C
It was at least tow months before Christmas, when
nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her
Barbi bike was just too old, and it needed repairing as well.
As Christmas came nearer, her dream for a bike seemed
to disappear, so we thought, for she didn’t mention it again. We were busy
buying some beautiful storybooks, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then
much to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more
than anything else.
Now we didn’t know what to do. It was just toot late.
We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing children’s presents, parents’
presents, a brother’s present and friends’ presents till midnight.So there was
no time to take to buy the “right bike” for our little girl. Thinking that we
were parents who would make their children unhappy, we felt guilty and sad.
Suddenly my husband came up with an idea. “What if I
make a little bike out of clay(泥土) and write a note(便條) that she could trade in(交換) the model bike for a real one?” So he spent the next
five hours carefully working with the clay to make a small bike.
On Christmas morning, we were so excited for Almie
Rose to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the
note. She opened and read the note loudly.
She looked at me and Ron and said, ”So does this mean
I can trade in this bike for a real one?” Smiling, I said, “Yes.”
Almie Rose had tears in her eyes when she replied, “I
would never trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made me. I prefer to keep
it rather than get a real bike.” At that moment, we would have moved the God to
buy her every bike on the Earth.
1.Rose’s wish was to____ on Christmas Day.
A.get a new
bike B.make a clay
bike
C.receive a
doll house D.repair her
old Barbi bike
2.Rose’s parents didn’t buy her a bike because
she____.
A.didn’t want a bike any more
B.changed her
idea to some story books
C.didn’t mention it in the last tow months
D.asked for it
only on December 24
3.The word “guilty” in the third paragraph(段落) means____.
A.unhappy B.worried C.happy D.sorry
4.Rose’s father got a good idea to____.
A.spend five
hours finishing making a small bike with clay
B.make a small
bike red and white
C.make her old
bike red and white
D.put the
present in the box
5.From Rose’s words in the last passage , we know that
she____
A.still wanted
to get a real bike
B.didn’t know the meaning of the note
C.preferred a
real bike to a model bike
D.was greatly
moved by what her father had done