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Sometimes we think that we would be happy if all our dreams come true. However, it’s the process of achieving our goals and it’s the road towards our dreams that enriches us and makes us happy.
There was a little, but always cranky girl. Everything was bad for her. There weren’t enough toys or the gifts she was getting were wrong. She wished to meet an enchantress(女巫)that would tum her life a fairy tale.
One day an enchantress came to the little girl and said that she would give her the fulfilment of one wish every day. The girl became happy: now all her dreams would come true. She thanked the kind enchantress and ran home.
From that day she was waiting for every morning with joy and enthusiasm: because one more dream would come true for her. The days passed, the dreams came true... But soon the little girl realized that fulfilment of the wishes did not give her joy and happiness which she hoped for. Many wishes brought her disappointment, and some even a pain. Almost every dream was an empty little girl’s caprice(任性). Being satisfied, she suddenly realized that she did not want this.
The girl was getting sadder and sadder day by day, and wish-fulfilment did not bring any joy to her. Soon she started to fear her own dreams.
So the girl went to the kind enchantress and asked her to take her terrible gift back. She was afraid to live, afraid to wake up every day, waiting for a coming execution (完成) of another wish. Crying, she asked an enchantress to fulfil only one her dream: to live as she lived before and enjoy life.
Kind enchantress had mercy upon the little girl. She waved her magic wand and disappeared. The girl ran home. She was happy, because she knew that now she would painstakingly seek for her one big cherished dream, not wasting time with short-term, in fact, quite unnecessary whims.
21. Why wasn’t the girl happy at the very beginning?
A. Because she didn’t have good toys and gifts.
B. Because she was afraid to live or wake up every day.
C. Because she was not satisfied with everything around her.
D. Because she hadn’t met an enchantress that would change her life.
22. What does “this” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Every dream was an empty girl’s caprice.
B. Her wishes were fulfilled one by one as time went by.
C. She could enjoy her life and chase her dream freely.
D. The fulfilment of the wishes didn’t give her joy and happiness.
23. According to the passage, we’ll be happy if we
A. meet a kind enchantress
B. realize all our small dreams
C. live an extraordinary life and enjoy it
D. work hard for one precious dream
