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David Brenner came from a poor family. When he finished his school, he was given a wonderful
present. "Some of my friends got new clothes and a few rich boys even got new cars. "he remembered,
"My father reached into his trousers pocket and took something out, I held out 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
