Passage 5 An old man was dying. He had only one relative, his son. The Red Cross called his“son”back from the army in an emergency. In the middle of the night, his“son” arrived at the hospital and was sitting beside the bed, holding his hand tightly and accompanying him all the time. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was there, but he paid no attention to her and the night noises of the hospital ——the clanking of an oxygen tank, the laughter of night-staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans and snores of other patients, Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son through most of the night. It was nearly dawn when the patient died. The Marine placed on the bed the lifeless hand he had been holding, and went to tell the nurse, While she did what she had to do, he smoked a cigarette——his first since he got to the hospital. Finally, she returned to the nurse's station, where he was waiting, she started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her."Who was that man?" he asked. "He was your father," she answered, startled. "No, he wasn't," the Marine replied," I never saw him before in my life." "Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked. "I knew immediately there'd been a mistake, but I also knew he need his son, and his son just wasn't here, when I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son. I guessed he really needed me. So I stayed."When did the patient pass away?
A.Nearly dawn. B.In the morning. C.In the afternoon. D.In the evening.正确答案A
