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Mr. and Mrs. Jones's flat was full of suitcases, trunks (大衣箱) and packed-up furniture (家具). The
two of them were busy with pencils and paper, checking their lists of luggage (行李), when there was a ring
at the door. Mrs. Jones went to open it, and saw a well-dressed middle-aged lady outside. The lady came to
welcome them to their new home.
The Joneses invited her in, after apologizing for the state of the flat.
"Oh, please don't stand on ceremony (典礼)with me," she answered. "Do you know, in some parts of
this town neighbors are not at all friendly. There are some streets, and even some blocks of flats, where
people don't know their neighbors, not even their next-door ones. But in this block of flats, everybody is
friends with everybody else. We are one big, happy family. I am sure that you will be very happy here."
The well-dressed lady got a shock when she came to visit the flat the next time, because she found a
quite different man and woman in it. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had not had the courage to tell her that they were
not the new owners of the flat, who were going to move in the next day, but the old owners who had lived
beside her for two years without her ever having visited them or even noticed their existence.
1. Mr. and Mrs. Jones's flat was full of suitcases and other packed-up things _____. [ ]
A. because they received a lot of things
B. because they were going to post them
C. because they bought a lot of things
D. because they were going to move out
2. When there was a ring at the door, the Joneses _____. [ ]
A. were talking to a well-dressed lady
B. were checking their list of luggage
C. were writing a letter
D. were packing up their furniture
3. The well-dressed lady thought that Mr. and Mrs. Jones were _____. [ ]
A. her old neighbors
B. her friends
C. the new owners of the flat
D. members of her family
4. What did the lady think of the people in that block of flats? [ ]
A. She thought that everybody was friends with everybody else.
B. She thought that people didn't know their neighbors.
C. She thought that neighbors didn't know their neighbors.
D. She thought that people only knew their next-door ones.
5. Why did the lady get a shock when she came to visit the flat the next time? [ ]
A. Because she found that Mr. and Mrs. Jones were her new neighbors.
B. Because the Joneses still stayed there.
C. Because the Joneses told her that they were going to leave from there.
D. Because she found a quite different man and woman in the flat.
