Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather
strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England.
He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was
seventy-five, he gave 12,000$ to the village school to buy land and equipment
for a children's playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people
came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson
said that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The
newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson
had a sense of humor. He liked whisky(威士忌)and drank some each day. "I have
an injection(注射)in
my neck each evening." he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening
glass of whisky. The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his
newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection
in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over
Britain asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
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Johnson became a rich man through _________.
A . making whisky.
B . doing business.
C . cheating.
D . buying and selling land.
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The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson __________.
A . had no children.
B . wanted people to know how rich he was.
C . was very warm-hearted and fond of children.
D . was a strange man.
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Many people wrote to Johnson to find out __________.
A . what kind of whisky he had.
B . how to live alone.
C . how to become wealthy.
D . in which part of the neck to have an injection.
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The newspaperman ____________.
A . should have reported what Johnson had told him.
B . shouldn't have asked Johnson what injection he had.
C . was eager to live a long life.
D . should have found out what Johnson really meant.
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When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening he really meant that ______.
A . he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
B . he needed an injection in the neck.
C . a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.
D . there was something wrong with his neck
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