单选题 An old gentleman told a story when be and his friends were eating fish in a restaurant.
"When I was a young man I worked for a company in New York, and I fell in love with a pretty young girl. About two months before we got married, I was suddenly sent to Birmingham on very important business."
"I had to stay in Birmingham longer than I had expected. But just before I left for home, I bought a beautiful and very expensive diamond ring. I wanted to give it to my sweetheart."
"On my way to New York, I was looking through the morning newspaper. Suddenly I saw an announcement (通知) of my sweetheart"s marriage (婚姻) with another. This made me so angry that I threw the ring into the sea. A few days later, when I was eating fish I found something hard in the fish. What do you think it was?"
"The diamond ring." cried one of his friends. "No," said the old gentleman sadly, "It was a fish-bone."

单选题 The story is humorous.

单选题 The old man was working in Birmingham when he was young.

单选题 The old man bought the diamond ring two months before his marriage.

单选题 His girl-friend married him at last.

单选题 The hard thing that he found was a fish-bone instead of a diamond ring.