Once a Frenchman    36___ in England. He didn’t know English very well. One day he went to the post office with a postcard. He bought a    37  . Then he gave the stamp and the postcard to the girl    38  the desk. “Oh, no,” the girl said, “ you must stick（贴）the stamp on yourself.” He was very    39  . He couldn’t believe his ears. “Why must I stick the stamp on    40  ?” he asked. “Oh,” said the girl, “I mean that you must stick the stamp on the postcard. And you must do it yourself.”

There was once a farmer. He lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed the farm.
Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This road was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was not deep.
Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was too deep.
The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor(拖拉机) and the driver gave him a lot of money for doing this.
One day, the driver of a car said to him, “You must make a lot of money by pulling cars out of this hole night and day.”
“Oh, no,” the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill(填) the hole with water.”
【小题1】Many cars went into the hole because the drivers ________.

An important question about eating out is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this, “ I’m afraid it’ll have to be somewhere cheap, as I have little money.” The other person may say, “OK, I’ll meet you at McDonald’ s.”
This means that the two agree to go Dutch, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh, no, I want to take you to lunch at Smith’s.” or “ I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They are great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards the person, you can go with him and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may just say, “ Thank you. That would be very nice.”
American custom about who pays for dates is much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay for her own.
【小题1】The passage tells us ________.