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There was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and wanted to save all of his money for his own future. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything.
Even, just before he died, he said to his wife; "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife." So he asked his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day, he really died. Then he was stretched out in the casket. The wife was sitting there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!" She had a box in her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket. After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not long after that, her friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."
The wife turned to her friend and replied; "Yes, because I have promised." Then she continued; "I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him." Feeling shocked, her friend said; "You mean that you have put every cent of his money in the casket with him?" Then the wife answered; "Surely I did. I got it all together, put all the money into my account and I just wrote him a check."
(Re-written from http://www.onlyfunnystories.com)
"He was a real miser when it came to his money."" What does 'miser' mean?
A. scrooge
B. mean
C. wealthy
D. generous
The followings are synonyms of 'stretched out' in "He was stretched out in the casket" EXCEPT…
A. deformed
B. unextended
C. lied down
D. unfolded
All of these following statements are true EXCEPT…
A. The man liked the money very much.
B. The man loved money more than just about anything.
C. The man wanted to take the money to the afterlife.
D. The wife put that money in the casket with him.
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?
A. The man loved his wife more than he did with the money.
B. The wife's friend reminded the wife not to be crazy.
C. The wife loved the man because the man was wealthy.
D. The money was put in the casket in the form of a check.
The Zoo Job Story
One day a clown was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a street performance. He acted and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him into his office. The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the zoo's most popular gorilla had died suddenly and the keeper was fear that attendance at the zoo would fall off. So he offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until the zoo could get another one. The clown accepted this great opportunity.
So the next morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd came. He felt that it was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a clown. He pretended the gorilla successfully.
However, eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires. He began to notice that the people were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he decided to make a spectacular performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition, and dangled from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this made the lion furious, but the crowd people loved it.
At the end of the day the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this went on for some time, he kept taunting the lion, the audience crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible day happened. When he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped and fell into the lion cage. The clown was really in big terrible situation. He was terrified. Sooner the lion gathered itself and prepared to pounce. The clown was so scared. He could do nothing and he began to run round and round the cage with the lion close and closer behind. Finally, the lion could catch him. The clown started screaming and yelling, "Help me, help me!", but the lion was quick and pounces. The clown soon found himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and suddenly he heard a voice from the lion's mouth;
"Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?".
(Re-written and simplified from http://www.onlyfunnystories.com)
Why did the clown visit the zoo?
A. to get the offer to replace the gorilla
B. to make a street performance to earn money
C. to see whether there is a chance to make money in the zoo
D. to act and mime animal acts
The clown was happy taking the offer EXCEPT …
a. He drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a clown.
b. He was really in big terrible situation.
c. His salary kept going up
d. He could do anything in the cage
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?
a. The clown was terrified.
b. The lion would like to catch the clown.
c. The lion pounced the clown.
d. The lion was the clown's friend.
What is funny about the story?
a. The zoo keeper gave the offer
b. the lion did not expect the clown's question.
c. The lion is not a lion.
d. the clown did not expect the lion's answer
The clown successfully gathered the crowd because …
a. the other animals were not as clever as him.
b. he made a spectacular performance.
c. he could swing on tires.
d. he was a good gorilla pretender