(11)A man was traveling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. (12)When he came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a circus which was near there. Tile owner of the elephant said, "I am very sorry! My elephant had a big, round, red chair. (13)He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!" Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and (14)he would pay for all the damage.
When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers would not believe his story. (15)It was only when the man showed them the letter from the circus man that they believed him.
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Fiercely independent, 90 year-old Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn’t consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Louis Critelli, her nephew had to coax the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation’s growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1, 100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills.
Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident’s prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded.
Neither the state nor Loretto told her nephew about the cause of death. Critelli, thinking his aunt had been properly eared for, only learned of the f
A. disbelief.
B. indignation.
C. disapproval.
D. intensity.
I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write, but it was many months before I settled down.
I wasted a lot of time looking for the "typical" village. Yet no such thing exists. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled. Why had I come I had put aside my work as a newspaper reporter because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in the developing countries was more important than anything else. But to understand how three-quarters of the world’s people live, and how their future might affect ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.
In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along a rough road. Then came a rough walk down a path to the river. After this I began the climb into the hills. Every time I stopped to catch my breath, there was a wonderful sight After several hours walk the villag
A. a visit to India
B. an experience of finding a "typical village"
C. a rough road
D. a wonderful sight
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