One day,I happened to talk to a stranger on the bus.

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One day， I happened to talk to a stranger on the bus. When he found out that I was from Chicago， he told me that one of his good friends lived there and he wondered if I happened to know him. At first I wanted to say that Chicago was a very big city. He was silent （沉默） for a few minutes， and then he began to tell me all about his friend.

He told me that his friend was an excellent tennis player， and that he even had his own tennis court （网球场）。 He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools， but that he only knew two people in the country had their own tennis courts. And his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several people like that. For example， my brother and my next-door neighbor. I told him that my brother was a doctor. The doctor had a tennis court. I said that my next-door neighbor went to Sacramento last summer and lived in the house next to my brother’s. For a moment， we looked at each other. But we did not say anything.

简单翻译下主体内容
作者遇到一个人，那人听说作者来自芝加哥，就说他有个朋友在芝加哥，作者想芝加哥是个大城市，自己肯定不认识他朋友。然后那人讲他那朋友是个出色的网球选手，还自己拥有一个网球场，还说他整个美国就知道两个人拥有自己的网球场。作者不以为然，说自己就认识好几个拥有网球场的，一个是他哥，一个他邻居，他邻居后来搬去他哥家附近，成了他哥邻居。然后他俩瞠目结舌对视一会。
最后作者说你朋友是不是叫Roland Kirkwood，那人大笑，问
你哥是不是叫Dr. Ray Hunter ，这次轮到作者笑了
答案应该都对
打得很散乱，参考下就行了。
36.A 37.C 38.D 39.D 40.B

38题的确有些不好判断，如果A项的possible是impossible就选A
C和D都不完全符合文中意思，但我认为两者相较。D更好些

accDB
最后一题不确定。

38题我比较确定，
39题可能该改成D
40题 源于这句话：I said that my next-door neighbor went to Sacramento last summer and lived in the house next to my brother’s。
我的邻居去年夏天去了Sacramento，住在我哥哥的隔壁。
这样看来，可以理解为他哥哥现在住在Sacramento，和“我”过去的邻居成了邻居。这样的话，B就比较合理了。

还是楼上答得比较好，我太粗心了。