IF ANYONE SUCCEEDS IN SOLVING THE PROBLEMS, IT WILL PROBABLY BE HIM...

7. If anyone succeeds in solving the problems, it will probably be him.

He is the most ………

IV. Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A,B, C or D:

I had feared that my companion would talk, but it was soon plain (rừ ràng) that there was no such

danger. Two days passed during which we did not exchange a single word. He seemed, indeed, absolutely

unaware of my presence. He neither read nor wrote, but spent most of his time sitting at the table and

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looking out of the window across the pleasant parkland that surrounded the house. He sometimes talked to

himself and said things half under his breath. He bit his nails and once he produced a penknife and dug holes

in the furniture until one of the attendants (nhõn viờn) took it from him. I thought at first that perhaps he was

mentally ill. During the second day I even began to feel a little nervous of him. He was extremely large, both

broad and tall, with very wide shoulders and enormous hands. His huge head was usually sunk low between

his shoulders. He had dark, rather untidy hair and a big shapeless mouth which open very now and then.

Once or twice he began singing to himself, but broke off abruptly (bất ngờ) on each occasion - and this was

the nearest he seemed to get to noticing my presence.

By the evening of the second day I was completely unable to go on with my work. Out of a mixture

of nervousness and curiosity, I sat, too looking out of my window and blowing my nose, and wondering how

to set about establishing the human contact which was by now becoming an absolute necessity. It ended of

with my asking him for his name. He had been introduced to me when he arrived, but I had paid

no attention then. He turned towards me a very gently pair of dark eyes and said his name: Huge Belfounder.

He added:" I thought you didn't want to talk." I said that I was not at all against talking, that I had just been

rather busy with something when he arrived, and I begged his pardon if I had appeared rude.

It seemed to me, even from the way he spoke, that he was not only mentally ill, but was highly

intelligent; and I began, almost automatically, to pack up my papers. I knew that from now on I should do no

more work. I was sharing a room with a person of the greatest fascination