“I wish you a good day, Uncle,” said Dete, as she walked towards him, “and I have brought you Tobias and Adelaide’s child. You will hardly recognize her, as you have never seen her since she was one year old.” Hearing that the old man asked curtly. “But what has the child to do with me up here?” Dete made answer, “The child is here to stay with you. I have done my duty for these four years, and I have to go because the family I had waited on asked me to go to Frankfurt. You are the next of kin (亲属) to the child.”
As she uttered her last words, Uncle looked at her and said to her in a commanding voice, “Get back, and do not let me see your face again.” Dete did not wait to be told twice. “Good-bye to you then, and to you too, Heidi,” she called.
As soon as Dete had disappeared, the old man went back to his bench. Heidi, meanwhile, was enjoying herself in her new surroundings.
“Come!” and the grandfather went before her towards the hut.
“Bring your clothes in with you,” he asked her as she was following. “I shan’t want them any more” was her prompt answer. The old man turned and looked searchingly at the child, whose dark eyes were sparkling in delighted anticipation of what she was going to see inside. “She is certainly not wanting wisdom,” he murmured to himself. “And why shall you not want them any more?” he asked aloud. “Because I want to go about like the goats with their thin light legs.” Heidi asked, “Where am I to sleep, grandfather?”
“Wherever you like,” he answered.
Heidi was delighted. In the corner near her grandfather’s bed she saw a short ladder against the wall; up she climbed and found herself in the hay loft. “I shall sleep up here, grandfather,” she called down to him, “It’s lovely, up here. Come up and see how lovely it is!”
“Oh, I know all about it,” he called up in answer.
In the middle of the night the old man got up. “The child will be frightened,” he murmured. He mounted the ladder and went and stood by the child’s bed. Outside the moonlight was falling through the round window straight on to Heidi’s bed. She lay under the heavy cover lid, her cheeks rosy with sleep, her head peacefully resting on her little round arm, and with a happy expression on her baby face as if dreaming of something pleasant. The old man stood looking down on the sleeping child until the moon disappeared behind the clouds and he could see no more, then he went back to bed.
—Excerpt from Heidi, written by Johanna Spyri
【小题1】Why did Dete leave Heidi with the old man?| A．Because Dete was the next of kin to Heidi. | B．Because Dete got a new job out of town. |
| C．Because Dete didn’t love Heidi any more. | D．Because Dete wanted to give him a surprise. |
| A．Heidi had the habit of unthinking. |
| B．The old man thought Heidi was wise, |
| C．Heidi got used to the life with the old man. |
| D．The old man was worried about Heidi’s health. |
| A．The new environment made Heidi feel very frightened. |
| B．The old man looked after Heidi through the whole night. |
| C．Heidi was an animal-lover and wanted to play with goats. |
| D．Heidi felt peaceful and delighted when living with the old man. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
