One day my 5-year-old daughter, Mini, ran to the window crying: "A Cabuliwallah(喀布尔商贩)!A Cabuliwallah!" In the street below was Rahmun,a Cabuliwallah passing slowly along. Mini called him
21 ,but when he looked at her she ran away scared. As time went by, they got to know each other and started to
22 together,
laughing and talking all the way. Rahmun would give her grapes and strawberries,spending the Iittle money he had
23 her. The two often enjoyed jokng together.Rahmun
24 say: "Well, little one, when are you going to the father-in-law's house?"Mini did not understand this and was
25 .One morning,l saw Rahmun being led away by the police. There was some blood on his clothes .I
26 a neighbor had owed Rahmun money but denied it,and that in the course of the 27 Rahmun had struck him. On a charge of murderous attack, Rahmunwas
28 to prison.
Time passed. Mini grew up and we were making arrangements,for her
29 .I was sitting in my study
30 someone entered. It was Rahmun, his face pale and dirty and I could
31 recognize him! He said all those years ago Mini -had reminded him of his own daughter in Kabul. It was his belief that Mini was
32 the same. He had once
33 Mini running to him calling 66 A Cabuliwallah!" and pictured them laughing and talking together.
The two were now reunited. But when he made
34 once more, Mini's face turned red. They could not recover their old
35 .When Rahmun left, l gave him a bank note,
36 : "Go back to your own daughter, and may the happiness of your meeting bring good
37 to my child!"
Having made this present,I had to
38 the electric lights and the music band I had intended for the wedding and the ladies in the house were
39 .But to me the wedding was all the
40 for the thought that in a distant land a long-lost father met again with his child.
| 小题1: | | A．loudly | B．proudly | C．seriously | D．firmly |
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| 小题2: | | A．work out | B．run out | C．hang out | D．stand out |
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| 小题4: | | A．would | B．should | C．must | D．could |
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| 小题5: | | A．concerned | B．frightened | C．puzzled | D．ashamed |
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| 小题6: | | A．insisted | B．doubted | C．announced | D．heard |
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| 小题7: | | A．escape | B．quarrel | C．communication | D．bargain |
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| 小题8: | | A．punished | B．admitted | C．dropped | D．sentenced |
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| 小题9: | | A．wedding | B．birthday | C．graduation | D．promotion |
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| 小题10: | | A．while | B．after | C．unless | D．when |
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| 小题11: | | A．nearly | B．actually | C．hardly | D．simply |
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| 小题13: | | A．caught | B．imagined | C．avoided | D．kept |
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| 小题14: | | A．jokes | B．comments | C．suggestions | D．requests |
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| 小题15: | | A．belief | B．impression | C．friendship | D．energy |
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| 小题16: | | A．reading | B．writing | C．telling | D．saying |
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| 小题17: | | A．fortune | B．treasure | C．support | D．comfort |
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| 小题18: | | A．put off | B．give up | C．turn to | D．care about |
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| 小题19: | | A．moved | B．delighted | C．worried | D．disappointed |
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| 小题20: | | A．clearer | B．easier | C．brighter | D．quieter |
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