求一短篇英文文章和中篇英文文章比较急

人在异国他乡,如果不懂得当地的语言,将会有许多的麻烦,甚至会闹出笑话.
One day a Frenchman went to New York. He didn’t know a word of English. When he arrived in New York, he took a bus to a hotel.
It was Sunday, and the Frenchman decided to go out for a walk. As he walked along the street, he suddenly remembered that he didn’t know the name of the street. So he decided to write it down. He looked at the wall near the corner of the street. Then he saw some English words and copied them down in his notebook. “Now I know the name of the street,” he said to himself. “It will be easy for me to get back to the hotel.”
He walked for a long time in the city. Then he felt tired and wanted to go back to his hotel. He took the notebook out of his pocket and showed the words to a young woman. The young woman read the words in his notebook and looked at the Frenchman. She didn’t know what he wanted.
Then the Frenchman stopped an old man and showed him the words. Neither did the old man know what he wanted.
At last the Frenchman saw a young man. He knew some French. When the Frenchman showed him the words in the notebook and asked where the streets was, the young man laughed and laughed, for these were the words in the Frenchman’s notebook: ONE WAY STREET.