30.People
think sleepwalking is nothing but one of the fantastic things without any
explanation. Why?
A. It is so common that it needn’t be recorded.
B. Scientists take no interest in it.
C. Doctors don’t want to care about it.
D. No records about it have
been made.
H
Some people are lucky enough
to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a
place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unfortunate
people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after
time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I
never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in
circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask
people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people
do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on
telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to
prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of
directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not
seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the
end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be
going.
If anyone ever asks me the
way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to
avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work
when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I
had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions
to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn
back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with
someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when
my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office
and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.