广东省广州市2011年普通高中毕业班综合测试（二）（英语）

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     I saw the old man, with his untidy clothes and messy hair, as he dashed between the rows of the department store. He was trying to be ordinary but he was hard not to   1   .

     He   2   the saleswoman and with a slight  3  , possibly German, asked where the women’s shoes were sold. “ Fourth floor.” She responded in a voice I could hear 10 miles away. “ Pardon? Where did you say they were?” he asked again, apparently  4  . Clearly the old man was somewhat  5  . “ Fourth floor, sir,” the friendly saleswoman replied patiently, this time so  __6___ that customers turned to see what was causing the  7  .

     I continued watching as the man thanked the saleswoman and  8  for what I assumed was the fourth floor. But rather than walk to the  9  or the lift, he dashed behind a shelf, took out a notebook and started writing hurriedly, with an almost mad  10  on his face. Then he went straight up to another saleswoman and asked where the women’s shoes were sold. Again he asked her to  11  the answer and once more he walked away and took down some notes.

He did this three more times before a department store  12  , thinking him mad, removed him from the store. But rather than be  13  , the old man departed with a huge smile on his face. Although the incident was  14 _ , it was not until a year later, during my first year of university, that I gave it any further  15 _ . I walked into my language classroom and met my professor. It was that very same man.

A. see          B.notice          C. neglected       D. find