When Boris left school，he
could not find a job．He tried hard and pestered(糾纏)his relatives，but they had
problems of their Own. He answered advertisements until he could not afford to
buy any more stamps. Boris grew annoyed，then
depressed，then a little hardened．Still he went on trying and still he failed．He began to think that he had no future at all.
“Why don’t you start your own business?” one of his
uncles told him．“The world is a money-locker. You’d
better find a way of opening it.”
“But what can I do?”
“Get out and have a look round,” advised his uncle in
a vague sort of way．“See what people want；then give it to them，and
they will pay for it.”
Boris began to cycle around the town and found a
suitable piece of a waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle
repairer．He worked hard，made friends with his customers and gradually managed
to build up his goodwill and profit．A few months
later, he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself．He found a number of empty shops but they were all no
good：in the wrong position，too expensive or with some other snag(障礙). But at long last，he managed to
find an empty shop on a new estate where there were plenty of customers but no
competition.
Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to
repair scooters and motor-cycles．Slowly
but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last，Boris had managed to open the money-locker and found
bank notes and gold Coins inside．
1.Which of the following would be the best title for
the passage ?
A．Goodwill is
the key to success．
B．The world is
a money-locker
C．No education,
no future
D．Difficulty of
starting a small business
2.Which of the following best describes Boris’ job
hunting experience?
A．Surprising B．Encouraging C．Boring D．Disappointing
3.Boris start his career by .
A．cycling
around the town
B．developing a
waste ground
C．repairing
cycles
D．buying empty
shops
4.Boris finally chose an empty shop on a new estate
because .
A．it was not so
expensive
B．he had a lot
of old customers there
C．he could make
good use of his skills there
D．there were
good opportunities there
5.We can infer from the last paragraph that Boris .
A．still couldn’t make good profits
B．set off in a
successful career
C．found a lot
of gold coins by accident
D．had great
difficulty running his business
