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200 truyện ngắn tiếng anh hay nhất ( phần 4)
200 truyện ngắn tiếng anh hay nhất ( phần 4)
45. Wash Your Hands
Wash your hands. Wash your hands often. Wash your hands ten times a day. Clean
hands fight germs. Clean hands look good. Clean hands smell good. Everything
you touch has germs. Money has germs. Germs live on money for days. Paper
money is dirty. Metal money is dirty. Folding money is dirty. Coins are dirty.
Everyone touches money. Sick people touch money. Wash your hands after you
touch money. Door handles are dirty. Germs live on door handles for weeks.
Germs love door handles. Everyone touches door handles. Sick people touch door
handles. Wash your hands after you touch door handles. People are dirty. People
have germs. Germs love people. Germs live on people for months. Wash your
hands after you touch other people. Wash your hands after you hug other people.
Wash your hands after you shake hands with other people. Wash your hands, and
wash some more. You can't wash your hands too often.
46. She Writes Letters
She will write a letter to her grandma. She will write about her day at school. She
will write about her classmates. She will write about her teacher. She will write
about the classroom. She will write about her school bus. She will write about her
school bus driver. She won't write about her pets. She won't write about her fat
black cat. She won't write about her little red dog. She won't write about her soft
white rabbit. She won't write about her big brown horse. That's because she doesn't
have a big brown horse. Not yet. She wants a big brown horse for her birthday. She
will write a letter to her daddy about the horse. She will ask her daddy for a big
brown horse. A big brown horse will be a perfect birthday gift. She will never want
another birthday gift. A horse will make her happy forever. The letter to her daddy
will ask for a horse. Maybe daddy will give her a horse. Then she will write a new
letter to her grandma. She will tell grandma about the new brown horse.
47. A Bus Accident
There was a bus accident. The bus accident was near a dam. The bus ran off the
road. The bus tipped over. Two people died. Eight people were hurt. The bus
driver was going too fast. The road is a two-lane road. It is a narrow road. It isn't a
wide road. The road is not straight. It bends a lot. It curves a lot. The road looks
like a snake. The speed limit is 25 mph. The bus was going 50 mph. The
passengers were afraid. The bus ran into a guard rail. Then the bus tipped over.
Passengers yelled. Passengers screamed. Passengers fell down. Passengers fell on
other passengers. Luggage flew through the air. Luggage hit people. Luggage hit
people in the face. Luggage hit people in the head. The windows broke. The
windshield broke. Glass was everywhere. Bodies were everywhere. Luggage was
everywhere. The ambulances came. They took people to the hospital. The police
came. They took the driver to jail.
48. A Headache
He has a headache. His headache started an hour ago. His head feels like it will
explode. Of course, his head wouldn't explode. It just feels that way. The headache
is in the back of his head. That is where his headaches usually are. Sometimes he
has headaches on the top of his head. Sometimes he has headaches in the front of
his head. Sometimes his headaches are between his eyes. Sometimes his whole
head hurts. But usually the back of his head hurts. His headache started while he
was reading. Reading causes headaches for him. He hates his headaches, but he
loves to read. He reads for only 15 minutes. Then he stops reading. He takes a
break. If he reads for 16 minutes, he'll get a headache. So he tries to take a break
every 15 minutes. But sometimes he forgets to take his break. Today he forgot to
take a break. Now he must wait until the headache goes away. It will take an hour
or two. Then he can read again. But right now he must live with the pain.
49. She's So Hungry
She likes magazines. She likes to look at the pretty photos. Magazines have photos
of people. They have photos of animals. They have photos of clothes. They have
photos of food. She sees a photo of a hamburger. It looks so delicious. The photo
of the hamburger makes her hungry. She goes to the refrigerator. She opens it. She
wants a hamburger. But there is no hamburger in the refrigerator. The hamburger is
at McDonald's. But she is a little kid. She can't drive to McDonald's. She can't call
McDonald's, because they don't deliver. A hamburger place is not like a pizza
parlor. A pizza parlor delivers. Her mom was at work. She would have to wait until
mom came home. Mom would drive her to McDonald's. She sat down again. She
turned the page. There was a photo of chocolate ice cream. The ice cream was in a
cone. Oh, what a beautiful photo. She licked her lips. It looked so delicious. Mom,
please come home soon, she thought.
50. Basketball in LA
Many people love to watch basketball. The Lakers are a great basketball team. The
Clippers are a terrible basketball team. Both teams call Los Angeles their home.
They play at the Staples Center. The Staples Center is new. It is a shiny new arena.
It is in downtown Los Angeles. It is next to two freeways. It is next to the 110
freeway. It is next to the 10 freeway. The 110 goes north and south. The 10 goes
east and west. Many basketball fans take the freeways to Staples Center. They
drive their cars on the crowded freeways. The crowded freeways have too many
cars. The fans park their cars in the huge parking lot. Parking is not cheap. It is
$22. The fans walk to the arena from the parking lot. They buy their tickets. The
cheap tickets are $10. The expensive tickets are $2,600. Rich people buy the
expensive tickets. Poor people buy the cheap tickets. The rich people sit very close
to the basketball court. They talk to the players. The poor people sit far away from
the basketball court. They talk to each other.
51. A Hard Head
A woodpecker is a bird. It is red, white, and black. It has a long sharp beak. This is
a special beak. It is stronger than a tree trunk. The woodpecker makes holes in tree
trunks. It hits the tree trunk with its sharp beak, again and again. Peck, peck, peck.
Peck, peck, peck. It makes a hole in the tree trunk. Then it makes the hole bigger.
It makes the hole big enough to sit in. It makes the hole big enough for two birds to
sit in. It makes a nest in the hole. It prepares the nest for two baby birds. The mama
woodpecker lays two eggs in the nest. She sits on the eggs. Papa woodpecker
brings her food. The eggs hatch. Then mama and papa feed the babies. The babies
grow up and fly away. Then they find other trees. They make holes in other trees
for new baby birds. They make new holes in different trees. Peck, peck, peck.
Peck, peck, peck. Why don't the woodpeckers get headaches? They hit their beaks
against a tree trunk all day long. But you never see a woodpecker take aspirin.
They must have very hard beaks. They must have very hard heads.
52. Homeless People
Los Angeles is a big city. There are millions of people here. But thousands of
people have no home. They are homeless people. They live on the sidewalks. They
sleep on the sidewalks. They are called street people. They don't have cars. They
have shopping carts. They fill the carts with their belongings. They put their extra
clothes into the carts. They put their blankets into the carts. Many homeless people
live downtown. They live near the newspaper building. They live near the
courthouse. They live near fancy condos. They have no money. They sit on the
sidewalk all day. People walk by them. They ask people for money. People say
they don't have any money. There are missions downtown. These missions feed
homeless people. They give them free lunches. They feed them every day. Some
missions have beds. Homeless people sleep in these beds. But there are more
homeless people than beds. There are not enough beds for the homeless people. So
most homeless people sleep on the sidewalk. They sleep next to their shopping
carts.
53. A Day at the Beach
She was new in town. The town was near the ocean. She wanted to visit the beach.
She had a new friend. She asked her new friend to take her to the beach. Her friend
said okay. They went to the beach. It was a hot sunny day. The beach was
crowded. They put a big towel on the sand. They walked down to the water. They
stepped into the water. They got their feet wet. They went back to their towel.
They sat on the towel. They looked at the boats and surfers. They looked at the
seagulls. They saw some dolphins. A lifeguard walked by. He said hello. He talked
to them for a minute. They stayed at the beach all afternoon. They talked with each
other. They watched many people having fun. They watched the sun go down. It
was huge and orange. It sank into the ocean. They shook the sand out of the towel.
They folded the towel and walked back to the car. "That was wonderful," she told
her friend. "I like the beach. Thank you for taking me to the beach today."
54. Thank You, Mom
I love my mom. She took care of me when I was very young. She took care of me
when I was sick. She taught me how to read. She taught me how to get dressed.
She taught me how to button my shirt. She taught me how to tie my shoes. She
taught me how to brush my teeth. She taught me to be kind to others. She taught
me to tell the truth. She taught me to be polite. She took me to school on my first
day of school. She held my hand. She helped me with my homework. She was nice
to all my friends. She always cheered me up. Next year I will graduate from high
school. I will go to college. I will do well in college. I will do well after college.
My mom has taught me well.
55. The Check for Rent
He is looking at the calendar. Today is January 30. It is Friday. Tomorrow will be
Saturday. Tomorrow will be the last day of the month. Sunday will be the first day
of next month. Sunday will be the first day of February. He must pay his rent on
the first day. He will write a check tonight. He will take the check to his landlord
on Sunday. The landlord will be happy to get the check on time. The landlord will
be angry if the check is late. The landlord will kick him out if the check is late. He
doesn't care why a check is late. Late is late. The landlord does not accept excuses.
No excuse will please the landlord. All excuses are bad excuses. A late check is
like bad news. Nobody likes bad news. The landlord will tell him, "Goodbye. Go
find another apartment. Have a nice life in your new apartment. You can't live here
anymore. Your check was late."
56. At the Casino
She went to the casino. A casino is a gambling house. People gamble in a casino.
They take a chance with their money. They hope they will win. Sometimes they
do. But usually they lose. It was her birthday. She took $100 to the casino. She
went to the change booth. She got change for her money. She got 400 quarters for
her $100. The quarters were in paper rolls. Forty quarters were in each roll. She put
the rolls into a plastic bucket. She carried the bucket over to a slot machine. She
loved slot machines. She opened a roll of quarters. She put a quarter in the
machine. She pulled down on the handle. She looked at the screen. Give me three
cherries, she thought. Or give me three bananas. Or give me three apples. Three of
anything is a winner. Two cherries, or one cherry, is a loser. She played for several
hours. Sometimes she won. She felt good when she won. But usually she lost.
Finally, she lost all her quarters. She went home. She spent $100, but she had fun. I
will play again on my next birthday, she thought.
57. Life is a Rainbow
We do not live in a black and white world. We live in a rainbow world. Colors are
everywhere. Colors are beautiful. A toilet bowl is white. A panda is white and
black. A crow is black. The sky and the ocean are blue. An apple is red or green.
An orange is always orange, but the sun is sometimes orange. A stop light is red,
yellow, and green. A lemon is yellow. People are white, brown, or black. Fishes
and birds are many different colors. Hair is white, gray, brown, black, or red. A
golf ball and a baseball are white. A basketball is orange. A tennis ball is green. A
fire engine is red. A police car is black and white. The moon and the stars are
white. Grass is green, but dirt is brown. A fried egg is yellow and white. Your
blood is red. Your teeth are white. A stop sign is red and white. You cannot talk
about colors to blind people. They have never seen colors. That is sad.
58. Squares and Circles
Different shapes and forms are everywhere. Boxes and street signs are square or
rectangular. Balls and wheels are round. The sun and moon are round. Wedding
rings are round. Eggs and light bulbs are almost round. Pyramids and arrow tips
are triangular. Tables and books are square or rectangular. Doors and refrigerators
are rectangular. A stop sign has eight sides. A triangle has three sides. Pencils and
pens are long and round. Your toes are short and round. Many things have various
shapes. Humans and animals have various shapes. Faces have various shapes.
Clouds have various shapes. Houses and buildings have various shapes. Airplanes
have various shapes. Other things have weird shapes. Bicycles and tricycles have
weird shapes. Countries have weird shapes. Tools and machines have weird
shapes. Shapes can be beautiful, too. Boys think that a skateboard or a soccer ball
has a beautiful shape. Men think that women have the most beautiful shape of all.
59. Don't Be Stupid
Why do people do stupid things? Some people try to walk across freeways. They
get run over. Some people stand on the edge of cliffs. They slip and fall to their
death. Some people think a gun is not loaded. They point the gun at a friend. They
pull the trigger. They kill their friend. Some people want to watch a storm up close.
They go to the ocean. They feel the wind. They see the big waves. They are
excited. Then a big wave takes them out to sea. They drown. Many people drop out
of school. They say that school is boring. They want to have fun. School is not fun.
They hate homework. They get a job at McDonald's. All day long they ask the
customers, "Do you want fries with that?" Is that fun? No, but it is stupid. Some
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