To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed it to be, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) ( though I have since enjoyed many of those, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows.
The author thought that Mr. Ballou was ______________.
A. rich but mean
B. poor but polite
C. honest but forgettable
D. strong but lazy
16. Before his encounter with Mr. Ballou, the author used to read _____________.
A. anything and everything
B. only what was given to him
C. only serious novels
D. nothing in the summer
17. The author found the first book Mr. Ballou gave him _____________.
A. light-heated and enjoyable
B. dull but well written
C. impossible to put down
D. difficult to understand
18. From what he said to the author we can gather that Mr. Ballou _______________.
A. read all books twice
B. did not do much reading
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