My sister’s ten-year-old son came for a visit at the weekend one hot July. And I had to make him stay inside by joining him in a game. An hour later, I suggested that we relax a while. He slipped out of the room and I was catching a few moments of peace and quiet.
“Look, Alice,” he said happily as he ran over to the chair where I was having a rest. “I found a kite. Could we go outside and fly it?”
Looking out a nearby window, I noticed there was not a breeze (微风) at all. “I’m sorry, Tripper,” I said, sad to see his blue eyes. “The wind is not blowing today. The kite won’t fly.”
“ I think it’s windy enough. I can get it to fly.” He answered, as he hurried out of the back door. Up and down the yard he ran, pulling the kite with a small length of string (绳子). The plastic kite proudly had a picture of Batman. He ran as hard as his ten-year-old legs would carry him, looking back hopefully at the kite. After about ten minutes, he came back in.
I asked, “How did it go?” “Fine,” he said, not wanting to admit (承认) defeat. “I got it to fly some.” As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, “I guess I’ll have to wait for the wind.”
At that moment I heard another voice speak to my heart, “Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way instead of waiting for the wind.”
And the voice was right. We wait for the wind only after we have done all we can. We must learn how to depend on it in the first place！
【小题1】Alice played the game with the boy because_ .| A．she wanted him to stay in the room |
| B．she was too busy to go out with the boy |
| C．the boy hated the game very much |
| D．her sister told her to do such a thing |
| A．relax for a while with Alice |
| B．ask Alice to go out and fly a kite with him |
| C．jumped onto it and looked out of the window |
| D．draw a picture of Batman on a kite |
| A．Hot and windy. | B．Warm, without a cloud. | C．Hot, but no wind. | D．Wet and cold. |
| A．Because he was too tired to run in the yard. |
| B．Because he failed to fly a kite. |
| C．Because he made a kite fly successfully. |
| D．Because he found it was boring to fly a kite. |
| A．Every man has his taste. |
| B．Don’t cross a bridge until you come to it. |
| C．It is better to give than to receive. |
| D．Rome was not built in a day. |
