Twobusinessmenwereaskedtohavedinneratthehomeofaprofesso...

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Two Businessmen were asked to have dinner at the home of a professor. One of them did not have much education and was worried that he might make a fool(傻瓜) of himself, but his friend said,“Don’t you worry. Just do what I do, and don’t talk about anything you don’t really understand, or people will call you a fool.”

At the beginning, the first man was very careful about his words, but at the end of the party he forgot what his friend had told him.

A guest asked whether he liked Shakepeare(莎士比亚),and he answered quickly, “It’s very good, but I like brandy(白兰地) much more.”All the guests in the room were quite surprised at his words, and soon people began to leave.

When the two friends were out of the house, the second man said to his friend,“You certainly made a fool of yourself just now.”

“I don’t quite understand you”, said the other man.“What was wrong with it?”

 “Everybody knows that Shakepeare isn’t a drink,”his friend answered,“It’s a kind of food.”

Fill in the blanks according to the one word for each blank.

   One day a professor asked two businessmen to have one of them had___1___ education than the other, he was quite worried. His friend told him not to talk about anything he didn’t underatand. At first the man was so careful that he did nothing__2____. But when a guest asked him whether he liked Shakepeare, he gave the wrong answer. That was because he thought Shakepeare was a kind of __3____. All of the guests were surprised to hear what he said. When they left the professor’s home, his friend told him Shakepeare was a kind of __4___. From the story we can see that___5___ of the two businessmen knew who Shakepeare really was.

【回答】

    2. wrong    3. drink   4. food   5. neither

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