the victims.
The prosecution added "hate crime" to the charge of assault because racial slurs were made before the victims were attacked.
The trial in Long Beach lasted almost four weeks. All the attackers were found guilty, but not one spent even a day in jail. The judge sentenced them to "house arrest" for a month. House arrest meant that they had to sleep in their own beds at home. The boy had to do 20 hours of community service.
Law-abiding white and black adults were outraged at the light sentences. The two girls required hospital care, yet the thugs received a mere slap on the wrist. Concerned parents immediately created a website for recalling the judge.
At a wedding, a little boy asked his mother, "Mommy, why does the girl wear white ? "She answered, "The bnde wears white because this is the happiest day of her life."The boy thought about this and said, "Why is the groom wearing black ? "
Three men were bragging about how smart their cats are. The first man was an Accountant, the second man was a Chemist, the third was a Government Worker.
To show off, the Accountant called his cat and said, "Spreadsheet, do your stuff." Spreadsheet went out into the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into 3 equal piles of 4 cookies each. Everyone agreed that was good.
But the Chemist said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, "Measure, do your stuff." Measure got up, walked over to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a 10 ounce glass from the cupboard and poured exactly 8 ounces without spilling a drop. Everyone agreed that was good.
Then the two men turned to the Government Worker and said, "What can your cat do?" The Government Worker called to his cat and said, "Coffee Break, do your stuff." Coffee Break jumped to his feet, ate the cookies, drank the milk, peed on the paper, assaulted the other three cats, claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions, put in for Workers Compensation and went home for the rest of the day on sick leave.
Recently, three owls appeared suddenly on our campus. They made me think of my pet from childhood. When I was little, we had an owl at home. It was small, gray, and had two big eyes. We liked it very much. Every time I went home, it greeted me by making “goo-goo” sounds.
We always played with it and talked to it. It would blink its eyes just like it understood what we were saying. It was like my best friend. But when the weather became colder, we forgot to keep it warm, and it died. It made us sad for a long time, and it also taught me how important it is to take care of animals.
Deep within a forest a little turtle began to climb a tree. After hours of effort he reached the top,jumped into the air waving his front legs and crashed to the ground. After recovering,he slowly climbed the tree again,jumped,and fell to the ground. The turtle tried again and again while a couple of birds sitting on a branch watched his sad efforts.
Finally,the female bird turned to her mate.
"Dear," she chirped,"I think its time to tell him hes adopted."
A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn't this a very foolish way to look for a sword?
I am a pure and lively girl who loves learning. To experience happiness in growing up and to recall the past in growing up is nothing more than my happiness.
The footprints of growth accompany me to the present. Looking back, I was a babbling child at that time. Gradually I grew up. I played and studied with my friends, sat in the classroom together, and received the teacher's education. The success in learning can always be shared with classmates. We are making progress together, and the happiness of students can never be better.
Donny is a seven year old boy. He goes to school every day. The school is near his home. So he goes there on foot and comes back home on time. But today, he is late. His mother asks him, “Why do you go to the headmaster’s office?”“Because the teacher asks us a question in class and nobody can answer it, but I can.”“It’s good to answer the teacher’s question.”“But the question is ‘Who pours ink on my chair?’”
The fire started Saturday afternoon. Fire officials didn’t yet know how it started, but they suspected arson. Arsonists listen to weather reports. They get excited when they hear that the Los Angeles area is going to have Santa Ana winds, which can blow steadily at 30 mph and gust to 60 mph.
Planes dropped flame retardant around the southern edge of the fire to protect houses closest to the foothills. On the radio, a reporter said the fire had consumed 100 acres. Fire officials thought that the fire would be out within 24 hours, if the Santa Ana winds didn’t start blowing.
At 10:30 Saturday evening, Adam walked downtown to see if he could get a better view of the fire. He had never seen his small town so crowded on a Saturday night. Everyone was watching the fire. He got a great view with his binoculars. Even though downtown was windless, he saw flames that looked like they must have been 50 or 60 feet high. The winds had picked up in the foothills. The red flames stood out clearly against the night sky. At 11 p.m., fire officials announced a mandatory evacuation of about 100 homes north of Carter Avenue.
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has ever seen a snake with feet?" The story of "Draw a snake and add feet to It." tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: "Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us."
every child is surrounded by the deep mother love. however, we often turn a blind eye to the love. one day i deeply felt the love.
one day i hurried home for lunch after school, because there would be an exam in the afternoon and i had expected to go back to school early to prepare for the exam. but when i got home, the lunch was not ready yet. i felt unhappy.
when the dishes were served, i forund none i like. i ran out of my house angrily and wanderde on the street for a while,hungry. then i walked to school.
when i got into the classroom, i saw a lunch box on my desk. one classmate told me that it was my mother ther that had brought it here.after opening the box, i found my favorite food inside. my eyes was moist with tears.
mother gave me her love without asking for return, how deep mother love is!
a little boy invited his mother to attend his elementaryschool’sfirst teacher-parent conference. to the little boy sdismay, shesaid she would go.
this would be the first time that hisclassmatesand teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed byherappearance. although she was a beautiful woman, there was aseverescar that covered nearly the entire center side of her face.the boynever wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar.
at the conference, the people were impressed by the kindnessandnatural beauty of his mother despite the scar, but the littleboywas still embarrassed and hid himself from everyone. hedid,however, get within earshot of a conversation between hismotherand his teacher, and heard them speaking.
how did you get the scar on your face? the teacher asked. the mother replied, when my son was a baby, he was in a roomthatcaught on fire .
everyone was too afraid to go in because thefirewas out of control, so i went in. as i was running toward hiscrib ,i saw a beam coming down and i placed myself over him tryingtoprotect him. i was knocked unconscious but fortunately, afiremancame in and saved both of us. she touched the burned sideof herface. this scar will be permanent 8, but to this day, ihave neverregretted doing what i did.
at this point, the little boy came out running towards hismotherwith tears in his eyes. he hugged her and felt anoverwhelmingsense of the sacrifice that his mother had made forhim. he heldher hand tightly for the rest of the day.
The crowd at the airport surged forward. The passengers had been waiting for a couple of hours for an airline employee to open the door leading to the plane outside. No one was in a good mood. An old man got trapped in the middle of the rush. He fell down without being able to break his fall. His head hit the concrete floor. Blood gushed from his forehead. He appeared to be unconscious. Everyone rushed past him, except for Dana. She called for help.
A minute later, a young airline employee showed up. Hardly looking at the old man, she told Dana to get aboard her plane. She said the old man would be okay, and walked away.
Dana screamed for help. An airport supervisor appeared. He told Dana to get on the plane. Dana said that she was not moving until an ambulance arrived. The supervisor said her plane would leave without her. Dana said that she didn’t care.
An ambulance and two paramedics finally arrived. The paramedics said that the man would be okay, but he would need stitches. They put him into the ambulance and drove off.
On her way out to the plane, which was still refueling, Dana saw the employee who had initially ignored the old man. The employee said, “You’re lucky the plane didn’t leave without you.”
“The plane?” Dana asked. “Who cares about the plane? How could you be so cold? That was an old man; he could have been your grandfather! How would you like it if everyone just stepped over your grandfather and went on their way?”
Stephen Hawking is famous all around the word, I get to know him when I was in high school, I learned him from the English book. Though Hawking is disabled at the early age, he never gives up and continues to woke on his job, finally he becomes the great man. Hawking’s story inspires so many people, his spirit gives people the enlightenment.
As the movie The Theory of Everything is put into the screen, Stephen Hawking comes to people’s eyesight again. The movie is about Hawking’s life from college to his present life, his love story with his first wife is the main line of the story. Hawking’s wife companied with him after knowing his disease, Hawking’s great success owes partly to his wife’s caring.
Besides the support from family, Hawking’s spirit of never giving up makes him success. After knowing the horrible disease, he chose to face it and struggle with it, he continued to keep his study, finally he makes different and becomes the great man.
Hawking’s story is so inspiring, his legend is still going on. The enlightenment he gives to people is very precious.
An old man was laying on his death bed. He had only hours to live when he suddenly smelled chocolate chip cookies. He loved chocolate chip cookies more than anything else in the world. With his last bit of energy, he pulled himself out of bed, across the floor, and to the stairs. Then down the stairs and into the kitchen. There his wife was baking chocolate chip cookies. As he reached for one, he got SMACKED across the back of his hand by the wooden spoon his wife was holding. "Leave them alone!" she said, "They're for the funeral!"
i got up late this morning and went to school without feeding my cats.when i came home in the afternoon, the cats almost starved to death. they circled around me and crying for food. i took one fish out and threw it to the cats. i wanted to see who was the first one to catch the fish.
mother cat held it in her mouth and nm away quickly. she didn't eat it, but put it down, then called her children there. the four starving little cats began to devour the fish, but their mother just stayed there looking at them tenderly,without eating a little bit. on seeing that, i thought of my mother. she often does everything for me selflessly. this is a mother's love, i think.
on the tree doing nothing all a day.A small rabbit saw the crow,and asked him:"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?" the crow answered:"sure ,why not?" So the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow,and rested.All of a sudden. A fox appeared,jumped on the rabbit and ate it .moral of the story is :To be sitting and doing nothing ,you must be sitting very very high up!
The Bank of france. Now the young Sarto was unemployed and had fifty-one job rejection, when his fifty-second job rejection to go out, find a needle head of the bank on the doorstep, he bent down to pick it up.
The second day, he received a notification of the bank.
Originally, he squatted down to pick up the needle scene is just the banks chairman saw. The chairman believes that the bank engaged in work, are in need of such spirit of Rafael Sarto.
Maybe he is not a lucky million, but you can guarantee this luck will not come upon you? I believe the success of him, including the Bank of France and finally become the king. He is not only because of his good luck, but the key is that he fully prepared. It is not a temporary move his needle, and he should be good to follow up the details of an attitude. That is to say, if you know the details of the implementation details of the Rafael Sarto spirit you have found the details, dont you succeed?
Ants were once men and made their living by tilling the soil. But, not content with the results of their own work, they were always eating longing eyes upon the crops and fruits of their neighbours, which they stole, whenever they got the chance, and added to their own store. At last their
covetousness made Jupiter so angry that he changed them into ants. But, though their forms were changed, their nature remained the same: and so, to this day, they go about among the cornfields and gather the fruits of others' labour, and store them up for their own use.
You may punish a thief, but his bent remains.
Early in the morning, no matter the one I came to a narrow alley. Boring kick stones, perhaps the winter grandfather saw me is boring, so he sent many winter little angel to play rock with me. "Ah! I'm sorry!" I am ashamed to say, originally I have kicked the stone to the feet of others, I am still ashamed low head. The man hesitated before answering me and said: "never mind, can you buy a box of matches?"
I hear the line how so familiar, oh! I think of it, is the little match girl in the fairy kingdom. I suddenly looked up, that's her, she was wearing a shabby dress, above there are faintly visible sew traces, but also really like the fairy tale book as like as two peas, she just wearing a shabby unfit big slippers, left hand also hung a large bamboo basket, and filled with matches, drape on the matches is a fading pink cloth, it can faintly see a line of words: mother always accompany in your side. Because of cold winds, which spend my eyes are in a withering stage. The girl looked at with a look of entreaty I seemed to say: "you sell one, or even a few root."
I feel my tears have filled my eyes, I tried not to cry. Quickly from the pocket to find three coins only, in her hand, she gratefully said: "thank you, thank you." She took from her basket with a large box of matches.
“Eminent domain” is the power of the government to take private property and use it for the public good. Government officials simply notify a property owner that they want his property and offer him a fair price. The owner can accept or reject that offer. If he thinks the offer is too low, he can go to court. In court, a jury will decide the fair price, which the government must pay.
Usually, the owner cannot prevent the government from taking his land for public use, which includes roads, schools, government buildings, and economic development. However, the US Supreme Court recently expanded the meaning of “economic development” to include the construction of shopping centers, amusement parks, and even car washes. Property owners nationwide are now at greater risk of losing their property for the “private” good instead of the “public” good. They will see their land converted to Burger Kings and Chevy dealerships instead of post offices and parks.
Just last week, the Ozark city council demanded that Johnny Miller sell all his land to the city.
“It isn’t right,” said Miller. “My family has owned this property for four generations. We grow crops and raise cattle. We’re active in Ozark’s social clubs and civic groups. Now the council wants to kick us out so that Walt Disney can build a new theme park here. I’m not selling. I’m going to fight this--since when is a mouse more important than an American family?”
New York city is the first city of America. It has many famous buildings, we can see these landmarks in the movie all the time. The empire state building is one of the tourist sites, most people will think of the movie King Kong. I also know about this building from the movie. King Kong was captured by the bad guys and was brought to the New York city. Compared with the human beings, King Kong was more like human beings. He fell in love with a girl and spared no effort to rescue the girl from all kinds of dangers. The scene of King Kong , sitting in the tall building, watching the sunset was so touching, but later this peace was break by human, at last, King Kong fell down and died. People said he died for the beauty, which makes it a legend.
Many years ago, the movie The Pirates of the Caribbean was very popular around the world When the third episode came out, it seemed that the story had came to its end, because the ending was perfect though a little sad for the two main charaters If the movie continued, it may probably sucked It still caught people’s attention and won many praise We still believe that the story has its charm and can attract people to buy tickets.
Once there was a little ant. She wanted to get married, but she only wanted to marry the strongest creature.
She wanted to marry the strongest creature, but she didn’t know who the strongest creature is. She saw the wind blow houses down. So she thought the wind was the strongest creature. She wanted to marry the wind.
But the wind told the little ant that ht wasn’t the strongest creature. There was a tower in the forest. He had stood there for a thousand years against his force. The tower was the strongest creature.
“Why do you want to marry me?” the wind asked.
“Because you are the strongest creature in the world. You are strongest than the wind.” said the ant.
“You are right. I’m strongest than the wind. But I’m not the strongest creature in the world. Look, how I’m damaged! Can’t you guess who has done this to me? It’s you, ants.”
At last, the little ant married her own kind. Because they were the strongest creatures.
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