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The Worst Part
Mom is usually home on Sunday but this week she was going to a big golf game and I was all alone in
the house. I was mad at Mom for divorcing Dad.
I kept looking at the telephone until I couldn't stand it any longer. I picked up the receiver and dialed Dad's
number over in Bakersfield. I even remembered to dial 1 first because it was long distance."You promised to
phone me this week but you didn't," I said, feeling I had to talk to him.
"Take it easy, kid," he said. "I just didn't get around to it. I was going to call this evening. The week isn't
over yet."
I thought about that.
"Something on your mind?" he asked.
"I hoped you would call, so I waited and waited." Then I was sorry I said it.
"There was heavy snow in the morning," he said, "I had to chain up on highway 80 and lost time."
I know putting chains on eight big wheels in the snow is no fun. I felt a little better, as long as we were
talking. "How is Bandit?" I asked.
There was a funny silence. For a minute I thought the line was dead. Then I knew something must have
happened to my dog.
"Well, kid", he began. "My name is Leigh!" I almost yelled. "I'm not just some kid you met on the street!"
"Keep your shirt on, Leigh," he said. "When I had to stop along with some other truckers to put on chains,
I left Bandit out of the cab, I thought he would get back … I have sent out a call to CB radio, but I didn't get
an answer yet." I was about to say I understood when there came the bad part, the really bad part. I heard a
boy's voice say, "Hey, Bill, Mom wants to know when we're going out to get the pizza?"
1. From the story we know that ______. [ ]
A. Leigh's dad never had a rest on Sundays
B. Leigh was a deserted boy
C. Leigh's dad lived in another city
D. Leigh's mother often went to golf games
2. What happened to Bandit? [ ]
A. It was frozen to death.
B. It was let out of the cab and got lost
C. It was killed by a truck.
D. It ran off Highway 80 and into the mountain.
3. The underlined sentence "Keep your shirt on" probably means "______". [ ]
A. Listen to reason
B. Stop talking
C. Calm down
D. Keep warm
4. The worst part in Leigh's eyes may be that ______.[ ]
A. his dad got remarried
B. his parents got divorced
C. his dad didn't love him
D. his mom didn't take him to pizza
