Once upon a time，a poor family had only one small roll of expensive gold wrapping（包装）paper．The father had no money to buy any more．On Christmas Eve his 5-yeatold daughter decorated（装饰）a shoe box with all the gold paper and put it under the Christmas tree．The father was quite unhappy about it．

The next morning the little girl，filled with excitement，brought the gift box to her father and said．“This is for you，Daddy!”

As he opened the box，the father found it was empty．At once he shouted at her．“Don’t you know，young lady，when you give someone a present，there should be something inside the package!”

The little girl almost cried out．She looked up at him and said，“Daddy，it's not empty．I blew kisses into it until it was all full．”

The father was moved．He fell on his knees and put his arms around his pretty little girl．He asked her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger．

Before long an accident took the lire of the child．The father kept that little golden box by his bed for the following years of his life．Whenever he was faced with difficult problems，he would open the box，take out an imaginary（想象的）kiss and remember the love of his beautiful child who had put it there．

In a very real sense，each of us，as a human being，has been given an invisible（隐形的）gold box filled with true love and kisses from our children，parents and friends．There is no more valuable thing than this．

1．What did the little girl do on Christmas Eve?

A．She blew her kisses into the shoe box until she thought it full．

B．She put a beautiful gift into the shoe box for her dear father．

C．She decorated a Christmas tree with the gold wrapping paper．

D．She wrapped the shoe box and put it on the Christmas tree．

2．How did the father feel when he opened the gift box for the first time?

A．Happy．               B．Proud．                C．Sad．              D．Angry．

3．The father kept the box for the rest of his life because __________．

A．it was his only Christmas present              B．it was made an expensive gold

C．it was full of his daughter's love                  D．it was a very useful shoe box

A: Hi, Li Lei, I haven’t seen you for a long time. (1)_______?

B: I have been to London (2)_______ Christmas.

A: Really? How (3)_______ you are!

B: Thank you.

A: Who did you stay with?

B: I stayed with Tom (4)_______ the Christmas season.

A: Oh, what did you do then?

B: We (5)________ the Christmas tree, met his relatives, went to see Christmas play and so on.

A: How interesting! What was the Christmas play (6)_______?

B: About Jesus Christ.

A: Oh, I see, Christmas Day is the (7)______ Jesus.

B: That’s right. And it (8)_______ the story of Bible（圣经）.

A: Thanks for telling me so much. I wish I could (9)______ Christmas in Western countries some day.

B: I’m sure your dream will (10)_________.

When I was ten, my sisters and I were amazed at our neighbor’s Christmas tree. We returned home from their house and decided that we must have one of our own. In our house we never had enough money for a Christmas tree.
In fact, we insisted so much that my father had no choice but to agree. “Yes!” he finally said.“This year we will have a Christmas tree.” Our mouths dropped open at the thought of having our own tree. Then Dad said,“I’ll do it myself.”
We followed him around the house as he gathered up the materials he would need, We all sat close to him, carefully watching everything he did. He passed the thread around the first nail on the corner of a box, then back down to the second nail on the box, and up again to the nail, until right there before our eyes a green Christmas tree began to take shape. He carefully did the same with all of the 50 nails in the box and when he had finished, he said,“Now you can decorate it.”
I don’t remember where the decorations came from, but they were red and small and to us they just looked so beautiful and perfect for our tree. When we finished decorating it, we proudly invited all our friends over to see our Christmas tree. We were so happy, not only because it looked so pretty, but because my father had made it himself. It truly was the most beautiful Christmas tree we had ever seen.
Years later, things got better and Dad was able to buy a proper Christmas tree which we would happily decorate. However, my sisters and I will never forget the night when we got our first Christmas tree.
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