[单选题]Passage 2 Once upon a time there was a poor boy who lived in Denmark. His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again. One day the boy went to ask a favor of the Prince of Denmark. When the Prince asked him what he wanted, the boy said," I want to write plays in poetry and to act at the Royal Theater."The Prince looked at the boy, at his big hands and feet, at his big nose and large serious eyes, and gave a sensible answer. "It is one thing to act in plays, another to write them. I tell you this for your own good; learn a useful trade like shoemaking." So the boy, who was not sensible at all, went home .There he took what little money he had , said good-bye to his mother and his stepfather and started out to seek his fortune . He was sure that someday the name Hans Christian Andersen would be known all over Denmark. To believe such a story one would have to believe in fairy tales! Hans Christian knew many such tales. He had heard some of them from his father, who had worked hard at his trade, but liked to read better than to make shoes. In the evenings, he had read aloud from The Arabian Nights. His wife understood very little of the book, but the boy, pretending to sleep, understood every word. By day, Hans Christian went to house where old woman worked as weavers .There he listened to the tales that the woman told as they worked at their weaving .In those day, there were almost as many tales in Denmark as there were people to tell them.Why did Hans Christian go to house where old woman worked as weavers? A Because he wanted to listen her tales. B Because the old woman would give him food. C Because he wanted to earn money. D Because the old woman asked him to do so.