Question

a young boy playing with a ball in the street 全文

Answer 1

A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He threw (扔) it too hard and it broke (打破) the
window of a house and fell (掉) inside. A woman came to the window and shouted (大喊) at the boy.
The boy was afraid and ran away. But he still wanted his ball back. A few minutes (分钟) later. The boy
came back and knocked (敲) at the door and said, "My father is going to come and repair (修理) your
window soon."
After a while, a man came to the door with tools (工具) in his hand, so the woman let the boy take his
ball away.
When the man finish repairing the window, he said to the woman, "Please pay ten dollars."
"But aren't you the father of the boy?" the woman asked, looking surprised (惊奇). "No," he
answered, looking more surprised, "Aren't you his mother?"