九、阅读下面两篇短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。（共 10 小题，每小题 2 分；计 20 分）

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My friend’s grandfather came to America from a farm in Thailand. After After arriving in New York, he went into a cafeteria(自助餐厅) in Manhattan

to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a big plate full of food came up to him. She sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said, “Just go along the line and choose what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend later, “Life’s a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long as you want to pay the price. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

 76．My friend’s grandfather came from                     . A．Thailand     B．Manhattan                            C．New York

77．The grandfather went into a cafeteria to                      .

A．wait for someone B．get something to eat C．meet my friend

78．The woman in the cafeteria might be                       .

A．a waitress

B．a friend of grandpa’s C．a customer

79．What should we do to get food in a cafeteria?

A．Wait for the waiter. B．Ask someone for help. C．Get it ourselves.

80．What can we learn from the grandfather’s words about the life in the US?

A．Get up early and you can succeed. B．Act and get what you want on your own.

C．Nobody brings you anything unless you pay the price.