John was the only son of a wealthy (富有的) American businessman. Usually he was taken to school by the chauffeur (私人司機(jī)) in his father' s beautiful car, before the chauffeur took John' s father to his office. One evening his father told him that he had to go to the airport early the next day, so he would need the car at the time that John had to go to school. He said that John' s mother, who possessed (擁有) another car, would still be in bed at the time he had to leave the house.

　　“Well, how will I get to school if you need your car and Mummy is still in bed?”John asked. His father thought this was a good opportunity (機(jī)會(huì)) to teach him a lesson about how hard life was for the less fortunate (幸運(yùn)的) people of the world, so he answered, “You'll go in the same way as every other child in the world goes－in a taxi.

1．Why was John able to go to school in a beautiful car driven by a chauffeur?

2．Why couldn' t the chauffeur take John to school one day?

3．Why couldn't his mother do so?

4．What was the lesson that John's father wanted to teach him?

5．Do most children in the world go to school by taxi?

答案：
解析：

1．Because his father was wealthy.

2．Because he had to take John's father to the airport.

3．Because she was still in bed.

4．The lesson was that life was hard for the less fortunate people of the world.

5．No, they do not.


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