My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car.From the time I wa s a saver.My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week.I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura.In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural.The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get.I earned some of my money picking one crop or another.When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time.She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked.I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day.Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker.
In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away.She left me 100 share s of AT&T.One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me$240 per year in dividend s(利息).That wa s huge for a kid my age.
By the time I wa s seventeen.I had saved up $ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted.Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up $ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car.I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”.I wa s so excited.
My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got.Thi s wa s not a bad thing.I learned self-reliance.Self-reliance i s equal to freedom.Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father.
(1)
Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of $1, 300?
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A.
Weekly allowance.
B.
Her earning s by picking crop s.
C.
Share s left by grandma.
D.
Money earned from selling share s.
(2)
The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________.
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A.
she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s
B.
enough money had been earned for her car
C.
the work wa s too hard for children like her
D.
she had no time to do that again for some rea son
(3)
We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________.
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A.
16
B.
17
C.
18
D.
19
(4)
The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________.