题目内容
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. 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
striking me 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.
B. called the police
C. turned around and escaped
D. turned around and fought back
B. blind
C. dead
D. mad
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
B. wanted to tell the author something
C. ran after the author breathlessly
D. acted as if he were a fly
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