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The other day Roy Price went "home" to his sister's house. It's her home, but it's also the house he
was born in. Pat, his sister kissed him and said, "You haven't changed much, Roy. Let me see, now
when did we meet last? ""Twenty-five years ago," he answered. "I came here for a week, do you
remember?" He added, "You haven't changed much, either. " It was polite for Roy to say so, but it
wasn't true. Pat seemed almost an old lady.
The next morning Roy walked through the village alone. The place looked very different. There were
lots of traffic signs on the roads and beside the roads, there was a new car park, a new post office, a
new bus stop. He remembered sudetenly that the bus used to stop everywhere, you just put up your
hand and it stopped. One surprise followed another. The railway station was gone. The school was gone, a lot of farm machinery stood in the playground.
But Roy's biggest surprise was the people. He didn't recognize (认出) anybody at all, perhaps
because every one seemed old. He went into the post office and bought some stamps. "Where are all the
children and young people?" he asked the postman.
The old fellow looked up from his book of stamps. "Children? " he said. " They're in school, of course.
There are three or four young families here. The children go to school by bus to Horham. " Horham was
a town about twenty kilometers away.
At lunch Pat said, "The village looks nice, doesn't it?"
"It's all different, Pat. It used to be an exciting place. But now it's full of old people. I don't
understand ..."
"There are a few new comers, but the ones we knew are still here. You're exactly young yourself,
Roy, are you?"
1. Why did Roy say that Pat hadn't changed, either? Because _____.
A. Pat was sill a young lady
B. they hadn't seen each other for twenty five years
C. he didn't know how much Pat had changed
D. it was a polite way to say so
2. Roy didn't recognized anybody at all because _____ .
A. the people of the village were all newcomers
B. they had become much older than before
C. he didn't know them at all
D. the people he knew had gone to school
3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Roy was a young man.
B. The people who Roy knew were still in the village.
C. Many old people moved into the village.
D. Roy was younger than the people he knew.
4. From the passage, we know that _____.
A. the postmaster understood what Roy asked
B. there was no school in the village before
C. the children Roy knew must go to school by bus
D. Roy didn't realize that he was twenty-five years older than before
5. The best title of the passage is "_____"．
A. Change
B. A surprise
C. It's Full of Old People
D. Polite
