【文章內容簡介】 if you fail, you can buy a book which is called “How to turn a Failure into a Success.” If you would like to bee very rich, you can buy the book “How to make a Million.” If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called “How to live on nothing.”If you are unhappy with your life, you can read “How to Love Every Minute of Your Life.” There is even a book called “How to kill yourself.” Pianist and an Old Woman John was a very famous he was a small boy, he once played at a party in the home of a rich was only eight years old, but he had played the piano for several the party he playedafamous piece by played famous piece has several long rests in each of these rests he took his hands away from the piano and him this was very exciting, but the mother of the rich man thought , during one of these rests she came over to touched him on the head, smiled and said, “My boy, why don’t you play us what you know well?” favorite had a nice, blue loved it very much, but his wife didn’t like it because it was often said, “Give it to a poor man.” always said, “No, I like this coat.” Then one day a cigarette fell on it and made a hole in it, so said, “Please don’t wear it again.” took it to a small tailor’s shop and said to the tailor, “Please make another coat just like this one.” The tailor made the coat very carefully, then he lit a cigarette and made a hole in it in the same Miss Gray lived alone in an apartment was old and did not like noise at day a young man moved into the room above looks quiet, Miss Gray , at three o’clock the next morning, Miss Gray was woken up by the barking of a thought, I’ve never heard a dog here must belong to the new man in the room above he telephoned the young man, said some nasty things to him about the dog, then hung up the telephone before he could three o’clock the next morning, Miss Gray’s telephone she answered, the young man said, “I’m the man ’ve called to tell you that I haven’t got a dog.” is worried about her weight, so she goes to see a doctor.“Oh, I’m too fat, I need to lose a lot of weight.” “It isn’t difficult to lose weight,” the doctor says.“All you need to do is go on a ’ll give you one.” The doctor takes out a piece of paper and writes “Eat lots of fruit and , eat a lot of lean meat and grains.” The doctor hands the paper to .“Eat all those things and you’ll soon lose weight.”A few weeks later, ’s friend visits friend is surprised to see that is even fatter than before and she is eating a huge sandwich with chocolate and ice cream.“I thought you were on a diet,” her friend says.“Oh, I am.” answers.“I’ve already had all the food on my diet I’m having my dinner.” Cheap Mea A man goes into a restaurant and sits down at one of the waiter es up to him and gives him the man reads it carefully, then he orders all the most expensive a small boy es into the restaurant and sits at the man’s waiter es up and says to the man, “What will your little boy like, sir?” “Oh, just an ice cream,” the man tells he finishes his meal, the man stands up and says to the waiter, “I’m just going out to buy a newspaper.” He leaves the waiter gives the boy an ice boy eats it, and then stands up and walks to the waiter runs towards him.“Excuse me,” he says, “but your father hasn’t e back and he hasn’t paid for his meal or your ice ’d better stay here until your father es back and pays his bill.” “He’s not my father,” the boy says.“The man came up to me in the street and asked me if I liked ice told him I he told me to e into the restaurant at nine o’clock and sit at his said he would give me one.” Many people know what a puter is and what it can puter is fast and never makes mistakes, while people are slow and often make ’s what people often say when they talk about many years, scientists have improved a puter can do a lot of everyday work quite well, and people can use a puter in many puter scientists are now thinking of making the puter “think” like a the help of a person, a puter can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, and so a puter will think and fee one American Presidents There are stories about two , Andrew Jackson and Martin Van try to explain to people how the word “OK” came don’t know if either story is true, but they are both said that President Jackson could hardly read or important papers came to Jackson, he tried to read hem or asked his men to tell him what they he agreed, he would write “All correct” on the problem was that he did not know how to he wrote “OL Korekt” it was shortened to “OK”.Others said that President Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New Buren’s friends organized a club to help him bee called the club Old Kinderhook in the club was called “OK”. second day, the mother rat and her babies were having a good time in the open air when a cat came to catch them for mother rat noticed the cat ing mother rat and her babies all tried to run away at hurried to their was under the the baby rats were afraid of the couldn’t run very cat came closer and would e at them.“What shall I do?” thought the at that moment the mother rat stopped running, turned around and shouted at the cat, “!” just like an angry cat was so surprised and afraid that she ran mother rat turned to her babies,“Now you see how important it is to learn a second language!” snowman It39。s winter ’s very cold in the 39。s all white outside because it snowed wants to watch Miss Cat says, “Oh dear!It39。s very nice 39。s make a snowman.” Making a snowman isn’t very easy, so they work , how nice the snowman! puts his hat on the snowman39。s that, they are very lunch is some fish, some bones and a big says, “It39。s the middle of the snowman must be ’s give the cake to him.” “All right!” says Miss the snowman isn39。t can only see the is he? or unlucky When Barbara was fishing, she dropped her fell into the was sad because it was her best next day, Barbara went fishing put her hook into the she pull