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M3 LA4 Quiz
Read the
following texts and choose one best answer for the questions 1-5.
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)
1. Why did the clown visit
the zoo?:
to act and
mime animal acts
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to get the
offer to replace the gorilla
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to see
whether there is a chance to make money in the zoo
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to make a street performance to earn
money
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2. The clown
was happy taking the offer EXCEPT …
His salary
kept going up
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He was really in big terrible situation.
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He drove
bigger crowds than he ever did as a clown.
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He could
do anything in the cage
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3. What is
funny about the story?
the lion
did not expect the clown's question.
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the clown did not expect the lion's
answer
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The zoo
keeper gave the offer
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The lion
is not a lion.
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4. Which of the following statements is NOT true
according to the text
The lion was the clown's friend.
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The lion
would like to catch the clown. B. The lion pounced the clown.
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The clown
was terrified.
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he was a good gorilla pretender
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he made a
spectacular performance.
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the other
animals were not as clever as him.
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he could
swing on tires.
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Text 2
for questions 6-10.
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)
6. "He was a real miser
when it came to his money."" What does 'miser' mean?:
scrooge
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generous
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wealthy
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mean
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7. All of
these following statements are true EXCEPT…:
The man
loved money more than just about anything. C. The man wanted to take the
money to the afterlife.
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The man
liked the money very much.
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The wife put that money in the casket
with him.
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unfolded
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deformed
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lied down
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unextended
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9. What
moral value can you take from the text?
not to be
mean to anyone
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not to
trust anybody
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not to love money too much
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not to
love yourself
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The wife's
friend reminded the wife not to be crazy.
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The money
was put in the casket in the form of a check.
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The wife loved the man because the man
was wealthy.
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The man
loved his wife more than he did with the money.
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