(单选题)

What do we know about Tom?

A.He was seriously ill.

B.He was a dishonest boy.

C.He was crazy about magic.

D.He was Dr.

E.stein’s patient.

参考答案：A

参考解析：

细节理解题。由第一段第三句“Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone.”和最后一句“He came through several operations and a lot of pain by mastering his imagination.”可知Tom病得很重，A项正确；B项（他是一个不诚实的孩子）和C项（他对魔术着迷）都是无中生有；由第一段第三句Fred Epstein, in his book If I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of his friends about Tom可知，有关Tom的事情是Dr. Epstein从他的一个朋友那里听来的，因此可排除D项（他是Dr. Epstein的病人）。故选A。

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