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My family moved to a small town in central Georgia(乔治亚州), where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English, and from what I could gather from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one's chimney(烟囱) and put toys in one's stocking on Christmas Eve! “What an interesting festival!” I thought. After I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese - English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.
On that important night, after everyone went to bed, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail(钉子) already on the mantel(壁炉架). Obviously, the previous (之前的) owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa.
I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplace. To make a sad story short, I was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. I burst into tears, quickly took down the sock, and hid it in the back of a drawer. Santa was dead.
Every December since then, the topic of Christmas memories would come up, and I would tell my friends about my poor - little - me story. I had to make it as funny as possible, or else I would cry.
How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an old man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I've been looking for you for twenty - five years.” He handed me a red stocking, smiled, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It read, “For Becky — I may have missed you in the second grade, but you've always lived in my heart — Santa.”
Through tear - blurred eyes, I recognized(认出) the handwriting of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later discovered that the old man was her father. Jill had seen the hurt inside the girl and decided to do something about it.
So now I believe that Santa is real. I don't mean the twinkle - eyed character of children's mythology(神话) or the creation of American holiday marketers. Those Santas annoy(使……厌烦) and sadden me. I believe in the Santa Claus that lives inside good and thoughtful people. This Santa does not return to the North Pole after sending kids gifts but lives each day purposefully, really listens to friends, and then plans acts of kindness.
( ) 1. What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Waiting for Santa Claus.
B. Putting a stocking on the mantel.
C. Asking for gifts from her parents.
D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary.
( ) 2. By writing the passage, the writer speaks highly of ______.
A. friendship B. parents C. religion(宗教) D. culture
( ) 3. The writer of the passage is probably ______.
A. a teenager B. a primary school student
C. a middle - aged woman D. a native(土生土长的) American
My family moved to a small town in central Georgia(乔治亚州), where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English, and from what I could gather from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one's chimney(烟囱) and put toys in one's stocking on Christmas Eve! “What an interesting festival!” I thought. After I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese - English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.
On that important night, after everyone went to bed, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail(钉子) already on the mantel(壁炉架). Obviously, the previous (之前的) owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa.
I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplace. To make a sad story short, I was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. I burst into tears, quickly took down the sock, and hid it in the back of a drawer. Santa was dead.
Every December since then, the topic of Christmas memories would come up, and I would tell my friends about my poor - little - me story. I had to make it as funny as possible, or else I would cry.
How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an old man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I've been looking for you for twenty - five years.” He handed me a red stocking, smiled, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It read, “For Becky — I may have missed you in the second grade, but you've always lived in my heart — Santa.”
Through tear - blurred eyes, I recognized(认出) the handwriting of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later discovered that the old man was her father. Jill had seen the hurt inside the girl and decided to do something about it.
So now I believe that Santa is real. I don't mean the twinkle - eyed character of children's mythology(神话) or the creation of American holiday marketers. Those Santas annoy(使……厌烦) and sadden me. I believe in the Santa Claus that lives inside good and thoughtful people. This Santa does not return to the North Pole after sending kids gifts but lives each day purposefully, really listens to friends, and then plans acts of kindness.
( ) 1. What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Waiting for Santa Claus.
B. Putting a stocking on the mantel.
C. Asking for gifts from her parents.
D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary.
( ) 2. By writing the passage, the writer speaks highly of ______.
A. friendship B. parents C. religion(宗教) D. culture
( ) 3. The writer of the passage is probably ______.
A. a teenager B. a primary school student
C. a middle - aged woman D. a native(土生土长的) American
答案
1-3 BAC
