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One day after lunch, Don was pulling the usual kind of envelopes from the mailbox outside his home in Orchard Lake Village, Michigan, when he noticed something out of the ordinary. A tiny doll couple were sitting on a love seat inside the mailbox. A small note was also in the box.
“We’ve decided to live here,” the message read. It was signed by Mary and Shelley.

Don found that somebody must have left the wooden dolls inside his mailbox by mistake. He and his wife, Nancy, set up the mailbox several years ago.
“We could understand why dolls would want to move into such a nice mailbox, but we were still puzzled,” Don said.
“I asked the neighbors whether anybody had left dolls in the mailbox, and everyone told me no,” he said. “So I thought this must just be a joke and that whoever left them here would come back to get them. I moved them to the back of the mailbox to see what would happen.”
“A few days passed and nobody got the dolls back,” he said, noting that he and his wife soon discovered that the small couple had got a table, a quilt and a pillow.
“I also have a sense of humour, so I left a note of my own, saying that what the home really needed was a fridge filled with food,” he said.
The fridge was never delivered. But over the next several months, more things secretly showed up: a four-poster bed, a painting and a wood-burning stove.
More than a year later, Mary and Shelley are still living in the mailbox, to the joy of neighbors who now follow Don's updates on Orchard Lake Village's Nextdoor page. Don first posted something about the tiny things in 2022, hoping that that might help solve the secret.
“Some people firstly thought that I had planted the dolls myself, but that is not true,” Don said. “All I did was provide a mailbox. Somebody else decided to make it a home for Mary and Shelley.” “It was honestly a surprise to us,” Nancy said.
A neighbor called Terry said he believed that Don had not moved the dolls into the mailbox by himself.
“It’s just somebody out there who is having some fun, giving us all a little community humour,” Terry said. “Whoever is doing this is obviously somebody who is incredibly artistic and clever. Don has a lot of skill sets, but doing something this detailed with dolls isn’t his forte.”
Don now doesn’t want to know who is responsible for the mailbox story because he’s hoping it will continue.
()1. What is TRUE about Don according to Paragraph 1?
A. He moved away from Orchard Lake Village.
B. He repaired the mailbox outside his home.
C. He found a doll couple in the mailbox.
D. He wrote a message about the doll couple.
()2. What did Don do with the dolls?
A. He threw them away.
B. He sent them to his neighbor.
C. He gave them back to their owner.
D. He put them at the back of the mailbox.
()3. Which is the best word to describe Don and the community?
A. Humorous.
B. Serious.
C. Wealthy.
D. Powerful.
()4. 新考法·情节推断 What is the ending of the story?
A. Someone took the dolls away.
B. The story of dolls would still continue.
C. Don found the owner of the dolls.
D. Someone was responsible for the story.

Don发现有人把一对玩偶放进了他家的信箱，但他找不到玩偶的主人。Don留下便条，说玩偶缺少冰箱，接下来几个月，不少物件出现在玩偶旁边，这些幽默的行为让社区充满温暖。
1. C 细节理解题。由第一段中“Don was pulling ... when he noticed something out of the ordinary. A tiny doll couple were sitting on a love seat inside the mailbox. ”可知，Don在信箱里发现了一对玩偶。
2. D 细节理解题。由第五段中“I moved them to the back of the mailbox to see what would happen. ”可知，Don把玩偶放到信箱背面。
3. A 推理判断题。通读全文可知，社区居民配合Don一起丰富与玩偶相关的事物。由此可推知，humorous最适合用来描述Don与社区居民的品质。倒数第二段中的giving us all a little community humour也提示本题答案。
4. B 情节推断题。由最后一段“Don now doesn't want to know who is responsible for the mailbox story because he's hoping it will continue. ”可知，关于玩偶的故事将会继续下去。