PUZZLE READING
(a) Cook, Miller, Smith, and Carter were good friends. All of them were engaged in different jobs.
One day, Cook’s son got his leg broken and Cook had to send him to a doctor.  The doctor’s sister was Smith’s wife.  The farmer wasn’t married.  He had a lot of good hens.  Miller usually bought eggs from him.  The policeman often met Smith because they were neighbors.
(  )1. Carter was a  .
A. blacksmith  B. policeman  C. farmer  D. doctor
(  )2. Miller was a  .
A. policeman   B. blacksmith  C. farmer  D. doctor
(  )3. Cook was a  .
A. policeman   B. blacksmith  C. farmer   D. doctor
(  )4. Smith was a  .
A. policeman   B. blacksmith  C. farmer   D. doctor
(  )5. The blacksmith and the  were relatives.
A. policeman   B. blacksmith  C. farmer   D. doctor
(b) A businessman ordered ten goldsmiths to make ten coins each.  Each coin was to weigh exactly ten grams of pure gold. 
One of the goldsmiths was a bad man.  He decided to cheat.  He made all his gold coins one grams shot.  Now the businessman heard that one of them had cheated.  He also heard that this man had made each of his gold coins one gram short. 
The businessman was a clever man.  He took a certain number of coins from each of the smiths, weighed them together once only and found their weight to be 540grams.  This was enough for him to find out which one of the goldsmiths had cheated.
1. The word “goldsmith” means  .
A. a person named Smith who sells articles made of gold.
B. a thief who steals gold.
C. a worker who makes articles of gold.
D. a person who worked for the man named Smith.
2. The coins made by the cheat were
those made by any other nine goldsmiths.
A. not so long as   B. heavier than
C. Less high than   D. not so heavy than
3. The businessman found the cheat by  .
A. looking each man in the eye.
B. weighing one coin after another.
C. weighing coins.
D. asking who hadn’t made coins according to his request.
   4. In order to find the cheat, the businessman weighed      coins together.
   A. 50    B. 54     C.  55     D. 60
   5. Suppose the businessman took one coin from the first smith, two from the second, and ten from the tenth, he found out that the       goldsmith was the cheat.
   A. first    B. sixth    C. ninth  D. tenth

ANSWERS: (a) 1C 2D 3A 4B 5D
            (b) 1C 2D 3C 4D 5D