What is the purpose of the author to describe the occurrences in the church?
A. To demonstrate so many people are concerned with philanthropy.
B. To illustrate the manager's kindness.
C. To show that such coincidences should have some hidden relationship which people can hardly explain in words.
D. God or the cosmos had "synchronized watches" between the bookstore and the women's shelter.
What is NOT a coincidence according to the last three paragraphs?
A. When the manager called the shelter, there was a volunteer there.
Both the manager and the congregation were very kind.
C. The new liberary happened to become a new shelter.
D. The books the manager donated were what women were expecting.
The underlined part "made the hair on the back of her neck stand up"(Line 2, Para. 7) probably means that______.
A. the manager got very angry
B. the manager was taken aback
C. the manager was very thankful
D. the manager felt excited
What might be the author's intention to write this passage?
A. He wants to protest estrangement and isolation among the family members.
B. He disapproves the social changes.
C. He gives advice to old people on how to give full play to the rest of their lives.
D. He suggests that extended families are better than nuclear families.