When he got married, Alf was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning he left home dressed in a fine black suit. He then changed into overalls and spent the next eight hours as a dustman. Before returning home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit. Alf had done this over two years and his fellow-dustmen kept his secret. Alf’s wife never discovered that she had married a dustman and she never will, for Alf has just found another job. He will soon work in an office as a junior clerk. He will earn only half as much as he used to, but he feels that his rise in status is well worth the loss of money. From now
on, he will wear a suit all day and others will call him “Mr. Bloggs”, not “Alf
1.What did Alf tell his wife when they got married?
2.How did he dress each morning before he left home?
3.What did he do before going home at night?
4.What was his real career?.
5.Will his wife ever learn the truth ?Why?
6.Give a suitable title to the passage.
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1.He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation.
2.Each morning he left home dressed in a fine black suit.
3.He took a shower and changed back into his suit before going home at night.
4.His real career was a dustman.
5 No, she won't because he has just found another job.
6.'' A dustman''
Helen lived with her sister Mary. Both of them were about seventy five years old, and neither of them had ever married. They had a small, old car, and when they wanted to go somewhere, which they did very rarely, Mary always drove, because her eyes were better. One weekend they drove to a large town to look at some things which they had read about in the newspaper. Neither of-them had been to that town before. They were driving along in a lot of traffic when they turned right into a street which cars were not allowed to go into. There was a policeman there, and he blew his whistle, but Mary did not stop, so he got on to his motor-cycle and followed them. After he had ordered them to stop, he said, 'Didn't you hear me blow my whistle?' 'Yes, we did', admitted Mary politely, 'but Mummy told us never to stop when men whistle at us.'
عاشت هيلين مع شقيقتها ماري وكالهما يبلغ من العمر 75 عاما وهما غير متزوجتان من قبل. وكان لديها سيارة صغيرة
وقديمة وعندما يريدان ان يذهبا الى مكان ما والذي كان نادرا ما يحصل كانت ماري هي التي تسوق دائما الن عيناها
كانت افضل. وفي احد عطل نهاية الاسبوع قادوا سيارتهم الى بلدة كبيرة لمشاهدة بعض االشياء التي قرأوا عنها في
الجريدة. ولم يكن أيا منها قد جاء الى هذه البلدة من قبل. وكانتا تفودان في كثير من الزحام عندما استدارا الى يمين شارع
لم يكن مسموح بدخول السيارات اليه. وكان هناك شرطي وقد نفخ بصفارته ولكن ماري لم تتوقف لذلك صعد دراجته
وتبعهما. وبعد ان امرهما بالتوقف قال " الم تسمعاني انفخ بصفارتي؟" فقالت ماري بتأدب " نعم سمعنا ولكن امي
اخبرتنا ان لانتوقف مطلقا عندما يصفر لنا الرجال."
Now answer (five) of the following questions.
1.Where did Mary and Helen drive one day? Why?
2.Why did Mary drive?
3.What did the policeman do when Mary didn't stop?
4.She did not stop, because she did not hear him blow his whistle.(True / False)
5.Had her mother really meant that she should not stop when a policeman blew his whistle?
6.Give a suitable title to the passage.
1.They drove to a large town to look at some things which they had read about in thenewspaper.
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