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Reading Exercise Phase E
Reading Exercise Phase E
Benjamin Harrison played an unusually active role as President at a time when most
chief executives saw themselves as simply administrators. As a result, American writer
and intellectual Henry Adams said Harrison was the best President since Lincoln.
Benjamin Harrison grew up on a farm, in the Midwestern state of Ohio, as one of eight
children. His grandfather was not the only famous political Harrison. His great-
grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence. And his father was a
congressman.
Young Benjamin Harrison respected these men and believed he had a role to play in
history, too. He received a good education and, even outside of school, he read many
books. His hard work and intelligence carried him to Miami University in Ohio, and
then to a career as a lawyer.
Who was Benjamin Harrison?
Where Benjamin Harrison grew up?
Where did Benjamin Harrison go to collage?
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6. Read the text and ANSWER its questions.
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B. Buy
C. Get
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7. Read the text and ANSWER its questions.
A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds. When the wind
blew, the great Oak stood proudly upright with its hundred arms uplifted to the sky. But
the Reeds bowed low in the wind and sang a sad and mournful song.
“You have reason to complain,” said the Oak. “The slightest breeze that ruffles the
surface of the water makes you bow your heads, while I, the mighty Oak, stand upright
and firm before the howling tempest.”
“Do not worry about us,” replied the Reeds. “The winds do not harm us. We bow
before them and so we do not break. You, in all your pride and strength, have so far
resisted their blows. But the end is coming.”
As the Reeds spoke a great hurricane rusted out of the north. The Oak stood proudly
and fought against the storm, while the yielding Reeds bowed low. The wind redoubled
in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the
pitying Reeds.
Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.
A wolf and a goat grazing at the edge of a high cliff. The wolf smacked his lips at the
thought of a fine goat dinner.
“My dear friend,” said the wolf in his sweetest voice, “aren’t you afraid you will fall
from that cliff? Come down here and gaze on this fine grass beside me on safe, level
ground.”
“No, thank you,” said the goat.
“Well then,” said the wolf, “aren’t you cold up there in the wind? You would be
warmer grazing down here beside me in this sheltered area.”
“No, Thank you,” said the goad.
“But the grass tastes better down here!” said the exasperated wolf, “Why dine alone?”
“My dear wolf,” the goat finally said, “are you quite sure that it is My dinner you are
worrying about and not your own?”
What did the wolf ask when he saw the goat grazing at the edge of a high cliff?
What can we learn from the story above?
Two men were traveling in company along the road when one of them picked up a
well-filled purse.
“How lucky I am!” “I have found a purse. Judging by its weight it must be full of
gold.”
“Do not say ‘I have found a purse,” said his companion. “Say rather ‘we have found a
purse’ and ‘how lucky we are.’ Travelers ought to share alike the fortunes or
misfortunes of the road.”
“No, no,” replied the other angrily. “I found it and I am going to keep it.”
Just then they heard a short of “Stop, thief!” and looking around, saw a mob of people
armed with clubs coming down the road.
The man who had found the purse fell into a panic.
“We are lost if they find the purse on us,” he cried.
“No, no.” replied the other, “You would not say ‘we’ before, so now stick to your ‘I’.
Say ‘I am lost.”
According to the passage, what did they find?
What is the synonym of the word fortunes?
What is the type of the text?