2、When a friend calls out “Wait a second, I have a trick to show you,” don't you always stop and wait? Tricks are hard to resist. No one is ever too old to enjoy them or too young either. In fact, many of the most successful tricks are really quite simple. They don't require special equipments or hours of practice. For example, you tell a friend “Pick a card”, then you surprise him by telling him which card he picked. Here's how it is done. Take a pack of cards and secretly look at the bottom card. Put the cards facedown on a table, and ask your friend to pick a card. Then place the card at the bottom.

Has your friend picked the cards by taking part of the cards from the top and putting it at the bottom? Start turning the cards up one at a time. You can pretend to think hard about each card. Look for the bottom card at the beginning which you have remembered. The cards that come after it will be the one your friend picked. Also, a mind-reading trick is fun to do at a party. You leave the room, and while you are gone, a tea cup is placed upside down over a penny, nickel（$0. 05）, dime（$0. 1）or quarter（$0. 25）. When you come back into the room, you can tell which coin the tea cup is hiding. To do this trick, you only need a helper, or partner. Before hand, you two work out some signals. If he looks up. it's a penny; if he looks right, a nickel. You see, they are all very easy. Why not have a try?

 

56. “ Trick” in the passage means_________.

A. a clever act or plan to fool somebody

B. clever actions done to people by using skill to confuse them

C. a strange habit

D. the cards played or won in a game of cards

57. The most important thing for a successful trick of cards is to_________.

A. put the cards facedown on a table

B. keep your eyes on the card your friend has picked

C. remember the bottom card

D. pretend to think hard while turning the cards up

58. You can know which coin the tea cup is hiding because_________.

A. a helper tells you by doing some actions

B. it's very easy to guess

C. you can take a look at it when no one is looking at

D. your helper can guess the right answer and tells you secretly

59. The author's main purpose to write this passage is_________.

A. to tell the readers tricks are done to fool people

B. to give the readers knowledge about all kinds of tricks

C. to tell the readers how to do some easy tricks to enjoy themselves

D. to say tricks are very popular