Lisa was an attractive young woman, and she always combed her hair neatly and wore pretty clothes. She worked in a small town and earned enough money to take a vacation in the mountains during the summer.

The first time that Lisa went there, she discovered that she hadn't brought enough money. At first she was worried, but then she remembered that she had brought her checkbook with her and went to the bank to cash a check. The bank teller had never seen Lisa before, but he knew that a lot of people were stealing checkbooks and using them, so he said to her, “Can you identify yourself, please?"

Lisa had never been asked to do this in her home town, so she looked puzzled for a moment; but then she took her mirror out of her handbag, looked at it, and then said happily, "Yes, it is me."

A    Answer these questions:

1. Where did Lisa go for her vacation?
2. Why did she have to go to the bank during her vacation?
3. What did the bank teller ask her?
4. Why did he say this?
5. How did Lisa feel about this?
6. What did she do and then say?

B    Which of these answers are correct? Write down the questions and the correct answers.

1. Was Lisa an attractive woman?

1. Yes, she was.
2. No, she wasn't.

2. Could she afford to take a summer vacation?

1. Yes, she could.
2. No, she couldn't.

3. What worried her on her first vacation in the mountains?

1. She didn't have enough money.
2. She had forgotten her checkbook.

4. Why didn't the bank teller want to cash her check?

1. Because he had never seen her before.
2. Because he knew that she had stolen the checkbook.

5. What did the bank teller ask her to do?

1. To make sure that she was really Lisa.
2. To show him some proof that she was Lisa.

6. What did Lisa do to identify herself?

1. She looked in her mirror.
2. She showed the bank teller a photograph of herself.

C    Write this story, putting one word in each blank space. You will find all the correct words in the story.

George worked in a bank as a __________. One day an ________ young woman came into the bank and gave him a ________. She wanted him to ________ it for her, but George had never seen her before, so he said, "Can you ________ yourself?"

The woman was very _________ when she heard this. She was on ________ from her home town, and hadn't brought much money. But then she opened her _______, took out a photograph of herself, and showed it to George, smiling _________.

George looked at it for a ________ and then said, "Yes, that's you," and he gave her the money.