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4th Grade Reading Comprehension (Set 5) - Taxi
_____Most taxi drivers are honest people who take you where you want to go. However, one driver in a big city had worked out what seemed to be a very clever plan for cheating his customers. _____The first VICTIM to report the driver’s SCHEME was a young woman. Arriving home late one night in the cab, she paid the $2.50 fare with a ten-dollar bill. The driver gave her a five-dollar bill, two singles, and fifty cents in change. The woman gave the driver a fifty-cent tip and left the cab. The driver wished her a pleasant good night. _____In the morning, the woman discovered that she had not received the correct change at all. What the driver had really given her was the coins, two normal singles and a dollar bill with the numeral five pasted in each corner. In the dark cab, this made the single pass for a five-dollar bill. In the morning the woman was able to see the paste job and the picture of George Washington. _____Now the police are busy looking for the cab driver. And the young woman is looking very carefully at every dollar bill that comes her way.
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