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“Perry’s
Pepper Pizza Parlor!” Perry said. “May I help
you?”
“Yes,
I’d like to order a large pepper pepperoni pizza with hot
peppers
and green peppers,” said the lady on the other end of the
phone.
“Is that
all, ma’am?” asked Perry.
“Yes,
but please put the hot peppers on half the pizza and the green peppers
on both halves.”
“Also,
I’d like the pepperoni on the hot pepper part but not on the
green pepper part.”
“But
didn’t you say you wanted the green peppers on both
parts?”
“That’s
right,” the lady replied.
“That’s
not possible!” Perry pronounced.
“Why
can’t I have green peppers on the whole pizza?”
“I mean
the pepperoni part.”
“I
don’t see why pepperoni placement is so difficult,”
the
lady said. “But if that’s too much trouble, just
put the
pepperoni on the whole pizza!” she added impatiently.
Perry sighed.
“That will be twelve dollars and fourteen cents.”
“Can you
deliver my pizza?”
“Sure
can. What’s your address?”
“There’s
no number, but I live on Forestview Road.”
“Can you
help me a little more than that?” Perry asked, trying to be
as pleasant as possible.
“I live
in a white trailer with a pickup truck in the driveway,”
responded the lady.
Perry
wanted to scream, “So does everyone else in this
county!”
but he restrained himself. “Can you give me a little more
help
than that?” he asked calmly.
“Yes,
there is no blue picket fence in front of our home,” said the
lady.
“Are
there blue picket fences in front of all the other homes on your
road?”
“No,
silly, but we used to have one a few years ago. Just look for the home
that doesn’t have one there anymore.”
Perry began to
dream about early retirement. “I’m kind of
confused,” he said in a shaky voice.
“No
offense, sir,”
the lady said, “but you do have a listening comprehension
problem.”
Underline every statement that must be true based on the selection.
1.
Perry’s Pepper Pizza Parlor peddled Pepsi.
2. Perry’s Pepper Pizza Parlor would deliver pizzas to
people’s homes.
3. Everyone in the county lived in a white trailer.
4. Perry worked to hide his impatience with the caller.
5. Perry wasn’t good at understanding what people were saying.
6. The caller said that she lived on Forestview Road.
Reading
Comprehension, Vol. 7, No. 5, March 25, 2002http://rhlschool.comCopyright 2002 RHL
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