Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench (長凳). The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir,” said the poor man, “I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “That is not so hard. Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month.”
A few days later, the rich man went by the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “you see, when I am down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I’m up there, in that big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all.”

  1. 1.

    The poor man lived in_____ before he met the rich man.

    1. A.
      the hotel       
    2. B.
      his home     
    3. C.
      the park       
    4. D.
      the car
  2. 2.

    Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and _____

    1. A.
      waited for the rich man       
    2. B.
      looked at the rich man’s hotel
    3. C.
      looked at the rich man’s car    
    4. D.
      enjoyed the clean air
  3. 3.

    The poor man moved out of the hotel because_______

    1. A.
      he didn’t want to live in such a fine room
    2. B.
      he didn’t like the rich man
    3. C.
      he couldn’t pay for the room
    4. D.
      he couldn’t get any sleep at all there
  4. 4.

    In the end, the poor man found it _____to sleep in the hotel.

    1. A.
      sorry        
    2. B.
      nice        
    3. C.
      sad      
    4. D.
      terrible
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