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简单的小学英语故事阅读 Four Slit Throats An Italian couple murdered four people in the house next door. They slit the throats of their neighbor, Maria Como, and her mom. Then they slit the throats of Mrs. Comos 2-year-old little boy, Perry, and a woman who just happened to be visiting. Finally, they set the house on fire! This all happened two weeks before Christmas. The couple had complained constantly to the Comos about the noise they caused, but no one else in the neighborhood seemed to think that the Comos were noisy. Maria was a kind and quiet person, said one of her neighbors. She and her husband used to push little Perry around the neighborhood in his stroller. They were friendly to everyone. I cant believe this happened. Police in the northern Italian town could not believe it either. A spokesman said that never in the history of Italy had a married couple worked as a team to slice four neighbors throats and then try to burn their house down! I think if they claim temporary insanity, everyone will believe it! said the spokesman. After firemen found the four bodies, the couple calmly confessed to the police. Shopping Carts Everywhere Look at those damn shopping carts, Joe thought. Two of them were parked on his front lawn. Two more were parked behind his car in the driveway. His neighborhood had gone to hell. He lived half a mile from Foodco, a supermarket chain. Nobody should take a shopping cart half a mile from the supermarket. And no one with any respect for others should leave a shopping cart in a strangers yard. Shoppers should push the cart out to their car, and then leave it there. If they dont own a car, they should buy their own personal cart to transport their groceries home. He called Foodco to tell them that four carts were on his property. They said they would be over as soon as they could. That meant about a week. Throughout his neighborhood, carts werescattered in various places, including the streets themselve