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    Then the white rabbit saw Alice.

    “What are you doing here, Mary Ann?” he asked. “Go home right away and bring me a fan and a pair of white gloves.”

    Alice was too afraid to tell him she was not Mary Ann, a servant. So she ran off.

    “I'll try and find his fan and gloves,” she thought when she ran.

    She soon came to a little house. There was a name on the door, “W. Rabbit.”

    She went inside without knocking on the door. “How strange this all is!” she thought. “I am running errands for a rabbit. Perhaps Dinah will ask me to run errands for her.”

    She ran up the stairs into a little bedroom, and there she found a pair of gloves and a fan. She picked them up and was going to leave when she saw a bottle. It was near a looking glass. On the side of the bottle were the words “Drink me.”

    “I'll drink some,” Alice thought. “Perhaps it will make me grow again. I am tired of being so small.”

    She quickly drank half the bottle. Before she could get out of the little house, she started to grow. Soon, she was so big, she could not move in the room.

    “That was a silly (傻的) thing to do,” she thought. “Why didn't I take the bottle with me and drink from it outside the house?”

    This story happened four years ago. Tom was seven years old then. He was a good boy. He was one of the best pupils in his class. But he could not get up early. He often slept until nine or ten o'clock in the morning. So he was often late for school.

    Tom's mother didn't want him to be late for school. So she bought him a clock. She said to Tom, “You must get up when you hear the clock ring.”

    “Yes, Mum,” said Tom. After that Tom got up at six thirty when he hear the clock ring.

    One day his mother forgot to make the clock ring at the usual time. And the next morning Tom didn't get up at six thirty. It was time for breakfast. Mother went to see him. Tom was still in bed and his eyes were open.

    “Why didn't you get up?” Mother asked angrily.

    “You told me to get up when I heard the clock ring. So I am waiting for the bell. Mum, is the clock still sleeping?” Tom answered.

    It's very hot. An old man is sleeping on the chair. A fly(苍蝇) comes and sits on the end of the man's nose.The old man has a naughty monkey. He chases(驱赶) the fly.

    The fly comes back again and sits on the old man's nose again. The monkey chases it away again and again.

    This happens five or six times. The monkey is very angry. He jumps up, runs to the garden and picks up a large stone.

    When the fly sits on the old man's nose again, the monkey hits it hard with the stone.

    He kills the fly and breaks the old man's nose.

Misunderstandings

    A man, wearing dirty clothes, with dirty hair and only 35 cents in his pocket, got on a bus and headed straight for the restroom. He thought that if he hid in the restroom, he could ride to New York without paying. But a passenger at the back of the bus saw him. She tapped(拍)the person in front of her on the shoulder and said, "There's a bum in the restroom. Tell the bus driver. "That passenger tapped the person sitting in front of him. "Tell the bus driver there's a bum in the restroom," he said.

    The message was passed from person to person until it reached the front of the bus. But somewhere along the way, the message changed. By the time it reached the bus driver, it was not "There's a bum in the restroom" but "There's a bomb(炸弹)in the restroom. "The driver pulled over to the side of the highway(高速公路)at once and called the police. When the police arrived, they told the passengers to get off the bus and stay far away. Then they closed the highway. That soon caused a 15-mile-long traffic jam. With the help of a dog, the police searched the bus for two hours. Of course, they found no bomb.

    Two similar-sounding English words also caused trouble for a man who wanted to fly from Los Angeles to Oakland, California. His problems began at the airport in Los Angeles. He thought he heard his flight announced, so he walked to the gate, showed his ticket, and got on the plane. Twenty minutes after take-off, the man began to worry. Oakland was north of Los Angeles, but the plane seemed to be heading west, and when he looked out his window all he could see was ocean. "Is this plane going to Oakland? "he asked the flight attendant. "No, "she said. "We're going to Auckland-Auckland, New Zealand."

    Because so many English words sound similar, misunderstandings among English-speaking people are not uncommon. Most misunderstandings are much less serious. Every day, people speaking English ask one another questions like these: "Did you say seventy or seventeen?" "Did you say that you can come or that you can't?"

    Similar-sounding words can be especially confusing（混淆）for people who speak English as a second language. When a Korean woman who lives in the United States arrived at work one morning, her boss asked her, "Did you get a plate?" "No." she answered, wondering what in the world he meant. She worked in an office. Why did the boss ask her about a plate? All day she wondered about her boss's strange question, but she was too embarrassed to ask him about it. At five o'clock, when she was getting ready to go home, her boss said, "Please be on time tomorrow.

You were 15 minutes late this morning." "Sorry," she said. "My car wouldn't start, and…"

    Suddenly she stopped talking and began to smile. Now she understood. Her boss hadn't asked her, "Did you get a plate?" He had asked her, "Did you get up late?"

    Auckland and Oakland. "A plate" and" up late". When similar-sounding words cause a misunderstanding, probably the best thing to do is just to laugh and learn from the mistake. Of course, sometimes it's hard to laugh. The man who traveled to Auckland instead of Oakland didn't feel like laughing. But even that misunderstanding turned out all right in the end. The airline paid for the man's hotel room and meals in New Zealand and for his flight back to California. "Oh well, "the man later said. "I always wanted to see New Zealand."

I am Frank. I lost my pencil box this morning. I look for it everywhere but I can't find it. So I ask my friend Linda for help. She doesn't know where it is. She says I can go to the lost and found box in the library to find it. After lunch, I go to the library.

I meet my classmates Lucy and Bob there. Lucy lost her ID card and Bob lost his soccer ball in P.E. class and they found them in the lost and found box. When I get to the lost and found box, I see Mrs. Wang there.

I ask, "Excuse me, Mrs. Wang, is my blue pencil box here?"

"Here are two blue pencil boxes. What's in your pencil box?" she asks.

"There is a black pen, a red pen, a yellow pencil, an eraser ... And there is a photo of my family. My parents, my sister and I are in the photo." I say.

"Let me see. This is yours. Here you are." Mrs. Wang says.

"Can I know who hands(交) it in here? I want to thank him / her," I ask.

"A student does. But I don't know the name."

I say "Thank you very much" to Mrs. Wang and get my pencil box from her. I say to myself, "I must help others(别人), too."

A group of boys stand around a tree. "1 tall tree!" they say to each other. "It will be exciting to climb to the top."

The boys then decide to play a game to see who 2 climb to the top of the tree first. One of the climbers is 3 8-year-old boy named David. He is 4 child in the group. Nobody thinks he will win.

Then the game starts. All of the boys try their best to climb as 5 as they can. Though the other boys climb faster than David 6 the beginning, he gets to the top of the tree fastest in the end.

His mother is proud. She asks him, "David, 7 do you reach the top of the tree so quickly?"

"It is easy," David says. "8 children keep looking down as they climb. When they realize how high they are, they are afraid of falling down. However, I only look up. When I see how close I am to the top, I keep going higher and higher until I 9 the top."

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without 10 back, we are more likely to reach our goals.