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 The Enzian Art House in Florida was showing movies in the park Evening a few weeks before Christmas，they showed The Christmas Story and had a raffle(抽奖)with a girl’s bike as the prize．It was attractive with  colored streamers(飘带)，flowers，Butterflies，a fascinating bell，a11 designed to delight a five year old．But fifty year old 0f me won it!

    This led to a bit of a puzzle as I didn’t have．kids or grand-kids to give it to.

    1 wanted the bike to go to someone who didn’t have the opportunity to own such a wonderful thing．I contacted the shelter(where I occasionally volunteered in the kitchen)and while there was a big need for a sweet．Bike there was also the potential for it creating conflict．

     I sought else where until I found out about a couple in our church who had been going through hard times in their marriage because of drugs and a1coho·They walked to our church(they didn’t have a car)from a parking 1ot a mile away and they had a sweet little five-year-old daughter.

     On Christmas Eve 1 went to their parking lot．They had already left on foot to go to the candle lighting service．Their landlord was on the parking lot and when he heard that 1 wanted to leave the bike anonynously(匿名)he offered to open up their trailer(拖车式房屋)．There I saw a lone tree，so I put the bike behind it.0.

    It was a great moment for me and，I hope，a little bit of Christmas magic

 for the family and that little girl .

21·Why was the author puzzled when he got the prize7．

  didn’t have kids about five years old t0 offer the bike to．

  couldn’t find a proper way to keep it．

  C He couldn’t find the way to the shop．

  D．He couldn’t carry it home.

22·We Can learn from the third paragraph that children in the shelter______

n fight                    happy

C. aren’t taken care of           D．are eager for a bike

23．What made the couple’s  marriage hard?

    r fighting．     B Their poverty

    s and alcohol    D．Their unemployment．

24．What can we infer from the last paragraph?

  e there is a will，there is a way．

  B．Present rose to others with remaining fragrance at hand

  C ng without an aim is like sailing without a compass-

  D．Life was like a box of chocolates，you never know what you get．

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