had a rare disease.In later life，I've learned that he suffered from the disease due to eating some vegetables that dogs had urinated(撒尿)on.It's common among Mediterranean people，more than it is in America.

　　Then，after my father's death，my family moved to a small apartment.There wasn't much money. It was the Depression(大萧条)．After the Depression ended，my mother got married to a man，John，who was a friend of my parents.We lived in a small apartment for a year or so.Then we moved to Detroit to live with my uncle George.

　　John and my uncle George treated me as if I were their son.I seldom write about my father，but I miss him now and then.I remember once he took me to watch a movie，a Charlie Chaplin movie.I enjoyed it very much.And I also remember he once picked me up after school.It snowed very heavily on that day.But the snow had been shoveled(铲)off to the side, and between the sidewalk and the street there were some piles of snow.My father and I walked on them.It was great fun.

　　【语篇解读】　作者小时候和父亲并不亲近。但自从父亲去世后，作者的生活发生了许多变化。虽然继父对作者很好，但是作者时不时会想起父亲。父亲曾带作者看过一次电影，也曾在下雪后接作者放学。

　　4．What can we learn from the first paragraph?

　　A．The author's father was very strict with him.

　　B．The author's father was very weak.

　　C．The author was not very close to his father.

　　D．The author couldn't get along with his father.

　　C　[细节理解题。根据第一段内容"I didn't have a close relationship with my father."可知C项正确；A项原文没有提到；根据第二段可知父亲吃了一种犬类撒过尿的蔬菜得病而死，但文中并没有提到父亲之前身体羸弱，故B项错误；作者与父亲不亲近，因为父亲总是很忙，他们相处的时间很少(从最后一段的记忆：看电影、接作者放学也可看出)，并不是无法相处，故D项错误。]

5．Why did the author's family move to a small apartment?