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An Empty Hotel

I’ve been the manager of the Pleasant Cove Hotel for twenty years, and until now I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. But when that tanker-got wrecked off the coast last week, everything in this town – and in my life – changed.

You see, the tanker spilled a lot of oil into the ocean and the oil got washed up onto the beaches here. The beaches were ruined, and so was my business. This is a tourist town, and all my employees are dependent on tourists for their salaries. But since there’s no money to pay my workers.

I certainly don’t blame tourists for not coming to Pleasant Cove this summer, and I hope my employees don’t blame me when I have to lay them off tomorrow!

True or False

1. The manager has worked at the hotel for fifteen years. __________

2. The beaches were ruined after the oil spill. __________

3. The hotel employees are dependent on tourists for their pay. __________

4. Pleasant Cove is in the mountains. ___________

Yes or No

1. Will the employees be laid of tomorrow? ___________

2. The manager’s life was changed by the oil spill, wasn’t it? _________

3. Is Pleasant Cove a tourist town? _________

4. Did the tanker spill oil into a river? __________