本书搜集了30篇美国故事。这些故事用词精练，语言优美，富有哲理和内涵，不仅反映了美国人民勤劳、勇敢、智慧和幽默，而且能让你体会到他乡也有情，他乡也有爱。这些故事会带给您一片新的天地，使您领悟人生的真谛，得到情感的陶冶。

并帮助读者顺利阅读，每篇故事后附有语言难点注释及文化背景知识，并配有相应的练习题及思考题，书后附部分参考答案。

1 Upset 翻船

2 "Pigs Is Pigs" “忠于职守”

3 Understanding 理解

4 Here It Comes,There It Goes 钟表之“过”

5 A Small Boy's Mother 赤子情怀

6 The Silent Snow of Winter 无声息的冬雪

7 The Double Blanket 双人毛毯

8 The Listener 天涯知音

9 All the Years of Her Life 舐犊情

10 Sabotage at Sunnyview 无端破坏

11 The Debt 心债

12 Double Cross 圈套

13 The Day the World Ended 世界末日

14 A Secret for Two 两者间的秘密

15 The Open Boat 怒海余生

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I decided I would not leave the mountains until I talked with her to learn why she had placed him in a Children's Home. But the human mind finds many things to think about. Every wind seems to blow new and different thoughts into it.