[单项选择]I remember ______ the novel some years ago It was very interesting.
A. to read
B. reading
C. read
D. to have read

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Some years ago I moved to the country. There were not many houses in the neighborhood at that time. The house closest to mine was occupied by a woman. She was about 60 years old and lived all by herself. I used to take a morning walk and on my way home the old lady would invite me to her house for a cup of tea. Soon we became good friends. We talked about a lot of things when we were together. But my neighbor never mentioned her family. It seemed to me that the old lady had no relations and her only life companion was her pet — a dog she called Tommy. One night in July I was fast asleep when I was suddenly awakened by the barking of a dog. When I opened the door, I was surprised to find Tommy there. When the dog saw me, it started running towards the house of its owner, stopped, barked at me, and started running again. I followed the dog to my neighbor’s house and found the old lady was lying on the floor. Later I learned from the doctor at the hospital that the old l
A. They took morning walk together.
B. They used to know each other before the speaker moved there.
C. They were the only people in that neighborhood.
D. The old lady often invited the speaker to her house for a cup of tea.

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Some years ago, I was caught in a sudden, blinding snowstorm near Indiana, Pennsylvania. My car stalled at the edge of town. I walked into town and into the nearest store. The shop owner phoned for help to get my car out of the deep snow.
In a short time, a tall blond man showed up with a team of horses and pulled my ear out of the snow into town. I asked him how much I owed him for his trouble. He refused any pay, saying, "I will charge you nothing but the promise that you will help the next man you find in trouble. " I thanked him and made the promise.
After he left, the storekeeper explained that the guy who had helped me was a Mennonite(蒙诺派教徒) who considered it wrong to charge anyone for a service made necessary by an act of God.
Four years later, a friend and I were driving over flooded land south of St.Louis, Missouri. We crossed through water a foot deep without difficulty, but through my rearview mirror, I could see that the small car beh
A. Kindness can spread from person to person.
B. Experiences of the author in different places.
C. How kind American people are.
D. How much the author liked sight-seeing when he was young.

[单项选择] I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January., I Had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died "full of years", as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, "If only 1 had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’’s my fault that she died." At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn’’t insisted on my mother’’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. It’’s my fault that she’’s dead." When thi
A. They lived out a natural life.
B. They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.
C. They weren’’t accustomed to the change in weather.
D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

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I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died out "full of years," as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me. "If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today: It’s my fault that she died." At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said," If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abru
A. everybody is at their command
B. life and death is an unsolved mystery
C. every story should have a happy ending
D. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens