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　　George and his wife had a small bar(酒吧) near a station. The bar often kept open till after midnight, because people want to drink there while they were waiting for trains.

　　At two o'clock one morning, one old man was still at a table in the bar. He was asleep. Betty was tired and sleepy. She wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar several times, and each time the old man was still there. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, “You've woken that man six times now, George, but he isn't drinking anything. Why haven't you sent him away? It's very late.”

　　“Oh, no, I don't want to send him away,” answered her husband with a smile “You see, whenever(无论什么时候) I wake him up, he asks for his bill(账单), and when I bring it to him, he pays it. Then he goes to sleep again.”

1．The old man was sleeping in the bar because ________.

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A．he had nowhere to go

B．he was drunk

C．he liked to stay there

D．he didn't want to go home

2．Betty wanted George to send the old man away because ________.

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A．the old man drank but didn't pay the bill

B．he stayed there too long

C．he wasn't drinking anything

D．it was too late and she wanted to go to bed

3．How many time did George get the pay from the old man?

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4．Why did George let the old man stay? Because ________.

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A．George was a very kind man

B．he didn't want to go to bed

C．there were other people still drinking in the bar

D．he wanted to get more money

5．Which of the following is true?

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A．George was an honest(诚实的) man.

B．The old man paid each time George woke him up because he thought he had drunk something.

C．People came to drink in the bar because they liked George and Betty.

D．George didn't want to sent the old man away because he thought the old man was homeless.

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　　George was an American. He went to England last summer, and he 1 some of his friends there. Two of them were Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. They lived near 2 , and George stayed in their house for a week and 3 it very much.

　　On his last evening with the Andrews, George said to them,“My plane to New York 4 very early tomorrow morning. I'm going to 5 at five o'clock and make my breakfast. Please don't come down.”

　　He said 6 to his good friends that evening and came 7 to the kitchen (厨房) in the morning and looked at the 8 . There was a photograph of Mrs. Andrews on it in front of her chair, and a photograph of Mr. Andrews in front of his chair.

　　George laughed happily and said,“That's 9 . I'm not going to eat my breakfast 10 this morning!”

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　　On his last evening with the Andrews, George said to them, “My plane to New York 4 very early tomorrow morning. I'm going to 5 at five o'clock and make my breakfast. Please don't come down.”

　　George laughed happily and said, “That's 9 . I'm not going to eat my breakfast 10 this morning!”

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George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.　　

He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.　　

On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson.