5? He believed that many old people certainly knew better — that God would come into his life. He felt he had to wait patiently to see Jesus in spite of the heat, the crowd, and the earnest entreaties of some of the members of the congregation. As he hadn't seen Jesus, he didn't want to lie and say he had, for he was basically an honest boy.
6? The lessons he learned were：
1) He couldn't resist the power to do what a great many people thought he should. People, old and young, men and women, all believed in the existence of almighty God; he had to do what they expected of him and sit on the mourner's bench to be saved and say Jesus had come.
2) If he didn't want to hold everything up, and if he wanted to save further trouble, he had better lie. The proverb “Honesty is the best policy”, he learned, did not always apply.
3) Religion was not what he wanted. He couldn't and wouldn't believe in his aunt and God any more since he had been deceived and forced to tell a lie.
7? He was saved from sin in an ironic sense. He was compelled to commit a sin (ie, to lie) in order to be “saved from sin”.
B? Reference version：
1? Every night for weeks, the priests gave sermons, and people sang songs in praise of God, worshipped God and shouted for joy. Some sinners who had never showed signs of shame or repentance were saved from sin and the number of the members of the church increased rapidly. 2? The clergyman spoke on religious matters to the congregation. His speech was marvellously regular and melodious; it was a mixture of the low sounds of pain, grief and suffering, loud and happy as well as lonely cries, and horrible pictures of the world sinners go to when they die. 3? The whole building shook with all the praying and singing.
4? All the people attending church service prayed only for me; their praying became one strong and powerful sound of pain and suffering.
5? The whole church became a sea of great joy.
6? When everything became quiet again, during a respectful silence, which was broken only by several people saying “Amen” extremely joyfully and happily, all the children were given blessings by the minister in the name of God.
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Comprehension
1? F (People were pleased because he was not only honest but also a good businessman.)
2? F (In fact, they were greatly interested in others' business. For example, George Williams and Clyde Ballard's wife listened to others' telephone calls on the party line.)
3? F (George also spoke ill of him. For example, he said, “Well, I always said that Sam Billings was the biggest crook that ever lived in the town of Androscoggin.”)
4? F (Florida was to the South of Androscoggin.)
5? T
6? F (No one told him of the things that had been said against him.)
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Comprehension