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Christmas was just a week away and I had five people left to shop for and only three dollars.
"Let's set a price limit(限制)on our gifts this year," I suggested to my best friend Joanie.
"That's a good idea,"Joanie agreed."How about nothing over five dollars?"
"How about sixty cents?" I felt like the biggest cheapskate in the world.
"I guess this is where I'm supposed to say it's not the gift but the thought that counts,"Joanie smiled.
It is almost impossible to buy anything under sixty cents, so it was really going to have to be very small
gifts with very big thoughts.
Finally, Christmas Day arrived. I gave my mother a candle with a note that said," You are the brightest
light in my life." She almost cried when she read the note.
I gave my brother a wooden ruler. On the back of it I had painted,"No brother in the world could measure
up to (比得上) you." He gave me a bag of sugar and had written on it, " You ' re sweet."
For Joanie, I painted a pair of shoes with a note that said, " No one could ever fill your shoes (代替你)."
She thanked me and said I always tickted (搔) her and made her laugh.
To my other two friends, I gave Annie a paper fan and a note on it,"I' m your biggest fan." I gave Helen a
calculator (计算器) that cost one dollar and I painted a message on the back,"You can always count on(依靠)
me." My mother knows she is the most important person in my life.
My brother thinks I' m sweet. Joanie thinks I' m funny and make her laugh, which is important because her
dad moved away last year and she misses him and is sad sometimes.
1. When Christmas neared, the author worried that she _____.
A. had few friends to give her gifts
B. had little money to buy gifts for others
C. didn' t know what gifts her friends would like
D. didn' t have enough time to shop
2. The underlined word "cheapskate" in Paragraph 4 may mean a person who _____.
A. is the poorest in the world
B. buys the cheapest skateboards
C. spends as little money as possible
D. buys the cheapest things in the world
3.The author gave her mother a candle because it represents _____.
A. her life
B. her mother' s life
C. her role in her mother' s life
D. her mother' s role in her life
4. What lesson can we learn from the passage?
A. It is an art to choose gifts.
B. It is the thought not the gift that matters.
C. How to choose cheap gifts.
D. Giving gifts improves friendships.
