Advanced Anecdotes in American English (2)
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Jack Hawkins was the football coach at an American college, and he was always trying to find good players, but they weren't always smart enough to be accepted by the college.
One day the coach brought an excellent young player to the dean of the college and asked that the student be allowed to enter without an examination. "Well," the dean said after some persuasion, "I'd better ask him a few questions first."
Then he turned to the student and asked him some very easy questions, but the student didn't know any of the answers.
At last the dean said, "Well, what's five times seven?"
The student thought for a long time and then answered, "Thirty-six."
The dean threw up his hands and looked at the coach in despair, but the coach said earnestly, "Oh, please let him in, sir! He was only wrong by two."

Glossary:
coach: المدرب

A- Answer these questions:

1-Why did the football coach want the dean to let the student enter college without an examination?
2- What question did the dean ask the student?
3- What was the student's answer?
4- What did the dean do?
5- What did the coach say to the dean?
6- Who was better at arithmetic, the student or the coach?

B- Which words in the story mean the same as:

1- permitted 4- very good
2- lack of hope 5- very seriously
3- trying to get someone to agree

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Advanced Anecdotes in American English
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Soon afer Dave left college, one of his uncles, who was rich and had no children of his own, died and left Dave a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.

He found a nice office, bought some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming towards the door of his office.

"It's my first customer!" he thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

The man knocked at the door while this was going on, came in and waited politely for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, "I'm from the telephone company, and I was sent here to connect your telephone."

Glossary:

Real estate agency: وكالة عقارية

Customer: زبون

A- Answer these questions:

1-How did Dave get money to set up his real estate agency?

2-What did he do to set it up?

3-What happened after he had been in his office for a few hours?

4-What did he think, and then do about this?

5-What did the man do?

6-And what did he say when Dave finished talking?