Passage 1
Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage.
I was bom in a pleasant old colonial house built near 1750, and bought by mygrandfather sixty or seventy years ago. He joined a group of acquaintances whowere engaged in the flourishing West Indian trade of that time. For many yearshe kept and extended his interests in shipping, building ships and buying largequantities of timber, and sending it down the river and then to the sea. Thebusiness was still in existence in my early childhood, so I came in contactwith the up-country people who sold timber as well as with the sailors andshipmasters of the other side of the business. I used to linger about the busycountry stores, and listen to the lively country talk.
In my grandfather’s business household，my father had taken to his book，as old people said, and gone tocollege and begun that devotion to the study of medicine which only ended withhis life. He gave me my first and best knowledge of books by his own delightand dependence upon them, and ruled my early attempts at writing by his goodtaste. "Don't try to write about people and things, tell them just as theyare!" How often my young ears heard these words without comprehendingthem! But while I was too young and thoughtless to share in an enthusiasm forSterne or Fielding, and Smollett or Don Quixote, my mother and grandmother wereleading me into the pleasant ways of Pride and Prejudice, and The Scenes ofClerical Life, and the delightful stories of Mrs. Oliphant.
When the time came that my own world of imagination was more real tome than any other, I was sometimes perplexed at my father's directing myattention to certain points of interest in the character or surroundings of ouracquaintances. I cannot help believing that he recognized, long before I didmyself, in what direction the current of purpose in my life was setting. Now,as I write my sketches of country life, I remember again and again the wisethings he said, and the sights he made me see. I may have inherited somethingof my father’s knowledge of human nature, but my father never lost a chance oftrying to teach me to observe. I owe a great deal to his patience with a littlegirl given far more to dreams than to accuracy, and with perhaps too littlenatural sympathy for the dreams of others.
Which statement is true of the author’s grandfather?
A、He built the old colonial house around 1750.
B、He was employed by the busy country stores.
C、He took great interest in neighborhood affairs.
D、He made money by buying and selling timber.
【正确答案】：D