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?
[ ]
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 ________．
[ ]
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 ________．
[ ]
A．
16
B．
17
C．
18
D．
19
(4)
The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．
[ ]
A．
give the author freedom
B．
be unwilling to buy the author a car
C．
teach the author to learn self－reliance
D．
give the author a big surpri se
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The persons who can receive the country's highest level university scholarships are students from poor families who have an excellent36．But the University of Science and Technology of Beijing37 even further with its38．This year, they have to be non drinkers, non smokers and frugal(节俭)as well．39who is silly enough to use the scholarship money 40friends to meals could face the hope of having 41taken back．The assessment process(评估过程)was42．If he wanted to get the money, the person was asked to do two things：43a short speech about study, campus life, and family conditions; and take part in the question and answer meetings with the organization in charge．
The organization was clear in its decision process and awarded the scholarships to 147 students．44how the money should be spent, however, 45differ．Some students say that it's natural, even 46,for a winner to invite friends to a celebration, usually a meal．
The scholarship winners themselves did not seem to agree．"I object to 47the money on a big dinner for friends．48winners who are from poor families should make good use of the money and not 49 it," said Si Guangrong, one of the winners, who said she would use it for postgraduate study．
A bit more 50 views came from Li Xiao, of the university's Students' Affairs Office："How they spend the scholarship money is a private matter and they're 51 to spend it 52 different ways．But they'd better use it properly and in an economic way．"
The national scholarship is being 53 to 45,000 students each year．The top 10,000 will receive 6,000 yuan, 54 4,000 yuan．55, students with a national scholarship are not required to pay fees for school．
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