OBERLIN，Kansas（AP）一A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in l914，but its journey was much slower than Christmas．It has just arrived in northwest Kansas recently．The Christmas card was dated December 23，1914，and mailed to Eth-el Martin of Oberlin，apparently from her cousins in Alma，Nebrasks．

“It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century，”O(jiān)berlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said．

    “It’s surprising that it never got thrown away，”he said．“how someone has found it，I don’t know．”

    Ethel Martin has passed away，but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative．that’s how the 95-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin：Ethel’s sister-in-1aw．She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois．

    “that’s all we know�！眘he said．“But it is kind of curious．We’d like to know how it got down there．”

“the card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin—the one cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn’t have covered it，”Martin said    “We don’t know much about it.”she said．“but wherever they kept it，it was in perfect shape．”

1．Where did Ethel Martin Live?

    A．In Illinois．                        B．In Kansas。

  C．In Oberlin．                          D．In Alma．

2．Who was supposed to have received the postcard?

    A．Bernice Martin．                B．Ethel Martin．

    C．Santa Claus．                       D．Steve Schultz．

3．What seems quite mysterious is that__________．

    A．how it was sent to a relative

    B．the postcard was still in shape

    C．where the old postcard was kept

    D．the card waft in a modem envelope．

4．What does“the 95-year-old relic”in Paragraph 4 refer to?

    A．The Christmas card．

    B．An ancient cultural relic in Illinois．

    C．An envelope with modem postage．

    D．A house passed down by Ethel Martin．

5．The best title of the passage would be________．

    A．A Christmas Card without Postage

    B．Too Late Christmas Greetings

    C．The Origin of a Christmas Card

    D．A Careless Postman

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