Mr.Smith liked to be exact.One day when he was walking in the street, a man came over and stopped him.“Excuse me, but where is the nearest bookshop?”“The nearest bookshop?You have to(必须)go across a bridge and then turn right.”
“And is the bridge long?”“Thirty metres.”The man thanked him and walked towards the bridge.Suddenly he heard someone running after him.“Stop!”Mr.Smith was shouting.“I’m sorry.I just, I just remember the bridge is forty metres long.If you go thirty metres and then turn right as(按照)I told you to do, you’ll fall into the river.”
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When Mr.Smith was walking in the street, a man came to ask him ________.
Amy was a little girl.She lived near a fruit shop in the village.The shop was 1 by Mr.Smith.
One day Mr.Smith said to Amy, “Would you like to earn(赚)some money?”
“Oh, yes,” replied she, “for I want some new shoes, and dad has no 2 to buy them with.”
“Well, Amy,” said Mr.Smith, “there are some fine 3 in Mr.Green's garden, and he said that anybody was welcome to them.I will 4 you thirteen cents(美分)a kilogram for all you will pick for me.”
Amy was so 5 that she decided to go to pick the grapes as soon as possible.She ran home to get a 6 at once.
Then she thought she would like to know how much money she would get 7 she picked five kilograms. 8 the help of her pencil, she found out that she would get sixty-five cents.
“But supposing I should pick twelve kilograms,” thought she, “ 9 should I earn then?” “Dear me,” she said, after figuring(计算)a while, “I should earn one dollar and 10 cents.”
Amy then found out what Mr.Smith would pay her for fifty, a hundred, and two hundred kilograms.It took 11 some time to do this, and then it was so near lunch time that she had to 12 at home until afternoon.
As soon as lunch was 13 , she took her basket and 14 to the garden.Some boys had been there before lunch, and all the fine grapes were picked.
As she went home, she 15 what her teacher had often told her-“Do your task at once; then think about it,” for “one doer is worth a hundred dreamers.”