Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading 10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | SECTION 5 Jokes Match the questions 1-6 with the answers a-f in these jokes. 1 What did one maths books say to the other maths book 2 What is white and climbs trees 3 How do you tell when an elephant has been in the fridge 4 Why do birds fly south for the winter 5 What do you call a boomerang that doesn t come back 6 What do you call a scared cow a From the footprints in the butter. b A coward. c I have problems. d Because it s too far to walk. 6 A fridge. I lied about the climbing. f A stick. Match the correct punch lines a-f with the jokes 1-6 . 1 There s a white house a red house and a blue house. The red house is on the left the blue house is on the right. Where s the White House 2 I went to the bank last week and said to the cashier Can you check my balance 3 There are only three kinds of people in the world. 41 1 used to be big-headed but fl Have you read Shakespeare Those who can count and those who can t. UK now I m perfect. fie No who wrote it To blame it on the computer is even more natural. m In Washington DC. t jffi She pushed me over. fl It s natural to make mistakes. Here s one to tell your friends - just for fun A dog walked into the Post Office and asked to send a telegram. The counter clerk gave him the form and the dog wrote Woof - woof -woof - woof - woof - woof. The counter clerk looked at the form and said For the same money you could have one more woof. No said the dog. It wouldn t make sense. Tie punch line of a joke is the line that makes you laugh hopefully . V Noah In the Bible he was a man who set out in the Ark a kind of boat with two of every kind of animal in the world. A flood covered the world with water and everyone died apart from the people and animals on the Ark. boomerang a piece of wood that comes back when you throw it. It is traditionally used by Australian aborigines when they are hunting. Yjiiilirf- . . . . . . . .X- Li. . - . . . . w. -A . . .u. . SECTION 5 Adventure story This is an extract from How the Boy and I .