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Question

There’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn’t stand it now I’m used to it.

I don’t know his name. I know he’s average in appearance wears a gray suit and has a common face. I met him five years ago one hot morning when I was sitting on a tree-shaded bench in Palermo Park reading the paper. Suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same man who now as I’m writing keeps hitting me mechanically (机械地) and impassively with an umbrella.

On that occasion I turned around filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was crazy he didn’t even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman. Calmly cool as a cucumber he stuck with his task. After a few moments of hesitation and seeing that he was not about to change his attitude I stood up and hit him on the nose. The man fell down but he immediately got back on his feet obviously with great effort and without a word again began hitting me on the head with the umbrella. His nose was bleeding and at that moment I felt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him so hard. After all the man wasn’t exactly hitting me; he was merely tapping me lightly with his umbrella not causing any pain at all. Of course those taps were extremely bothersome. As we all know when a fly lands on your forehead you don’t feel any pain; what you feel is annoyance. Well then that umbrella was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time.

Convinced that I was dealing with a madman I tried to escape. But the man followed me wordlessly continuing to hit me. So I began to run (I should point out that not many people run as fast as I do). He took off after me trying to land a blow. The man was out of breath so that I thought if I continued to force him to run at that speed he would drop dead right then and there.

When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella the author ________.

A. became angry

B. called the police

C. turned around and escaped

D. turned around and fought back

The author would most probably agree that the man was ________.

A. deaf          B. blind           C. dead           D. mad

The author felt sorry for the man because ________.

A. the man formed a bad habit of beating others

B. he hit the man so hard that his nose bled

C. the man couldn’t catch up with him

D. there was a fly on the man’s head

It can be learned from the passage that the man ________.

A. shouted loudly while hitting the author

B. wanted to tell the author something

C. ran after the author breathlessly

D. acted as if he were a fly

Answer 1

【小题1】A
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
【小题4】C 解析: 阅读理解