Jim is looking out of his window. He sees a man carrying a big colour TV out of his neighbor's (邻居的) house. He is carrying the TV to a truck(卡车).

Jim opens his window. " Hey !" he says to the man . "Are you a TV repairman? "

" Yes , " the man answers.   

"Are you going to repair (修理) that TV?" Jim asks.   

" Yes, "   the man answers again.     

" My TV is broken (坏了) , " Jim tells the man.   " Can you take my TV,   too?"     

" Sure,"   the man answers.     "I can take your TV . "     

Jim gives the man his TV. Then the man puts the two TVs in the truck and drives away. Jim never sees his TV again. That man isn't a TV repairman. He is a thief.

There was once a man called Mr. Flowers，and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glasshouses and grew flowers of every color，with long and difficult names，for competitions. He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup（银杯）for the Rose of the Year.

Mr. Flowers' glasshouses were very close to middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted（吸引）to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers' glasshouses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glasshouses at the beginning and end of the school day.

But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass，but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster，but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden，but the boys could run faster than he could，and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked all the stones that he could find around his garden，so that the boys would have nothing to throw，but they soon found others.

At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice made of good，strong wood，some meters away from the glasshouses. On it he had written the words:DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glasshouses.

One day a tiger caught a fox (狐狸) in the forest. Before eating him up, the fox cried out, “You can’t eat me. Don’t you know that I’m the king of the forest? If you eat me up, all the other animals in the forest will be flying into a rage with you.”

The tiger didn’t believe him. “How can such a small animal be the king of the forest?” he asked himself.

“If you don’t believe me,” the fox said, “then take a walk with me in the forest. You can see if they are afraid of me.”

The tiger thought it was a good idea, so the fox walked slowly in the forest and the tiger followed it. When the other animals saw them coming, they ran away as fast as they could.

“See for yourself, Mr. Tiger,” he called out quickly. “All the animals are afraid of me.”

“Yes, yes,” the tiger said. “You are quite right.” He then let the fox go.