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9 Too High a Price For many years Henry had been a journalist. He had worked on many international newspapers and magazines and travelled all over the world. Henry had witnessed wars and natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and erupting volcanos. He had reported on serious accidents such as major fires and airline crashes. He had seen every kind of terrible crime and strange occurence there was. He had met and written about some of the most unusual people in the world. In fact, there wasnt much that Henry had not seen or done. Now he was retired from journalism. He owned a very expensive restaurant and spent his days talking to his wealthy and important customers. He liked to say that nothing surprised him. One day he was sitting at the bar in his restaurant when a huge gorilla walked in and asked for a table. Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant. The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad. Henry served the gorilla his salad personally, knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened. At last the gorilla finished his salad and asked for the bill. Henry wrote out the bill and handed it to the enormous animal. The gorilla studied it, shook his head sadly, then gave Henry fifty dollars. Thank you, Henry said, and then to make conversation he added, We dont get many gorillas in this restaurant. At fifty dollars for a salad, the gorilla said, Im not surprised. New Words and Expressions erupting / IrAptirj / adj.喷发的 volcano/ vDlkemau In.火山 retired / ntaiad / adj.退休的 gorilla/ ganla / n.大猩猩 pretend / pntend / vt.假装 EXERCISE I 1. Choose the best answer a, b, c or d, to these questions about thi story. 在a.b.c.d.e中选出一个最适合本故事的答案 A. Henry was a journal. currently working as a journalist. formerly a journalist. applying for a job as a journalist. B. He had had the most exciting experie