AttheentrancetoabigofficeinLondontherewasabookwhichallemployees(雇员)hadtosignwhentheyarrivedeachmorning.Atnineo'clockthemanager'ssecretarywholivedinasmallflatabovetheofficehadtodraware

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　　At the entrance to a big office in London there was a book which all employees (雇员) had to sign when they arrived each morning. At nine o'clock the manager's secretary who lived in a small flat above the office had to draw a red line under the last name in the book and anyone who came after that had to explain why he was late.

　　Whenever there was a thick fog in the city the first person to arrive late usually wrote ‘Delayed (迟到) by fog’under the red line in the book and then everybody else who came after that just put “ditto” underneath .

　　But one foggy morning the first man to arrive late wrote “My wife had a baby early this morning” instead of “Delayed by fog” under the red line in the book. Twenty or thirty people who came after him put “ditto” underneath this as usual.

1．Why did the employees have to sign the book?

2．What was a common reason for being late?

3．What was the first man' s reason on the day this story deals with?

4．What meaning did the rest of the employees really intend when they wrote “ditto” that morning?

5．What did their “ditto” seem to mean?

Which of these sentences are true?

6．The manager knew who were late because they had to come and explain to him.

7．The manager could see who were late by looking at the names under the red line in the book.

8．“Ditto” usually meant “Delayed by fog”.

9．“Ditto” usually meant “I came after that”.

10．The man whose wife had had a baby arrived before anyone else .

11．The man whose wife had had a baby was the last person to arrive.

12．The man whose wife had had a baby arrived before all the others who were late.

13．The people who wrote “ditto” that morning did not read what the first man had written.

14．The people who wrote “ditto” that morning meant that the first man's wife had had a baby.

15．The people who wrote “ditto” that morning really meant “Delayed by fog. ”

Answer 1

答案：解析： 1．So that the manager could see which of them were late. 2．Fog was. 3．His wife had had a baby early that morning. 4．They meant that they had been delayed by fog. 5．That t...