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Ala. hotel doesn’t want flag group

　　MOBILE, Ala, April 10 (AP) — A hotel chain no longer will welcome a convention group whose members displayed the Confederate flag during a meeting last summer. Some members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans hung the flags from windows of the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Mobile, causing some black employees to refuse to show up to work. “I do think that a Confederate flag, to put it in front of a black person, is kind of like putting a red scarf in front of a bull. I think it’s something unnecessary,” Fred Kummer, president of the 21-chain, said from his office in St. Louis on Thursday.

　　1. The black employees thought that the Confederate flag was _____.
　　　A) necessary
　　　B) offending
　　　C) boring
　　　D) pleasant

　　2. Which of the following statements is true?
　　　A) People like to display a flag when they are eating.
　　　B) The black people are frightened when they see a Confederate flag.
　　　C) The people at the convention put a red scarf in front of a bull.
　　　D) The hotel doesn’t want to get involved in any dispute

　　3. The members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans are probably _____.
　　　A) drunk at the convention
　　　B) hostile to black people
　　　C) interested in bull fighting
　　　D) busy with meetings

　　4. The news shows that _____.
　　　A) the hotel will not welcome any convention groups
　　　B) black people are badly paid in the hotel
　　　C) the president of the hotel was very angry with his black employees
　　　D) black people didn’t want to see any confederate flag

　　5. The hotel president’s attitude toward the flag is _____.
　　　A) positive
　　　B) neutral
　　　C) angry
　　　D) negative

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