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One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's
mistakes.It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about
that" and it is even harder to say"I was wrongand you were right about that."
I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake
fifteen years ago.He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the
neighborhood where I grew upand he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons(箱子).
Then he related an incident and I began to remember clearly the incident he was describing.?
I was about eight years old at the timeand I had gone into the store with my mother to
do the weekly grocery shopping.On that particular dayI must have found my way to dairy
food department where the incident took place.
There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive
display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons.The cartons were stacked (堆放)three
or four feet high.I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks.Just
then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons.
For some reasonI decided it was up to me to put the display back togetherso I went
to work.?
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened.When
he appearedI was on my knees examining some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs
were brokenbut to him it looked as though I was the criminal.He severely scolded me
and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs.I protested my innocence and tried to explain
but it did no good.Even though I quickly forget all about the incidentobviously the
manager did not.?
1.The author was __________ when he wrote this article.______
A.about 23
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