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        Gary and Gavin were twin brothers who worked in a store owned by their father. After the father had passed away, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a twenty-dollar bill disappeared. Gary had left the bill on the cash register (收银台). But when he returned, the money was gone.

        Gary then asked his brother Gavin, "Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?' Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept asking. "Twenty-dollar bills can't walk away by themselves! Surely you must have seen it." "I said I didn't see it!" Gavin replied with anger.

       The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the center of the store. For twenty years, hostility (敌意) never ended.

        One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, "How long have you been here?" Gary replied that he'd been there all his life. "Then you are the person I'm looking for," the man said. "Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I haven't been able to forget that. I had to come back and apologize for that.

        The stranger felt shocked when seeing tears well up in the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. "Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?" Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more--after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in the front of the wall of the store.

        After twenty years, the wall that separated them finally came down.

    1. (1) Why was Gavin angry?
      A . Because he was not trusted by his brother. B . Because Gary took his twenty-dollar bill. C . Because he was left with little money by his father. D . Because Gary let go the thief who took the money.
    2. (2) What happened after the quarrel?
      A . The two brothers got well again. B . The two brothers stopped working.  C . The two brothers separate their store with a wall. D . The two brothers went to different places for a living.
    3. (3) Who actually took the money away?
      A . Gary and Gavin's father. B . The stranger. C . Gary. D . Gavin
    4. (4) What does the underlined word "broke" mean in Paragraph 4?
      A . Getting hurt. B . Being thirsty. C . Being happy. D . Having no money.
    5. (5) We can learn from the last sentence of the passage that_________________
      A . The wall disappeared because it was built for a long time. B . The two brothers at last no longer hated each other. C . The two brothers wanted to make their store bigger. D . The stranger would help build a new wall.

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