Question

Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city. Every day, thousands of people passed his door, and a lot of them stopped and asked him, “What’s the time, please？”

After a few months, Dan said to himself, “I’m not going to answer all those stupid people any more. I’m going to buy a big clock and put it on the wall here.” Then he did so.

“Now people aren’t going to stop and ask me the time.” He thought happily.

But after that, a lot of people stopped, looked at the clock and asked Dan, “Is that clock right?”

1.What does Dan do?

A. a policeman B. a doorman C. a worker D. a waiter

2.What question did thousands of people ask Dan a few months ago?

A. Is that clock right?

B. What’s the price of the big clock?

C. How are you?

D. What time is it,please?

3.What does the underlined word “stupid” in the second paragraph mean?

A. 聪明的 B. 空闲的 C. 无耻的 D. 愚蠢的

4.At last, did Dan solve (解决) his problem?

A. Yes, he did B. Maybe

C. No, he didn’t D. Of course

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Hardworking Dan B. A Big Clock

C. Stupid Question D. Boring People

Answer 1