A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year- old son waiting for him at the door.

“Daddy, may I ask you a question?” “Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man. “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?” “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?” the man said angrily. “I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?” asked the little boy. “If you must know, I make $20 an hour.” “Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he said, “Daddy, may I borrow $10?”

The father was furious, “If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a toy or some other rubbish, then you go straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are so selfish.

The little boy went to his room without any words and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. How can he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often.

The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.

“Are you asleep, son?” He asked. “No daddy, I’m awake,” replied the boy. “I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you just now,” said the man, “Here’s the $10 you asked for.”

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. “Oh, thank you daddy!” He said happily. Then, the boy took out some coins. When the man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.

“Why do you want more money if you already have some?” the father asked angrily

“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,” the little boy replied. “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”

1.How much does the boy’s father make an hour? .

A.$10 B.$20 C.$30 D.$40

2.In this passage, the underlined word “furious” means_______. .

A.very angry B.quite happy C.too excited D.interesting

3.At first, the boy’s father refused to lend the boy any money because_________.

A.the boy always borrowed money from him

B.he did not have enough money at that moment

C.he thought the boy would buy something of no use

D.he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself

4.The boy wanted to buy _________with twenty dollars.

A.a new book for himself B.a nice present for his father

C.a toy for his own birthday D.an hour of his father’s time

5.From the passage, we can infer (推断) that the boy’s father__________.

A.often played with his son B.spent little time with his son

C.didn’t love his son at all D.often came back home early

Online shopping has become something very common for young people. However, it’s not easy for old people. Therefore, buy-for-you shops are becoming popular among the old.

Mr. Li, a 65-year-old man, is crazy about this way of shopping. He says, “I can’t use the Internet. After I happened to find a buy-for-you shop, I decided to try. Finally I got what I wanted. I was so happy.”

The shopkeeper Mu Lan says she started the business of offline buy-for-you in order to help people like Mr. Li. In only about ten days since the start of the business, she has received more than 20 orders from customers. Mu Lan is not the only one who finds the large need of offline buy-for-you business in the market. In her city, over 300 such shops opened their doors only in April.

In order to attract more customers, they have opened their shops in communities. And they charge a suitable service fee. For example, when buying things that cost less than 200 yuan for customers, they usually get 5 yuan as service fee.

What if there is any problem with the ordered thing, let’s say, like a quality problem? The shopkeepers say they will deal with any quality problems if people use their buy-for-you service.

1.What does a buy-for-you shop do?

A.It sells things it produces. B.It sells things to the old people online.

C.It buys things online for you. D.It buys things in shopping malls for you.

2.What’s the meaning of the word ‘charge’ in the fourth paragraph?

A.Ask for some money. B.Spend some money.

C.Lend some money. D.Borrow some money.

3.Who will deal with the quality problem if something is wrong with the ordered thing?

A.Customers. B.Online shops.

C.Buy-for-you shops. D.Community centres.

4.We can know from the article that .

A.Mr. Li is good at online shopping

B.buy-for-you business is in great need

C.buy-for-you shops serve the old for free

D.In Mulan’s city, there’re 300 buy-for-you shops in all

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