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Choose the best answer and complete the passage.
There lived a strange old man in Sunflower City. He1 came out or talked to his neighbours.
One day, a little boy selling magazines walked up to his house. He knocked on the door and waited. When he was about to leave, the door slowly opened. "What do you want?"
"Sir, I am selling these magazines, and I want to know if you would like to buy one."
The old man just looked at the boy. The boy could see the old man had dog figurines (小雕像) on the fireplace inside the house," Do you 2 dog figurines?" the little boy asked.
"Yes, they are my family. They are all I have."
The boy then felt 3 for the man. "Well, I do have a magazine here for collectors.
And I also have one about dogs since you like dogs so much."
The old man was ready to close the door and said, "No, boy, I don't need magazines of any kind, and now goodbye."
Sitting in the bedroom unhappily, the boy 4 a little dog figurine he got from an aunt. He headed back to the old man's house with it. He knocked on the door again, and this time the old man came right to the door. "Boy, I thought I told you no 5." The boy handed him the figurine, and the old man's face lit up.
From that day on, the old man started coming out of the house and meeting people.
This simple nice act 6 the old man's life forever.
