朱宾忠编著的《长寿的秘诀》精选了适合青少年学生心理、认知特点和知识架构的英文故事多则。《长寿的秘诀》保持原文原汁原味的前提下对影响故事整体理解的难点部分进行而来改写或添加了简明的汉语注释，力求让所有中学生、大学生在“无词典、无词表、无译文”的状态下一口气看完每一个完整的故事。

《长寿的秘诀》的编写方式不仅降低了学生对于汉语的依赖性，而且为阅读的连续性创造了条件。一口气看完本书中的一个个动人的故事也是学生真实体验“欣赏与自我欣赏”的一个新奇历程，即在欣赏优美英语故事的同时，不知不觉开始欣赏自己英语水平的提高。

总之，本书在提高学生阅读兴趣、养成英语阅读习惯、增强英语阅读信心、扩展英语文化知识、培养英语敏捷思维等方面起到积极的推动作用。

01.A Smart Fishing Boy

02.Fish and Cat Story

03.HOw Mankind Earned Longeuity

04.The Cost of Woman

05 God Mode Man

06 Giving Away a Horse

07.Gathering Chickens

08.How Are You Feeling?

09.Dem' Smart City Folk

10.Ten Dollars Is Ten Dollars

11.What is Two Plus Two?

12, Death of Partner

13.Tolented Dog

14.Warm, Soft, &Gooey

15.Grocery Shopping

16.Don't Step on Them

17 Irish Wi fe

18.Smart Irrshman

19.Dying Confession

20.Baked Beans

21.Legless Frog

22.Knowing the Facts

23.The Rabbit and the Snake

24.I Want to Take Money with Me

25.Advice from Lawyers

26.Elk Hunting

27.Robbit Test

28.Getting Out of a Ticket

29.Back Seat Driver

30.I Know You Were Drunle Yesterday

31.An Atheist

32.Lacking All Religion

33.Finally Got to Heauen

34.What Is Easter

35.Blonde Escapee

36.Beor with Me

37.Settling a Cow Case

38.The Bushes and Clintons on a Train

39.Election Tie-Breaker

40.Take the Bait

41.The Nonconformist Bird

42.Chattv Parrot

43.Not Quite Ready

44.You Need to Haue a Bad Day to Get into Heauen

45.A Slap in the Dark

46.Olympic Ice Skating

47.Do You Knoln Me?

48.Lawyers on a Jury

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