Question on Text B

7 . Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.

    Now I know why birds sit on telephone lines. They listen.
    I am either nine or ten years old. At the orphanage they call me Miguel.
    When I want to feel improtant, I say, "Call me Don Miguel. " I used to act important all the time because 1 felt I wasn't.

    Back then, no one liked me very much because I didn't like other peo
    But last year, I began to learn two important things: I was learning to see, not just look. And I was learning to listen, not just hear.
    I used to lie in the dark and make up relatives that I didn't have. My favorite relative was a nice old man who spoke Spanish, like me.

    One day a man came to see me. He said he was my uncle. "I don't have an uncle," I said.
    "Now you do , " he said.
    He was an old man who liked children. He had a boy once who went to Korea. His daughter moved to the City. He said the City can be a difficult place in which to live. He taught me how to see and listen. I don't know if he is my uncle or not; neither did he, but he came to see me often. I guess if you act like an uncle all the time, you are one.

    I was not a good student before my uncle came along. He took me walking in the fields. At one point he spread his arms and said. "It is all here. "
    "What?" I said.
    "Everything you need to know," he replied.

    At first it appeared to be nothing more than just a few trees. I thought I was nowhere. Then he had me close n-.y eyes. First I heard the breeze in the grass, then in the trees. I also heard a faraway train and a barking dog. For a while I heard nothing. I was almost scared. He said to listen harder.
    I heard my heart beat.
    beause I used to be so sad, I had almost forgotten that I had a heart.

    Once I asked him who he was.
    "An experiment , " he said.
    "What kind of an experiment?" I said.
    He grinned and said, "Nobody knows. Like you, there is no one in the world like me. So who is to say what I will be. "

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