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We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.
"You could win prizes," our teacher told US as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She
passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, "The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to
make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster."
We studied the board critically. Some of US looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the
blackboard, rocking the sheets to the fight or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair
around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten-dollar grand
prize, each and every one of US. I'm going to spend mine on candies, one hopeful would announce, while
another practiced looking serious, wise and rich.
Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others
used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of US used big designs, and some of us preferred to
gather our art tidily down in one comer of our poster and let the space draw the viewer's attention to it. Some
of US would wander past the good students' desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense
of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick of the soil they seemed especially fond of making all of
US believe we had a fair chance, and then always-always-rewarding the same old winners.
I believe I drew a sailboat, but I can't say that with any certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it
to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen, and then I turned it in.
Minutes passed.
No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and I probably never
would have thought about that poster again.
I was still sitting at my desk, thinking, what poster? When the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-
dollar bill in it and everyone in the class applauded for me.
1. What was the teacher's requirement for the poster?
A. It must appear in time.
B. It must be done in class.
C. It must be done on a construction sheet.
D. It must include the words on the blackboard.
2. The underlined phrase in paragraph 3 most probably means _____.
A. formed an idea for
B. made an outline for
C. made some space for
D. chose some colors for
3. After the teacher's words,all the students in the class _____.
A. 1ooked very serious
B. thought they would be rich
C. began to think about their designs
D. began to play games
4. After seeing the good students' designs,some students _____.
A. 1oved their own designs more
B. thought they had a fair chance
C. put their own designs in a comer
D. thought they would not win the prize
5. We can infer from the passage that the author _____.
A. enjoyed grown-up tricks very much
B. 1oved poster competitions very much
C. felt surprised to win the competition
D. became wise and rich after the competition
