he animal, but the preacher
said, " i must warn you-he only responds to 'church talk'. go is
'praise the lord', and stop is 'hallelujah"'.
"i've worked with horses all my life," said the buyer, "and
i've never heard of anything like this." mounting the horse, he
said skeptically, " praise the lord." the horse began to trot. he
repeated "praise the lord" and the horse broke into a gallop.
suddenly the buyer saw a cliff dead ahead. frantic, he yelled
"hallelujah", and they came to a stop a foot from the edge.
wiping the sweat from his brow, the buyer said, "praise the
lord!"
notes:
(1) prospective adj.预期的；可能的
(2) preacher n.传教者
(3) impress v.给予强烈影响；留下深刻印象
(4) respond v.有反应
(5) praise the lord 感谢上帝
(6) hallelujah 哈里路亚（赞美上帝之语）
(7) skeptically adv.怀疑地
(8) trot v.小跑
(9) gallop n.疾驰；飞奔
(10) dead adv.完全地；绝对地
(11) dead ahead 正前方
exercises:
根据短文判断下列句子正（t）、（f）：
1 the preacher decided to sell his horse to buy another.
2 the buyer liked the horse at his first glance.
3 the buyer didn't believe what the preacher had said.
4) suddenly the buyer saw a deep river ahead.
5 the buyer shouldn't have said "praise the lord" when they
came to a stop at the edge of the cliff.
57.欲买马之人
传教士决定卖掉他的马。一位欲买马之人看中了这匹马，但传教士
说：“我必须警告你——他只懂‘教堂语言’。走是‘感谢上帝’，停
是‘哈里路亚’。”
“我一生都在同马打交道，”买马之人说，“这样的事我还是头一
次听到。”他跨上马，将信将疑地说：“感谢上帝。”马开始小跑。他
重复说“感谢上帝”，马开始飞奔起来。突然买马者看到前面是一个悬
崖。他吓坏了，匆忙喊道：“哈里路亚。”他们在离悬崖只有一英尺的
地方停了下来。
买马之人擦了擦额头上的汗珠，说道：“感谢上帝！”
58. bad business
a salesman was chatting with the owner of a motel.' business.
is terrible," said the motel cower. 'really bad."
"but every time i drive by here you have the 'no vacancy' sign
on. " said the salesman.
"that's true," replied the motel owner. "but i used to turn
away 30 to 35 people a night. now, i only turn away ten to 15."
notes:
(1) motel n.汽车旅馆(3) turn away n.谢绝
(2) vacancy n.空缺
exercises:
根据短文判断下列句子正（t）、（f）：
1 a motel is a hotel for motorists.
2 the salesman was arguing with the owner of the motel.
3 when the motel owner said that business was terrible, the
salesman did not believe him.
4 every time the salesman drove by the motel, the motel was
only half full.
5 the motel owner used to turn away ten to 13 people.
58.生意不好
一个商人在和汽车旅馆的主人闲聊。“生意大糟了，”旅馆主人说，
“真的太糟了。
“可是每次我驾车经过这儿，你都挂上了‘客满’的牌子，”商人
就。
“那倒是真的。”旅馆主人答道，“可是过去我一夜就谢绝三十至
三十五人，而如今只能谢绝十至十五人。”
59. the cheater
donald was not very good at math.
he could not understand the teacher's explanations.
even when the teacher explained something a second time, donald
still could not understand it.
"never mind," donald told himself. "i'm quite good at other
subjects. i'll cheat in the math exam, then i won't be in. trouble."
"i'll sit next to the boy who's best at math, he thought, "and
copy down his answers."
the day of the exam came, and donald sat next to brian smith,
who always was at the top of the class in math.
donald carefully copied brian's answers on to his own exam
paper.
at the end of the exam, the teacher col,t4ted the papers and
graded them.
then she said, "well, boys and girls, i've decided to give a
prize to the student who got the highest grade. it's difficult for
me to decide who to give the prize to, however, because two students,
donald and brian, got the same grade.
"let them share it," one of the other students said.
"i've thought about that," the teacher said, "but i've decided
to give the prize to brian."
donald was angry when he heard this.
he stood up and said, "that's not fair. i got the same grade
as brian. "
"that's true," the teacher said. "however, brian's answer to
question 18 was 'i don't know'. yours was 'neither do i'."
notes:
(1) be good at 擅长
(2) cheat v.作弊
(3) be in trouble 有麻烦
(4) grade v.打分；分等
exercises:
1 donald decided to cheat in the math exam because _____.
a. he was always at the top of the class in math
b. he understood the questions
c. he was not very good at math
d. the math teacher did not explain the questions carefully
2 donald got a high grade in math because_____ .
a. math was his best subject
b. the questions were easy
c. he copied from another boy
d. the teacher explained the questions carefully
3 donald got the same grade as brian because _____.
a. both boys were good at math
b. donald cheated
c. brian copied donald's answers
d. the questions were very easy
4 the teacher knew it was donald who cheated because_____ .
a. his answers were the same as brian
b. he wrote "i don't know " as an answer
c. he got the same wrong answers as brian
d. he wrote the words "neither do i"
5 in the end , we can learn that_____ .
a. both brian and donald won the prize
b. neither of brian and donald won the prize
c. brian won the prize
d. donald won the prize
59.作弊者
多纳尔德数学不太好。
他听不懂老师的讲解。
即使解释第二遍，他也听不懂。
“不要紧，”多纳尔德安慰自己，“我别的科目很好。我要在数学
考试中作弊，那么我就不会有麻烦了。”
“我将坐在数学最好的同学旁边，”他想，“并抄下他的答案。”