Ever since 1 was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoyed the hot chocolate. 
  1 , winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. I would ask my grandmother  2 it didn’t snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions.   3 one day, she promised that she would make it snow on my next birthday.
That year,   4 my birthday, my grandmother died. I was sad but angry because she had promised to make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to the window, hoping to see just one snowflake(雪花). But there was no   5  . I felt mad at my grandmother. She had broken a promise.
By my sixteenth birthday, I   6 all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for it.
During my party, I stayed with my friends and family and was truly    7 . I  8 the best time ever! Then I saw the white snow   9 down all around. I was so excited that I ran around screaming and laughing. My friends all laughed   10 me, but I didn’t care.
When I   11 home, my grandpa said he had a gift for me. I was   12 because he had given me a gift. It was a small white box, which looked old. I opened it. There was a crystal snowflake(冰晶雪花)with a card that    13 , “Happy Birthday.”
How could this be? My grandpa said it was my grandmother’s final   14 on my “sweet sixteenth”. I cried.
I was   15 that my smiling grandmother angel was and had been watching over me.

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　　Once there was an old man. He liked very much to hear lies. “If anyone could tell me the most wonderful lie in the world, he could marry (娶) my only daughter,”the old man said.

　　So many people from different places came to the old man and told him a lot of lies. But every time the old man would try his best to show that the lie might have been true in some ways. He always said,“It's not a good lie. I would not give my daughter to you. ”

　　One day a young man came to the old man . The young man took out an old piece of paper from his handbag and said,“Your father borrowed one million dollars from my grandpa before he died. He wrote this for my grandpa and told us to take back the money from you. ”

　　The old man looked at the piece of paper and on it he could see some words : “Dear Mr. Blien, I have borrowed one million dollars from you but I'm not able to pay it back. Ask my son or my grandson to pay you the money some day after my death. ”

　　Now the old man didn't know what to do. “If I say it's a lie, I must give him my daughter ,”he thought to himself. “But if say it's not a lie ,I must pay him the money. ”

　　In the end he said, “It's a lie, a well-made lie. ”So the young man married the old man's daughter.

1．The old man had ________ .

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A．many children

B．one daughter

C．many daughters

D．one daughter and one son

2．The old man thought a good lie ________ .

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A．could make him very excited

B．couldn't be proved true in some ways

C．would bring his daughter money some day after his death

D．wouldn't take him one million dollars

3．The young man wanted to ________ .

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A．take one million dollars from the old man

B．make the old man glad

C．marry the old man's daughter

D．show that the old man was clever

4．The old man gave his daughter to the young man because ________ .

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A．he enjoyed the young man's lie very much

B．the young man had given him one million dollars

C．he was the young man's good friend

D．he didn't want to pay one million dollars to the young man