单选题
One day, I happened to (碰巧) talk to a stranger (陌生人,异乡人) on the bus. When he found (发现,找到,创办)out that I was from Chicago, he told me that one of his good friends lived there and he wanted to know if I happened to know him. At first I wanted to say that it was foolish (愚蠢的,可笑的) to think that I could possibly meet his friend since there were millions of people in Chicago. But, instead, I just smiled and said that Chicago was a very big city. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me all about his friend. He told me that his friend was an excellent (优秀的) tennis player (运动员) , and that he even had his own tennis court (网球场). He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools, but that he only knew two people in the country had their own tennis courts. And his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several people like that, for example, my brother and my next- door neighbour (邻居,邻接). I told him that my brother was a doctor and he lived in California. Then he asked where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that last year his friend spent the summer in Sacramento and lived next door to a doctor. The doctor had a tennis court (法院,院子), I said that my next-door neighbour went to Sacramento last summer and lived in the house next to my brother's. For a moment, we looked at each other, but we did not say anything. "Would your friend's name happen to be Roland Little Wood?" I asked finally (最终). He laughed and said, "Would your brother's name happen to be Ray Hunter?" It was my turn to laugh.
单选题
Where was the writer (作者,作家) from? ______
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】答案就在第一段的第二句。
单选题
Why did the writer say that Chicago was a very big city?
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】第一段中提到,it was foolish to think that I could possibly meet his friend since there were millions of people in Chicago. 后来作者婉转的表达了这个想法。A选项的意思与之吻合。
单选题
The writer's brother was a
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】第二段直接提到,I told him that my brother was a doctor...。
单选题
Who was Roland Little Wood?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】文章提到,作者的隔壁邻居在Sacramento有tennis court,并住在他兄弟——一个医生的隔壁。而陌生人也说到他的朋友Roland Little Wood有tennis court,住在一个医生的隔壁。这世界就是这么巧合!
单选题
When the stranger told the writer that he only knew two people in the country who had their own tennis courts, he meant that______.