One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on
the bench（长条椅）with a hat by his feet and a sign that
read,“I am blind. Please help me.”
A creative publicist(广告员)
named Tom was walking by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had
a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat. Without
asking for permission, he took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new
message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.
Later that afternoon the publicist returned to the
blind man and noticed that his hat was almost full of bills and coins. The
blind man recognized（认出，识别出）his footsteps and asked if it was he who
had changed his sign. He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it.
The publicist said,“I just wrote the message a little
differently.”He smiled and went on his way.
The new sign read,“Spring has come, but I can’t see
anything.”
1.What’s the blind man’s name?
A．Tom. B．John.
C．Tony. D．Sorry, I don’t know.
2.Who wrote a new message?
A．The blind
man. B．The teacher.
C．The
publicist. D．The farmer.
3.How did the blind man recognize the publicist?
A．By his sign. B．By his
footsteps.
C．By his voice. D．By his coins.
4.When did the story happen?
A．In spring. B．In summer.
C．In autumn. D．In winter.
5.What can we learn from the passage?
A．Publicists
are always friendly and helpful.
B．We can get
more money by changing a sign.
C．The blind man
was very stupid, so he had little money.
D．The power（力量）of language is great.
