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Reading Comprehending

Robbie Wilde clearly knows how to face life's challenges in chasing his

dream. In the articles that follow there are two more success stories

one is about an old refugee who got a degree from a famous American

university and the other is about a Chinese whose failed American dream

led to his Chinese dream

Reading 1

Janitor Filipaj

the Dream Pursuer

Verena Dobnik

I For years, Gac Filipaj"mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at janine

Columbia University. A ref

ar-torn

de a ivin

working for the Ivy League school since 1993. But Sunday, May 13, 2012, was

Payback time: The 52-year-old janitor put on a cap and gown to graduate with a pur

bachelor's degree in classics

2 As a Columbia employee, he didn't have to pay for the classes he took. His re

favorite subject was the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca, the janitor said cia

to the Associated Press reporter during a break from his work at the student union

building he cleans. "(1)[love Seneca's letters because they re written in the spirit in

a simple, honest, honorable life, "he si t to look for fame and fortune, but to ave

which I was educated in my family-not

3 For Filipaj, the degree comes after years of studying late into the night in his

Bronx apartment, where he'd open his books after a 2: 30-11 p.m. shift as a " heavy

cleaner"-his job title Before exam time or to finish a paper, he'd pull all-nighters

then go to class in the morning and then to work As his mother tongue is Albanian

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