(单选题)

What can we learn from the passage?

A.The author died of illness.

B. The author found his mother’s grave.

C.The author’s father always wanted to move back to their hometown.

D.The author’s father was dying.

参考答案：D

参考解析：

细节理解题。根据第一段倒数第四句“He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay”可知，父亲只是想回家乡看一眼，并不想定居停留。故C选项错误；根据第一段最后一句“He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own”可知作者的父亲生病了，D项符合。根据最后一段倒数第五句“He said that there was now no village”可知村庄已不在了，所以作者应该是没有找到母亲的墓，B项错误；A项文中未提到。故选D。

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