There's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first

    There's a man in thehabit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn't stand it；now I'm used to it.

    I don't know his name. Iknow he's average in appearance，wears a gray suit，and has a common face. Onehot morning，when I was sitting on a tree­shaded benchin Palermo Park，reading the paper，suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same manwho now，as I'm writing，keepsstriking me with an umbrella.

    On that occasion I turnedaround filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he wascrazy. He didn't even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman.Calmly，cool asa cucumber，he stuck with his task. After a few momentsof hesitation，and seeing that he was not about tochange 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 aword again began hitting me on the head with the umbrella. His nose wasbleeding and，at that moment，Ifelt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him so hard. After all，the man wasn't exactly hitting me；he wasmerely tapping me lightly with his umbrella，not causingany pain at all. Of course，those taps were extremelybothersome. As we all know，when a fly lands on yourforehead，you don't feel any pain；what you feel is annoyance. Well then，thatumbrella was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time.

    Convinced that I wasdealing with a madman，I tried to escape. But the man followed me，wordlesslycontinuing to hit me. So I began to run(I should point out many people run asfast as I do). He took off after me，trying to land ablow. The man was out of breath so that I thought，if Icontinued to force him to run at that speed，he woulddrop dead right then and there.

1.When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella, theauthor________.

    A. became angry                     B.called the police

    C. turned around andescaped            D.turned around and fought back

2.The author would most probably agree that the man was ________.

    A. deaf                             B.blind

    C. dead                             D.mad

3.The author felt sorry for the man because________.

    A. the man formed a badhabit of beating others

    B. he hit the man so hardthat his nose bled

    C. the man couldn't catchup with him

    D. there was a fly on theman's head

4. It can be learned from the passage that the man ________.

    A. shouted loudly whilehitting the author

    B. wanted to tell theauthor something

    C. ran after the authorbreathlessly

    D. acted as if he were afly

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ADBC

【解析】略