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A German taxi-driver, Franz Busman, recently found his brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.
While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs. Bushman said that the workman was closely like her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother. Franz laughed at the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action during the war. Though Mrs. Bushman knew this story quite well, she thought that there was a chance in million that she might be right.
A few days later, she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bushman. Needless to say, the man’s name was Hans Bushman. And he really was Franz’s long-lost brother. When the brothers were reunited, Hans explained how it was that he was still alive.
After having being wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot. Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family house, but the house had been bombed. Guessing that his family had been killed during an air-raid(空袭), Hans settled down in a village fifty miles away where he had remained ever since.
21. Walking along the street, ______.
A. Mr. Bushman recognized his brother at the first sight.
B. Mrs. Bushman thought of her long-lost brother
C. Mr. and Mrs. Bushman talked to a workman because he looked like his brother
D. Mr. Bushman happened to meet a workman and talked to him
22. How do you understand the sentence “There was a chance in a million that she might be right?”
A. There was a little possibility of what she suggested, though little.
B. It was impossible for her to be right.
C. She had no chance to meet his brother any more.
D. There were many chances for her to meet his brother again.
23. Which of the following orders is right?
a. He walked back to Western Germany.
b. He was wounded when the war was coming to the end.
c. The hospital was destroyed by bombs.
d. He came back to his family house.
e. He was sent to hospital.
f. His unit of German didn’t exist any longer.
A. b, a, e, d, f, c B. b, e, c, a, f, d C. b, e, a, c, d, f D. b, c, f, d, a, e
