阅读并判断对错 5 When a Korean woman who lives in the United States arrived at work one morning, her boss asked her, “Did you get a plate?” “No...” she answered, wondering what in the world he meant. She worked in an office. Why did the boss ask her about a plate? All day she wondered about her boss’s strange question, but she was too embarrassed to ask him about it. At five o’clock, when she was getting ready to go home, her boss said, “Please be on time tomorrow. You were 15 minutes late this morning.” “Sorry,” she said. “My car wouldn’t start, and...” Suddenly she stopped talking and began to smile. Now she understood. Her boss hadn’t asked her, “Did you get a plate?” He had asked her, “Did you get up late?” 6 “Auckland” and “Oakland.” “A plate” and “up late.” When similar- sounding words cause a misunderstanding, probably the best thing to do is just laugh and learn from the mistake. Of course, sometimes it’s hard to laugh. The 50 man who traveled to Auckland instead of Oakland didn’t feel like laughing. But even that misunderstanding turned out all right in the end. The airline paid for the man’s hotel room and meals in New Zealand and for his flight back to California. “Oh well,” the man later said, “I always wanted to see New Zealand.”