第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分35分) 第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分） 阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to die, or so we thought. We bought some lovely dolls, and a doll house. Then, much to our surprise on December 23rd, she said that she “ really wanted a bike more than anything else”. It was just too late, with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last minute gifts, to take the time to select the “right bike” for our little girl. It was Christmas Eve around 9:00 pm. Almie and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, lay comfortably in their beds. Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child. “What if I make a little bicycle out of clay（黏土）and write a note that she could trade the clay model for a real bike” her dad asked. “This is an expensive item and she is ‘such a big girl,’ it would be much better for her to pick it out.” So he spent the next four hours painstakingly （尽心地） working with clay to make a tiny bike． On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud. “Does this mean that I trade this bike that Daddy m