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Unit 1 One World

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Conversation

Birthday Celebrations Around the World

Exercise 1

Listen to the conversation and write down answers to the questions you hear.

Chairman: Welcome to this special birthday edition of One World.Tonight we have a special program dedicated to birthday celebrations around the world.With us in the studio we have Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane,who have a weekly column on birthdays in the Toronto Daily Star.

Shaheen: Good evening.

Pat: Good evening.

Chairman: Shaheen, perhaps we could begin with you.How are birthdays celebrated in India?

Shaheen: Well, perhaps we're all assuming that everyone in the world celebrates their birthday.This just isn't the case. Low-income families in India, for instance,simply can't afford any festivities.And most Muslims don't celebrate their birthdays.

Pat: I think Shaheen has raised an interesting point here.The Christian church, too, was actively against celebrating birthdays.

Shaheen: Of course some Muslims do celebrate their birthdays.In Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia,for example, the rich people invite friends and families around.But not in small villages.

Chairman: Here in England your twenty-first used to be the big one.But now it seems to have moved to eighteen.Is that true?

Pat: Yes, in most parts of the West eighteen is now the most important birthday.In Finland, for example, eighteen is the age when you can vote,you know, or buy wines, drive a car and so on.But in Japan I think you have to wait till you're twenty before you can smoke or drink.

Shaheen: I know in Senegal, which is another Muslim country,girls get to vote at sixteen and boys at eighteen.And in Bangladesh, girls at eighteen and boys at twenty-one.

Chairman: That's interesting.I mean is it typical that around the world girls are considered to be more mature than boys? Shaheen: Yes, I think so, and in Mexico and Argentina,for example, they have enormous parties for fifteen-year-old girls.

Pat: You know in Norway they have a great party for anyone who's not married by the time they're thirty.It's kind of embarrassing.I mean you get pepper thrown at you.

Chairman: Pepper? Why pepper?

Pat: I'm not really sure.

Shaheen: So does that mean that on your twenty-ninth birthday you can start thinking "God I better get married"? Pat: Well, I'm not sure how seriously they take it.

Chairman: In England we have quite big parties for your fortieth, fiftieth,sixtieth and so on.

Pat: Well, in Japan your eighty-eighth is considered ...Chairman: Eighty-eighth?

Pat: ... to be the luckiest birthday.Eight is a very lucky number in Japan.

Questions

1. What is One World?

2. What is the topic of the program?

3. What do Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane do?

4. Why don't some people in India celebrate their birthdays?

5. Why is the eighteenth birthday so important in Finland?

6. Why can girls in some countries get to vote at an earlier age than boys?

7. Which of the countries mentioned in the conversation are Muslim countries?

Exercise 2

Listen to the conversation again and decide if each of the statements you hear is true (T) or false (F).

Statements

1. The program is broadcast in Canada every day.

2. People everywhere in the world celebrate their birthdays.

3. Many Muslims do not celebrate their birthdays for religious reasons.

4. In England, the twenty-first birthday is very important,which is unusual in the West.

5. The twenty-first birthday is very important in Japan.

6. In Norway, young men and women usually get married before thirty to avoid having pepper thrown at them.

7. Eighteen is a very lucky number in Japan.

8. It can be concluded that our world is made more colorful by the many different ways birthdays are observed in different countries.

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.

First Reading

One World One Minute is a unique film project that invites participants in every country around the globe to record simultaneously one minute of their lives,one minute of our world.Sponsors of this project have chosen 12:48 GMT, September 11th, 2002 as the one minute to record.At that moment exactly a year earlier began the terrorist attacks that led to the deaths of more than 2,000 people from over 60 countries.For many this will be a time of remembrance and reflection.And for others this will be an appropriate time for international communication,cooperation and sharing.This is the idea behind the project One World One Minute.Participants are free to choose what and how to record their One Minute.Some may want to take photographs, some paint or draw pictures,while others may want to write something and record their readings.The material can be submitted to the project organizers in Scotland via e-mail or post within 6 weeks of September 11th.All the material will then be made into a feature-length film,which will capture that One Minute of our existence.The film will explore the rich diversity that is both humanity and our world.It will allow a voice to all people regardless of nationality, religion,race, political viewpoint, gender or age.The rich diversity that is Humanity shall be there for all to see.Participants will not only be kept informed of the progress of the film and the release process but will be invited to actively participate through newsletters and discussion forums.When the film is finished, it will be shown in every country of the world,both in cinemas and on TV.Contributors will be invited to attend the first public performance of the film in their respective countries and will receive a full screen credit on the finished production.

Second Reading

Final Reading

Unit 2 Anti-smoking

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Passage

Last Gasp for Smokers

Exercise 1

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

It was a normal day and in their New York office,Ken and his colleagues stopped for their coffee break.But while his colleagues were able to sit at their desks and drink their coffee,Ken had to go outside.He couldn't stay inside, because he wanted to smoke.If the smokers of the Big Apple want to enjoy a cigarette,the authorities have decided they must go out into the street or up onto the rooftops.Throughout the United States,the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually dwindled.First it was banned on trains, buses, and planes,then in public places such as theaters and airports.Now you can't smoke in any workplace.Nonsmokers are definitely winning the battle."Why should we breathe their smoke?" they say.If they're lucky, smokers can still find some bars and restaurants or parks and recreation centers where they can light up a cigarette,but it may soon be banned there, too.In fact, smoking in parks and recreation centers is already banned in California.On August 9, 2001, Los Angeles City and County officials announced the implementation of a smoke-free park policy,officially designating smoke-free zones in all 375 parks and recreation centers in the city.And since January 1, 2002all parks in California have become smoke-free to safeguard children from the harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and dangerous tobacco waste.Anti-smoking groups even think that smoking ought to be banned in people's homes.Under new plans you won't be able to smoke in any house where there are more than ten visitors in a week,or where there are children.In 1996, nicotine was classed as a drug, like cannabis, cocaine or heroin.And scientists all over the world agree that exposure to secondhand smoke poses a serious health risk and there is no safe level of exposure.It is especially dangerous for children because when they are exposed to tobacco smoke,they have much higher rates of lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia and are also at greater risks of developing asthma.In the country that gave tobacco to the world,smoking might one day be illegal.And then Ken will have to give up.

Questions

1. What is the main idea of the passage you've heard?

2. What does the speaker think about banning smoking in public places?

3. Where is smoking not banned according to the passage?

4. Which of the following is true about nicotine?

5. What can be inferred from the sentence"In the country that gave tobacco to the world,smoking might one day be illegal"?

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

W: Hey, Eric, have you read that letter in the paper about smoking this morning?Don't you think the person who wrote that has gone too far?

M: I don't think so, Rose.To my mind the government should do everything it can to discourage people from smoking, especially the youngsters.

W: Maybe so. But it seems a law banning cigarettes would do no good.

M: No. You can't suddenly make smoking illegal.But the government could prohibit smoking in public places,like cinemas and theatres.

W: I quite agree that smoking should be banned in public places.I don't smoke myself and cigarette smoking bothers me. But I don't know if it will work.You know, if you ban smoking in all public places,many smokers will want to do it. People always want to do things that they are not allowed to do.

M: Yes, that's true.

W: But I think people should be allowed to smoke in the street.Don't you think so?

M: Not at all.Frankly I think smoking should be banned altogether in public and private places.In the first place it's a dirty habit.In the second place it's dangerous to your health.

Questions

1. What does the letter in the paper suggest that the government do?

2. What do the two speakers have in common?

3. What do you know about the woman?

4. Which of the following is true of the man?

Unit 3 Memory

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Passage

How Our Memory Works

Exercise 1

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

Human beings have amazing memories.Apart from all our personal memories about our own lives,we can recall between 20,000 and 100,000 words in our own language as well as possibly thousands more in a foreign language.We have all sorts of information about different subjects such as history, science, and geography,and we have complex skills such as driving a car or playing a musical instrument.All these things and countless others depend on our memory.How well you remember things depends on many different factors.Firstly, some people naturally have better memories than others,in just the same way as some people are taller than others,or have different color eyes.Some top chess players, for example,can remember every move of every game that they have ever seen or played.Secondly,research shows that different things are stored in different parts of the brain.Ideas, words,and numbers are stored in the left-hand side,while the right-hand side remembers images, sounds, and smells.In most people one side of the brain is more developed than the other,and this may explain why some people can remember people's faces easily,but can't remember their names. Thirdly, we all remember exciting, frightening,or dramatic events more easily.This is because these experiences produce chemicals such as adrenaline,which boost your memory.Fourthly, the context in which you learn something can affect how well you remember it.Tests on divers, for example,showed that when they learned things underwater, they could also remember those things best when they were https://www.sodocs.net/doc/441470775.html,stly, the more often you recall a memory, the more likely you are to remember it.If you don't use it, you'll lose it.A telephone number that you dial frequently will stay in your memory easily,but you will probably have to write down one that you use only now and again. Questions

1. What does the passage mainly tell us?

2. What can be inferred from the passage?

3. Which of the following is stated to be true?

4. Why can we remember exciting, dramatic, or frightening events better?

Exercise 2

Listen to the passage again and fill in the following blanks with the missing information.

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

To many people advancing age means losing your hair and your memory.But is it true that the older you get, the less you remember?Actually, in healthy people,memory doesn't deteriorate as quickly as many of us think.As we age, our memory mechanism isn't broken,it's just different.The brain's processing time slows down over the years.Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency and that there's less activity in the part of the brain that decides whether to store information or not.There are steps you can take to improve your memory,though you have to work to keep your brain in shape.Some memory enhancement experts suggest we pay attention to what we want to remember.Then give some meaning to it.We remember things when we focus on them, whether we intend to or not.Basic organization helps us remember the boring stuff.For example, rather than trying to recall a random list of groceries,we can divide them into categories, such as dairy, meat, and produce.For important things like keys and money,we can set up a "forget-me-not" spot where we always keep them.We can also eat to aid our memory power.Whole grains, fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of glucose,the brain's preferred fuel.To get adequate rest is a low-tech way to improve memory.Sleep may allow our brain time to encode memories.Interest in friends, family and hobbies does wonders for our memory.A sense of passion or purpose helps us remember.Memory requires us to pay attention to our lives, allowing us to discover in them everything worth remembering.

Questions

1. Which of the following can we learn from the passage?

2. Which of the following can help improve our memory according to the passage?

3. What should we do to aid our memory power according to the passage?

Unit 4 Dealing with Cultural Differences

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Conversation

Embarrassing Experiences

Exercise 1

Listen to the interview and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

Interviewer: Rob, you went to Brazil, didn't you?

Rob: Yes, I did.

Interviewer: So, what happened?

Rob: Well, I went into this meeting and there were about, er ...seven or eight people in there and I just said "Hello" to everybody and sat down.Apparently, what I should have done is to go round the room shaking hands with everyone individually.Well, you know,it's silly of me because I found out later it upset everyone.I think they felt I was taking them for granted.

Kate: Well, I know that because when I was in France the first time,I finished a meeting with "Goodbye, everyone!" to all the people in the room.Well, I later found out that the polite thing to do is shake hands with everyone in the group before leaving.

Interviewer: Well, people shake hands in different ways, don't they?

Rob: Oh, yes, they do.See, normally I shake hands quite gently when I meet someone.So when I went to the US for the first time,I think people there thought my weak handshake was a sign of weakness.Apparently, people there tend to shake hands quite firmly.

Kate: Oh, gosh, that reminds me of my first trip to Germany many years ago.I was in troduced to the boss in the company when he passed us in the corridor.Well, I wasn't prepared, and I had my left hand in my pocket.And when we

shook hands I realized my left hand was still in my pocket.Well, that was, you know, very bad manners and I was quite embarrassed.

Interviewer: And how about using first names?Have you made any mistakes there?

Rob: Oh, yes, I have!When I first went to Italy I thought it was OK to use everyone's first name so as to seem friendly. And I later discovered that in business you shouldn't use someone's first name unless you are invited to.Oh, and you should always use their titles as well.

Kate: Hm, yeah, well, when I met people in Russia, you know,they seemed to be puzzled when I shook hands with them and said "How do you do?"Well, what they do when they greet a stranger is say their own names,so I had that all wrong!

Rob: Oh, yes, I agree with that. Remembering names is very important.

Interviewer: Shall we take a break?When we come back we'll move on to our next topic.

Kate & Rob: OK.

Questions

1. What is the conversation mainly about?

2. Who might be the people Rob and Kate met in various countries?

3. What can we infer about Kate and Rob from the conversation?

4. Which countries has Kate visited, according to the conversation?

5. Which countries has Rob visited, according to the conversation?

6. What is the main message that the speakers want to tell us?

Exercise 2

Listen to the interview again and fill in the table below.

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

In many countries,it is not customary to call someone very early in the morning.If you call early in the day,while he is shaving or having breakfast,the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls after 11:00 p.m.If someone receives a call during sleeping hours,he assumes it is a matter of life and death.The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.In social life, time plays a very important part.In the U.S. guests tend to feel they are highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended three or four days before the party date.But it is not true in other countries.In some countries it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans that are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten.The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world.Thus, misunderstanding arises between people from different countries that treat time differently.Imagine you have arranged a meeting at 4 o'clock. What time should you expect your foreign business colleagues to arrive?If they're German, they'll be bang on time.If they're American they'll probably be 15 minutes early.If they're British,they'll be 15 minutes late,and you should allow up to an hour for the Italians.

Questions

1. What have you learned about the time for telephone calls in many countries?

2. Why is it considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance in some countries?

3. Which nationalities are most punctual and which are least punctual?

Unit 5 Friendship

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Passage

The Hospital Window

Exercise 1

Listen to the story and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

Jack and Ben, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.Jack, whose bed was next to the room's only window, was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.But Ben had to spend all day and night lying flat on his bed.To kill time the two men began to talk.They talked for hours about their wives, families, their homes, their jobs,their involvement in the military service,and where they had been on vacation.As days went by, a deep friendship began to develop between them.Every afternoon when Jack could sit up,he would pass the time by describing to Ben all the things he could see outside the window.And Ben began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.Young lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every color of the rainbow.Grand old trees beautified the landscape,and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.As Jack described all this in great detail, Ben would close his eyes and imagine the wonderful scenes.One warm afternoon Jack described a parade passing by. Although Ben couldn't hear the band,he could see it in his mind's eye as Jack described it with colorful words.Days and weeks passed.One morning the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of Jack, who had died peacefully in his sleep.She was very sad and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.Ben was heartbroken.Life without Jack was even more unbearable.How he longed to hear Jack's voice and his fine descriptions of the outside world!As he looked at the window, an idea suddenly occurred to him.Perhaps he could see for himself what it was like outside.As soon as it seemed appropriate,Ben asked if he could be moved next to the window.The nurse was happy to make the switch,and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.Slowly, painfully,he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside.Finally he would have the joy of seeing it for himself!He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.It faced a blank wall!"What could have compelled my roommate to describe such wonderful things outside this window?"Ben asked the nurse when she returned."Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you to live on," she said."You know, he was blind and could not even see the wall."

Questions

1. What does the story mainly tell us?

2. Which of the following adjectives can best describe Jack?

3. What did Jack describe to Ben according to the story?

Exercise 2

Listen to the story again and write T (true) or F (false) for each of the statements you hear.

Statements

1. Both Jack and Ben were suffering from serious lung trouble.

2. Both Jack and Ben had served in the army.

3. Ben could only lie on his back day and night whereas Jack could sit up and walk about for a brief period every day.

4. There was a park outside the hospital room where Ben and Jack stayed.

5. Jack's descriptions of the outside world helped Ben to recover from illness.

6. It can be inferred from the story that Jack lost his eyesight during his army days.

7. It can be learned that Jack died peacefully in his sleep.

8. Ben asked to be moved to Jack's bed immediately after Jack's death because he was eager to see for himself what was happening outside.

9. Jack was a man full of imagination.

10. It can be inferred from the story that a life cut off from the outside world is painful.

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to five short conversations between two speakers and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

1. M: How do you like your roommate, Debby?

W: Ever since we met on the first day of college, we've been inseparable.

Q: What do you know about Debby and her roommate?

2. M: Have you heard from Linda lately?You two were so intimate in college.

W: Well, honestly, I haven't heard from her as much as I used to since she moved to the east coast two months ago.But I'm sure the friendship between us is as strong as it was before.

Q: What can you infer from the woman's response?

3. W: Do you keep in touch with your old friends back home now that you don't see them regularly?

M: Frankly, after I moved to this city,I'm out of touch with most of them except a few close ones.

Q: What does the man mean?

4. W: It's polite to call a friend before we visit, isn't it?

M: You're right. People usually don't like surprise visits.But close friends often drop in on each other.

Q: What does the man mean?

5. M: Cathy, it seems that you and Sally do almost everything together.

W: That's true. You see, we were born on the same day.

We both majored in fashion designing.And we even have the same love for using bright-colored material in our designs. Isn't it amazing?

Q: What can we learn from the conversation?

Unit 6 Success

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Passage

College Hunks of Junk

Exercise 1

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

It's the universal cry of parents,generally heard by the second day of college summer breaks: "Get a job!"Omar Soliman's mother joined the chorus."You have to do something," she told him.Soliman's friends had obtained prestigious internships in his hometown of Washington, D.C.But he couldn't imagine himself sitting at a desk all day. After years of delivering furniture for his mother's store,he remembered that a lot of people had stuff they wanted to get rid of.If he borrowed his mom's van,he could make a little money hauling their trash away for them.That night, Soliman came up with a name for his new business:College Hunks Hauling Junk.He distributed flyers the next day,and within hours, his phone was ringing.He asked his friend Nick Friedman to help out.They made $220 in three hours cleaning out a woman's garage.Soliman and Friedman pocketed $10,000 that summer.But the two weren't ready to become full-time trashmen after graduation."We were trained to finish college and get a good job," says Soliman.He graduated with a business degree from the University of Miami and first went into marketing at a research firm. Friedman, who had an economics degree from Pomona College in California,became an economic analyst for a consulting company.Months later, they quit their jobs and started their junk business full time.At first they had trouble

finding a bank willing to lend them money as they didn't have much of a credit rating.After five turndowns, one bank decided to gamble $50,000 on their idea.They put together another $60,000 from their parents and their own savings. They bought a truck, hired a graphic artist to design a logo,ran newspaper and radio ads and recruited haulers on campuses.Wearing bright orange hats and green polos and khakis these college "hunks" will haul away everything from construction materials to old couches.To cut down the cost of unloading at landfills,they have learned to recycle metals and electronics and donate to charities over 60 percent of what they collect.They also give away a portion of their earnings from each job to local college scholarship programs.And now, just four years later,they run a nationwide company that pulled in $3 million in 2008.They employ 130 people and have 16 franchises in 10 states and D.C.and plan to expand to 80 franchises by 2012.

Questions

1. What do we learn about Omar Soliman's mother from the passage?

2. What job did Soliman decide to do for the summer break?

3. How much money did Soliman and Friedman make from their summer job?

4. Why didn't Soliman and Friedman start their junk business full time immediately after graduation?

5. What do we learn about the college haulers at College Hunks Hauling Junk?

6. What can be inferred about the company College Hunks Hauling Junk?

Exercise 2

Listen to the passage again and complete the table below.

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

Two years ago, I had a well-paid job in London.

Life was comfortable.But it wasn't the life that I had dreamed of.At 29 years old, I felt that life was passing me by. Then, while I was lying in a hospital bed after a serious illness,I decided to travel around the world.I gave up my job and set off to follow my dream.The journey took me through Europe and Africa,where in a remote corner of Tanzania I met Eric Stone,an American who taught in a school there.Eric was like no other man that I had ever met.And soon I fell madly in love with him.After two weeks together,I continued my journey to India but then I decided to go back to Africa.As the plane approached the airport, I felt nervous.I doubted whether Eric had changed his feelings.

When I walked out into the arrival hall I looked around,but Eric was not there.I started to panic.After a few minutes I saw Eric walking towards me.We kissed and hugged and it was as if I had never been away.Eric had six months of his contract in Tanzania left.Although we were living in one of the poorest countries in the world,they were the happiest six months of my life.At the end of the six months Eric had to return to America and we flew to Texas where I met Eric's family.One morning, at the top of a hill near his home,Eric asked me to marry him.Now we live in London.That's the place where I was born,but I don't regret anything.The trip was the best thing I have ever done.If I hadn't taken the chance I wouldn't have met so many wonderful people,or seen so many fascinating places.Most of all, I wouldn't have met the man of my dreams.

Questions

1. What do you know about the speaker?

2. Where did Eric ask the speaker to marry him?

3. Which of the following is true of Eric?

4. What can we learn from the passage?

Unit 7 Wealth

Part B

Listening Tasks

A Passage

The Embarrassment of Riches

Exercise 1

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

The meaning of wealth today is usually defined as the amount of money and material goods that one has accumulated and the ability to purchase more goods at an ever-increasing rate.A wealthy person possesses so much money that it would be difficult for him to spend it all in his lifetime without being wasteful and extravagant.Speaking from a strictly practical point of view,the trouble with wealth is not that it arouses envy in the hearts of others but that it weighs very heavily upon the resources of its owner.Those who have never tasted luxury imagine that a new Porsche,a Picasso in the drawing room,an apartment in the Trump Tower will bring them ease and happiness.If that were true, owners of the Porsches, Picassos,and Trumps of the world would all be happy souls.One glance at history tells you they are not. The problem is not simply that owning goods feeds upon itself,generating desires to possess more and to outdo other owners in a competitive madness.It's that goods themselves are an endless responsibility.They must be not only paid for but also stored, insured,and publicly admired.All of those cost not just money but personal freedom.As James Boswell, the famous British biographer,once wrote in his diary,"If a man with a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.Nothing except glittering baggage that must be attended to."In some Oriental countries poverty has never been such a disgrace as it is in the "get-rich-quick" zone.Wise men from these lands often remark on the tyranny of goods.According to an old Persian proverb,"The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects."And in his discussion of "Houses",a Lebanese poet and philosopher compares the lust for comfort to a "stealthy thing that enters the house a guest,and then becomes a host, and then a master."The same sentiment is also expressed here in America by the great philosopher Ralph Emerson,who scorns the acquisitiveness of his day with the famous line "Things are in the saddle,and ride mankind."

Questions

1. What does the speaker imply about a wealthy person?

2. Why does the speaker mention a Porsche, a Picasso,and an apartment in the Trump Tower?

3. What does the speaker mean by "owning goods feeds upon itself"?

4. What does owning expensive goods do to the wealthy?

5. Which of the following views would the speaker most probably agree with?

6. What is the main idea of the passage?

Exercise 2

Listen to the passage again and complete the quotations in the left column.

Part C

Test Your Listening

Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.

One day a father took his young son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night on the farm of a very poor family.When they got back from their trip to their fine house, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"

"Very good, Dad!" answered the son.

"Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked.

"Yeah!"

"And what did you learn?" the father asked,

thinking he had fulfilled his purpose.To his astonishment, the son answered,

"I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four.We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden,they have a creek that has no end.We have imported lamps in the garden,they have the stars.Our patio reaches to the front yard,but they have a whole horizon."

When the little boy finished,his father was speechless.Then his son added,

"Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are!"

Isn't it true that whether you are rich or poor depends on the way you look at things?If you have love, friends, family, health,good humor and a positive attitude toward life,you've got everything! You can't buy any of those things.You can have all the material possessions you can imagine,provisions for the future, etc.,

but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing.

Questions

1. What was the father's purpose for the trip?

2. Why do the father and son have such different views on poverty and wealth?

3. According to the story, what kind of people are poor?

4. Which of the following can be inferred from the story?

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