But the full story has 1,100 words; I have to give up

If you have got the book "The Multicultural Workshop" by Linda London Blanton & Linda Lee (published by Heinle & Heinle Publishers), you can see the article "A Lucky Traffic Light" inside by Irving Stern, in which my "cut" and "apple" questions come out of.

So does "cut" mean "get 100 in that new job"?
Who is called an apple?

Sorry, sphinx, I don't have the book. Concerning "cut", were you quoting directly from the "Lucky Traffic Light" story, or paraphrasing? The word didn't make sense to me in the context you gave; can you quote a few sentences directly? (I don't recall your "apple" question--what was the date?)

I found it--Sept 7, "some phrases":
"6.What kind of person could be called as an apple?"

No idea, again. Quote something that gives context.

Don't give up, but realize that often we need a complete sentence to interpret a single word; the context of the whole sentence makes it clear. Often, we need more than a sentence, if there are connected thoughts that refer to each other over the length of a paragraph ... but we do need at least the full sentence in which the phrase appears.