短小有趣的英语文章一，The easiest question in the worldone day , a rich man met Sam. the rich man asked , " I`ve heard you are very clever and nothing is difficult to you. Can you tellme why you are so clever."Sam answered, "I`m not clever, but you are too silly." The richman became very angry.Sam said, "Sir, please don`t be angry, if you don`t believe what I said, let me ask you a question now. If you have a group of sheep, I give you another group. How groups of sheep do you have?" "Why, that`s the easiest question in the world, one and one is two.Anybody knows that. I have two groups of sheep. " Sam laughed and said," You are wrong, sir.two groups of sheep put together is still one group. That is easiest question in theworld."二，I`ll not go home tonight because of the rainWhen a friend was visiting David, it began to rain. So David told him not to go home that night."You may stay here for the night," he said." Ok, " answered his friend.But a few minutes later, the friend went out. He didn`t tell David where he was going nor did he ask for an umbrella. When David was about to go to bed, his friend returned, he was all wetthrough."Where have you been?" asked David. "I have been home," answered the friend, " to tell my brother that I`ll not go hometonight because of the rain."三，Why do I want to go to colleage?Why do I want to go to college? No one asked me such a question.But many times I have asked myself.I have come up with a whole variety of reasons. The most important reason is that Iwant to be a better man.Many things make human beings different is education. If i fail to receive higher education, my education will not finish.As I want to be a fully developed , I must get a well-rounded education, which good colleges and universities are supposed toprovide.I know one can get educated in many ways, but collegesand universities are among the best places to teach me how to educate myself. Only when I am well-educated, will I be a betterhuman being and be fit into society.四，Children should not have to do heavy workIt is not a good idea for children to have to work hard. Children should study in school as hard as they can. They should not have to do heavy work with their bodies.When parents or others force children to work hard, the results are never good and may be very bad.A farmer`s son who has to work hard like a man may early learnto hate farming. Children sometimes do too much work in gardens, in shops or even in their own own homes.They soon begin to hate such kind of work with force that candestroy their happiness.But there may be a worse loss: a child`s love for his parents. The feeling may become something different. When that happens, theold kind of love never returns.、、、五、many value (价值观) differences between the Chineseand Americans.Audrey is a Chinese-American student. She has found many value (价值观) differences between the Chinese and Americans.About money1,The American children love to make money by themselves.Chinese children always ask their parents for money.2, American parents don't think it is useful to send their children to an expensive university. Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to good universities even if itcould make them very poor.About school1, Many American girls take part in sports, dancing and singing groups. Many Chinese girls take part in academic (学术的) groups.2, American students usually feel happy when they get B in an exam. Chinese students feel sad when they get B.American parents and Chinese parentsAmerican parents allow their daughters or sons to go out with their friends if they come back home at the certain time. Chinese parents usually don't allow their children in middle school to goout with their friends at night.American teachers and Chinese teachersDuring parent-teacher meetings, American teachers will always find good things to say to The parents, even to those with theworst grades. But Chinese teachers often tell the parents the mistakes that their children made at school.、、六、 I was in such a hurry to go away that I forgot to ask herfor the fareThe English are often described as unfriendly people who don`t talk to strangers, but not London taxi drivers. I once asked a cabby to describe his life to meand he didn`t stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later! He told me interesting storiesstop this is one of them.Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party.She had her little dog with her.When we got to her house she found that she`d lost key.So I waited in the cab with the dog while she climb inthrough the window.I waited... and waited...After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on。