一篇英语小短文
George Banks was a clever journalist. He worked for a good newspaper, and he liked arguing very much. He argued with anybody, and about anything. Sometimes the people whom he argued with were as clever as he was, but often they were not.
He did not mind arguing with stupid people at all: he knew that he could never persuade them to agree, because they could never really understand what he was saying, and the stupider they were, the surer they were that they were right; but he often found that stupid people said very amusing things.
At the end of one argument which George had with one of these less clever people, the man said something which George has always remembered and which has always amused him. It was, “Well, Sir, you should never forget this: there are always three answers to every question: you answer, my answer, and the correct answer.”
1. It seemed to George as if ________.
A. it was more interesting to argue with as clever people as he was
B. it was more interesting to argue with clever people than with stupid ones
C. it was more interesting to argue with stupid people than with clever ones
D. it was no good arguing with stupid people
2. From the passage we can conclude that________.
A. George did nothing but argue with others
B. George was a man full of sense of humour
C. George always won the arguments
D. What George said was difficult to understand
3. Why didn’t George mind arguing with stupid people? Because ________
A. he wanted to win the arguments
B. he wanted to make the arguments more heated
C. stupid people could be easily fooled
D. what stupid people said could often give him greater pleasure
4. What one of the stupid people said at the end of one argument could be considered very________.
A. clever B. stupid C. strange D. special
2.A 从这段短文我们可以总结出，（George除了和别人争吵之外，什么也不做。）
3.D George为什么不介意和愚蠢的人争吵，因为（愚蠢的人所说的话，会给他带来更大的快乐。）
4.A 一个愚蠢的人在一次争吵中说的最后一句话被认为很（聪明）
