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Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và điền A hoặc B, C, D tương ứng với phương án lựa chọn đúng cho mỗi chỗ trống:

To the passer-by, number 7 Blyth Grove, in Worksop, looks just like any other fairly old house in Britain. But (1) inside and you go back into a vanished world, (2) William Straw's house is exactly as his parents left it when they died in the 1930s. William Straw, who died in 1990, lived in the house with his brother Walter after their parents' deaths. They lived (3 a strict routine, never married and had no (4) friends. They had no social life and callers were never (5) into the house. Their parents had a successful grocery shop and the family moved into the house in 1923, immediately spending £70 - a huge (6) in those days - on (7) redecoration. Their father died in 1932 and their mother in 1939, when William, then a history lecturer at London University, returned to Worksop. He (8) his job and set up house with Walter, who had been (9) the shop since their father's death. (10) the two cut themselves off from the rest of the world. Nothing that their parents had owned was ever moved or thrown away. Towards the end of their lives, it seems that they became aware of the value of what they had done, because they began to put labels on various pictures and items of furniture, explaining where they originally came from. Today, the house is open to the public, and visitors quickly realize that it is the closest they are ever likely to come to time travel.