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Passage Four
A very strange old man used to live in our town. He didn’t do anything as the rest of people did. He lived alone and didn’t talk to anybody. He liked to walk in the woods where there were no roads, following the narrow paths made by animals. People were afraid of him. They thought he was crazy and might do something terrible, like hurting one of the children.
One day a little boy disappeared. His parents looked for him for hours, and finally the whole town started a search of the woods. Some people thought the strange old man bad taken the child away.
Several hours later, the boy was found, very cold and hungry, and it was the old man, who knew the woods so well, who had found him. After that, he still lived alone and walked in the woods, but no one was afraid of him any more.

The old man was very strange because （）
A. he liked to live alone
B. people didn't like him and were afraid of him
C. he liked to walk in the woods without roads
D. he didn't do anything as the others did

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Passage Four
A very strange old man used to live in our town. He didn’t do anything as the rest of people did. He lived alone and didn’t talk to anybody. He liked to walk in the woods where there were no roads, following the narrow paths made by animals. People were afraid of him. They thought he was crazy and might do something terrible, like hurting one of the children.
One day a little boy disappeared. His parents looked for him for hours, and finally the whole town started a search of the woods. Some people thought the strange old man bad taken the child away.
Several hours later, the boy was found, very cold and hungry, and it was the old man, who knew the woods so well, who had found him. After that, he still lived alone and walked in the woods, but no one was afraid of him any more.

What can we learn from the passage（）
A. Don't judge a person only by his behavior.
B. People need understanding.
C. Conditions can change a man.
D. Anyone has his strongpoints (优点) and shortcomings.

[单项选择]The boy thanked the old man very much.

[单项选择]The old man had four children, all of（）died during the Civil War.
A. them
B. whom
C. which
D. that

[单项选择]The newcomer is ________ a very old man, but in fact he is only a little over fifty.


A. surely
B. apparently
C. obviously
D. evidently

[单项选择]The old man was very strange because ______.

[单项选择]The old man has two rooms, one of （　） is used as his study.
A. which
B. that
C. them
D. whom

[单项选择]The old man used to ______ under the tree for hours after supper.


A. sit
B. sitting
C. seat

[单项选择]Evidence came up ______ the old man was the very person who had killed the little girl.

[单项选择]Evidence came up ______the old man was the very person who had killed the little girl.

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Passage One
The strange close understanding between twins is a familiar enough phenomenon. Often they seem to understand each other and share each other’ s emotions to such an extent that one suspects some kinds of thought communication.
What is not so widely known is that this special relationship often acts as brake on twins’ intellectual development. As they are partly isolated in their own private world, twins communicate less with adults than do other children. The verbal ability of a four-year-old twin is typically six months behind that of a non-twin. The problem can be particularly severe in a deprived home, a one-parent family for example, where there is little stimulation for children anyway.
Such children, while capable of mutual comprehension in a private language, often remain in comprehensible to outsiders and thus at a severe educational disadvantage. The only solution to the problem, cruel though it may seem, is to separa
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