Read the passage carefully and answer the questions briefly by referring
back to Passage Four. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Actually, he did like something: his business.
1 The problem was that while he was still a fabulously
wealthy man, he had recently begun to make big mistakes.
2 He insisted on buying companies at very high prices,
only to watch them fail or go bankrupt. Ellsworth was in
pretty good shape for a 76-year-old, but his business failures were ruinous to
his health. 3 He had suffered his
last heart attack after his disastrous purchase of a small railroad in Iowa.
4 The health problem he suffered
before that came about because of excitement over the failure of a chain of
grocery stores, stores which he had purchased at an inflated price. It
seemed that all his recent purchases had to be liquidated at a great sacrifice
to both his pocketbook and his health. 5 They were beginning to have serious effects.