David Brenner came from a poor family. When he finished his school, he was given a wonderful
present. "Some of my friends got new clothes and a few rich boys even got new cars. "he remembered,
"My father reached into his trousers pocket and took something out, I held out my hand, and he let my
present drop into it —— a nickel!"
     "Dad said to me, Buy a newspaper with that. Read every word of it. Then turn to the classified section
and get yourself a job. Get into the world. It’s all yours now!" 
     "I always thought that was a great joke my father had played on me until a few years later when I was
in the Army, sitting in a foxhole, and thinking about my family and my life. It was then that I came to know
that my friends had got only new cars, or only new clothes. My father has given me the whole world.
What a great present!"

  1. What did David get as a present when he left school?
    A. New clothes
    B. A new car
    C. Something nice
    D. A nickel.
  2. David's father asked him to read the newspaper to _____. 
    A. find interesting stories
    B. find himself a job
    C. know what happened in the world
    D. learn more things in it
  3. Some years went by and David became a _____.
    A. doctor
    B. teacher  
    C. soldier
    D. driver
  4. In the end David understood the present his father gave him was _____.
    A. great
    B. unimportant  
    C. beautiful
    D. useless