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Unit One Text A A Payment Greater Than Money Exercise 2 Answer the questions. 1. He got to know people by the flowers he had to remember not to cut down, by the things stuck in the ground on purpose or by the things lost in the grass. He also learned something about his neighbors by their preferred method of payment: by the job, the month — or not at all. 2. Mr. Ballou was a nice old man, but he lived a poor life. 3. Because the bank made a mistake in his account. And his excuse, though seemingly poor and vague, is true to believe. This is because the old man, as we can read from the passage, was really a nice guy and full of love and knowledge, though he might have some difficulty in making a prompt payment to the boy. 4. He used to read what he could get from the paperback rack at the drugstore or what he found at home — magazines, the backs of cereal boxes, comics. 5. Mr. Ballou recommended two books to the author, which were quite different from what the author used to read. 6. Refer to Paragraph 15. 7. Because the books he read struck him with such a great power that they changed the course of his life. 8. The author finally got books for the payment, but such a payment is greater than money, because it changed the course of all that followed. Exercise 3 Decide whether the statements are True (F) or False (F) according to the passage. F 2. F 3.T 4. T 5.T Exercise 4 Fill in the blanks according to the passage. I was___14___ that summer and got to __know______ Mr. Ballou when I _earned_______ money by____mowing_____ lawns for him. Mr. Ballou was a nice old guy. _Having retired_ from his job, he _was living_________ a simple and hard life and was __unable_______ to give me the___payment_____ in time. One late afternoon in mid-July, I _was motioned______ to enter his___cool__ and __shaded_____house. He said that he still couldn?t give me the _payment_____ because the ___bank______ had made a mistake in his __account_______ . T