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The conjoined (连体的) twin Abby Hensel married her boyfriend Josh Bowling in 2021, who used to be a soldier. But the news has only just gone public after the sisters Abby and Brittany shared photos from the wedding on social media. The marriage was also confirmed by recent documents, which show the sisters and Bowling live in Minnesota, where the Hensels grew up.

In a 2003 interview, the twin sisters said they would like to become mothers one day, something their mother Patty Hensel said is possible. “Yeah, we’re going to be moms,” said Brittany. “We haven’t thought about how being moms is going to work yet. But we’re just 13 — we don’t need to think about that right now.” Now the twin sisters are having careers in teaching in their home state.

The sisters are dicephalus conjoined twins, which means they share all organs below the waist and share a bloodstream. They also independently control the arm and leg on the respective side of their body. After Abby and Brittany were born, their parents decided against separation surgery because it could leave one or both of them dead. “People have been curious about us since we were born, for obvious reasons,” the twins said. “But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. We were raised to believe we could do anything we wanted to do. ... The most amazing thing about us is we are like everyone else.”

The conjoined sisters came under the public spotlight after an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996 and went on to star in the reality series Abby and Brittany, which explored their day-to-day life. The Internet, as expected, had some questions for the newly-married couple. The Hensels took to TikTok to respond to the “haters”. They also shared a slideshow of conjoined twins represented in ancient sculptures with the caption (配文), “The Internet is extra LOUD today. We have always been around.”

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1.What is TRUE about the twin sisters?

A They were born in 1990.

B They became moms in 2003.

C They wanted to join the army.

D They never thought of marriage.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据第二段的“In a 2003 interview”以及“But we’re just 13”可知，2003年她们13岁，可知她们出生于1990年。故选A。

2.Why didn’t the twins have a separation surgery?

A Because they shared all organs below the waist.

B Because their parents had financial problems.

C Because it could most likely cause them death.

D Because people were too curious about them.

解析：选C。C 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“After Abby and Brittany were born, their parents decided against separation surgery because it could leave one or both of them dead.”可知，这对双胞胎姐妹的父母决定不让她们接受分离手术，因为手术可能会导致她们其中一个甚至两人死亡。故选C。

3.What do the twins think of themselves?

A They are amazing women.

B They are nobody special.

C They deserve the attention.

D They show love to everyone.

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“The most amazing thing about us is we are like everyone else”可知，这对双胞胎认为她们跟其他人一样，即她们没有什么特别的。故选B。

4.What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?

A The Internet always brings bad news.

B The Internet is full of various opinions.

C The Internet often makes things worse.

D The Internet makes news spread widely.

解析：选D。D 句意理解题。根据最后一段第一句“The conjoined sisters came under the public spotlight...The Internet, as expected, had some questions for the newly-married couple.”这对连体姐妹被大众熟知，网友也不出意外地对这对新婚夫妇很好奇；并结合划线句后一句“We have always been around.”到处都能看到我们，由此可知划线句子表示“如今网络让信息传播得很广泛”。故选D。