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my hand, and he let my present drop into it -- a nickel! ” “ Dad said to me, Buy a newspaper with that. Read every word of it. Then turn to the classified section and get yourself a job. Get into the world. It’s all yours now! ” “ I always thought that was a great joke my father had played on me until a few years later when I was in the Army, sitting in a foxhole, and thinking about my family and my life. It was then that I came to know that my friends had got only new cars, or only new clothes. My father has given me the whole world. What a great present! ” 1. What did David get as a present when he left school? A. New clothes B. A new car C. Something nice D. A nickel. 2. David’s father asked him to read the newspaper to _________ A. find interesting stories B. find himself a job C. know what happened in the world D. learn more things in it 3. Some years went by and David became a ________. A. doctor B. teacher C. soldier D. driver 4. In the end David understood the present his father gave him was ________. A. great B. unimportant C. beautiful D. useless ( C) Two Americans from England were traveling in Spain. One day they came into a little restaurant for lunch. They didn’t know the native (本地的) language and the waiter didn’t know them, either. They wanted the waiter to understand that they asked for some milk and bread. At first they read “ milk” many times, then spelled it. But the waiter could not understand them. At last (最后) one of them took a piece of paper and began to draw a cow. When he was just finishing (完成) it, the waiter looked at it and ran out of the restaurant. “ Do you see, ” said the American, “ how clever I am. ” After some time, the waiter came back. He brought no milk or bread with him. He put down in front of them two tickets for a bullfight(斗