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    A Joke About Mark Twain

    ¡¡¡¡In the course of one of his lecture trips, Mark Twain arrived at a small town. Before dinner he went to a barber's shop to be shaved (¹ÎÁ³).

    ¡¡¡¡¡°Are you a stranger?¡± asked the barber.

    ¡¡¡¡¡°Yes,¡± Mark Twain replied. ¡°This is the first time I've been here.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°You chose a good time to come.¡± the barber continued. ¡°Mark Twain is going to read a lecture tonight. You'll go, I suppose.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°Oh, I guess so.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°Have you bought your ticket?¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°Not yet.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°But everything is sold out. You'll have to stand.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°How very annoying(ÁîÈËÉúÆø)!¡± Mark Twain said with a sigh(̾Ϣ). ¡°I never saw such luck. I always have to stand when that fellow lectures.¡±

    1£®Mark Twain came to the small town ________ .

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    A£®to give a talk
    B£®to have dinner with the barber
    C£®to be shaved
    D£®to listen to a talk

    2£®At first, the barber thought the stranger ________ .

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    A£®had a good chance to attend the lecture

    B£®couldn't go to the lecture because he had no ticket

    C£®had never been to this town before

    D£®was a great writer

    3£®Mark Twain ________ .

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    A£®didn't get shaved that day
    B£®shaved himself before dinner
    C£®always stood while lecturing
    D£®was unlucky that day

    4£®The last paragraph tells us that Mark Twain was ________ .

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    A£®very angry for having to stand while listening to the lecture

    B£®disappointed for not having got a ticket

    C£®annoyed with the fellow who would give the lecture

    D£®just joking

    5£®From the story we can see that ________ .

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    A£®it was Mark Twain who would give the lecture

    B£®everyone knew Mark Twain

    C£®Mark Twain was going to listen to a lecture

    D£®Mark Twain never had good lucks

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    A Second Chance

    ¡¡¡¡Something in Stephen Pearman¡¯s voice moved Robert Fredy one cold day two years ago£®Pearman had come close to Fredy¡¯s ¡¡¡¡1¡¡¡¡ at a crossroad in New York City, hoping to earn some money ¡¡¡¡2¡¡¡¡ washing his windshield(µ²·ç²£Á§)£®Fredy waved to show he wasn¡¯t interested£®

    ¡¡¡¡Pearman leaned into the window£®¡°Come on, mister, give me a chance£®I need a ¡¡¡¡3¡¡¡¡,¡± he said£®

    ¡¡¡¡In the seconds before traffic ¡¡¡¡4¡¡¡¡ moving again, Fredy, then general manager of the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey, handed Pearman a business card and told him to call ¡¡¡¡5¡¡¡¡ he was serious£®

    ¡¡¡¡¡°My friends told me he was just making a joke about me,¡± says Pearman, an out-of-work taxi and truck driver£®¡°But I believed that he was a ¡¡¡¡6¡¡¡¡ businessman£®¡±

    ¡¡¡¡The next day, 29-year-old Pearman appeared again ¡¡¡¡7¡¡¡¡ Fredy£®Fredy gave him a job and three meals a day, and ¡¡¡¡8¡¡¡¡ him money while training him£®

    ¡¡¡¡Today, Pearman works full time setting up the hotel¡¯s meeting rooms£®In the past two years, he¡¯s found an apartment, married and paid back Fredy¡¯s money£®

    ¡¡¡¡¡°There¡¯s no future in washing windshields,¡± says Pearman£®¡°Mr£®Fredy gave me a second chance, and I ¡¡¡¡9¡¡¡¡ the best use of it£®¡±

    ¡¡¡¡Usually Fredy is very ¡¡¡¡10¡¡¡¡ with New York¡¯s street people£®¡°But pearman seemed so honest and open, ¡¡¡¡11¡¡¡¡ for an opportunity rather than just money,¡± Fredy says£®¡°I don¡¯t hand my business card to ¡¡¡¡12¡¡¡¡ anybody£®But I¡¯m glad I handed it to Pearman that day£®¡±

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    ¡¡¡¡John liked to wear his hair very long. Some of his friends thought that it looked like a girl's hair, but they never made jokes about it, because John was a big, tall young man, and didn't think jokes about his hair funny.

    ¡¡¡¡John always went to the barber's twice a month to have his hair cut and washed, and one day the barber said to him, ¡°Now why don't you let me cut most of this off and make your head tidy? Nobody would recognize you if I did that, I'm sure.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡John said nothing for a few seconds, and then he said, ¡°Perhaps you are right, but I am sure that nobody would recognize you either if you did that to my hair.¡±

    1£®John didn't like to ________.

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    B£®keep his hair very short

    C£®have his hair cut and washed often

    D£®wear his hair unusually long

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    B£®He was a funny man.

    C£®He was a serious person who didn't like any jokes.

    D£®He was a rude person when he was angry.

    3£®What did the barber do to John one day?

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    A£®He made a joke about his hair.

    B£®He cut off John's hair.

    C£®He suggested that John should have his hair cut short.

    D£®He tried to make John's hair tidy.

    4£®What was his feeling when John heard the barber's words?

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    B£®He was too angry but kept silence just for a while.

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    5£®Why would nobody recognize the barber if he did as he had said? Because he ________.

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    B£®was not a skillful barber

    C£®would be made to have his hair cut off

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    ¡¡¡¡In Spain there once lived a king and he was very fond of jokes£®¡°I will give a bag full of gold£¬¡±he said£¬¡°to the person who can tell me the best story£®There's only one rule£ºit¡¡must be a story which I cannot believe£®If I can believe it£¬then I won't give away the bag of¡¡gold.¡±

    ¡¡¡¡People came to the king from all parts of the country£®They brought strange and wonderful stories£®The king sat in his palace and listened to all the stories£®He enjoyed them very much£¬but to each person he said£¬¡°I can believe that story£®It could happen and it may betrue£®So I won't give you the bag of gold£®¡±

    ¡¡¡¡At last a poor old man came to the palace£®He was carrying a huge stone jar£®The old man went into the king's room and said£¬¡°Oh£¬king£¬your good father was once a poor man¡¡and my father was rich£®They were very good friends£®My father gave your father a large jar,¡¡like this one£¬and it was full of gold£®Your father promised(ÔÊŵ)to give back the gold¡¡when he became rich£®But he didn¡¯t give it back£®Now I'm poor and you are rich£®And I want¡¡the gold£®¡±

    ¡¡¡¡The king said,¡°I don¡¯t believe that story£®The jar is very big£®There isn't enough gold¡¡in all my country to fill that jar£®My father didn't tell me anything about a large jar full ofgold£®¡±

    ¡¡¡¡¡°All right£¬¡±the old man said£®¡°Never mind£®If you don't believe the story£¬give me the¡¡bag of gold£¬please£®¡±The king remembered the rule and gave the man the bag of the gold£®

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    June and I were both poor when we were young. At that time, June always said, ¡° If I got rich, I would buy a bigger apartment and a new wardrobe(Ò¹ñ).¡± Of course, she said this just for fun and she never imagined that she would really become rich.
    A few years ago, June was surprised and excited when she came into a fortune(²Æ²ú) from her uncle, who had been single. After receiving it, she made a shopping list. On it she wrote down all the ways she could use to spend the money. Every time I told her not to spend all of the money and to save some, she would always say impatiently(²»ÄÍ·³µÄ), ¡° I know, I know!¡±
    One day, when I was in June¡¯s home, she passed a piece of paper to me. ¡°I thought over your suggestion for several nights. I¡¯ve decided how to use the money. I hope my money will be helpful to those who need help,¡± she said.
    I was pleased to hear what she said. Then I took the paper and only saw the two words written by her: Charity and Family. I smiled and played a joke on her, ¡°Don¡¯t you want to move to a new apartment? That is what you have been dreaming of.¡±
    ¡°Actually, I have been looking forward to it, but now it doesn¡¯t seem so important to me anymore,¡± she answered with a smile.
    When I was about to put the paper on the table, I found there were still a few words. June had written: and a new wardrobe.
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    ¡¾Ð¡Ìâ5¡¿Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
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