The Golden Window
金色窗户
A small boy lived on a farm that seemed so far away from everywhere. He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to start his chores and out again later to do the evening ones.
During sunset he would take a break and climb up on the fence so in the distance he could see the house with golden windows. He thought how great it would be to live there and his mind wouldwander to imagine the modern equipment and appliances that might exist in the house. “If they couldafford golden windows, then there must have other nice things.” He then promised himself, “Someday I will go there and see this wonderful place.”
Then one morning his father told him to stay at home and his father would do the chores. Knowing that this was his chance, he packed a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.
As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how he misjudged the distance and something else was very wrong. As he approached the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place with in bad need of a painting surrounded by a broken down fence. He went to the tattered screen door and knocked. A small boy very close to his age opened the door.
He asked him if he had seen the house with the golden windows. The boy said, “Sure, I know,” and invited him to sit on the porch. As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came where the sunset turned the windows in his home to gold.
译文
有一个小男孩住在一个农场，这个农场好像离所有的地方都很远。每天早上太远出来以前，他需要起床做家务，晚些时候再出来做一次晚上的杂物。
太阳升起时，他会休息一下，爬上篱笆，这样他就可以看到远处那座有金色窗户的房子。他认为住在那里是非常了不起的事儿，他常常想象着房子里的现代化设备和电器。“要是他们能装得起金色窗户，那肯定还有其他好东西。”随后，他向自己许诺说：“总有一天，我摇到那里去看看这个了不起的地方。”
后来有一天早上，父亲让他待在家里，自己要去做这些杂务。他知道这是一个机会，就带上一块三明治，穿过田野，朝那座有金色窗户的房子走去。
下午来临时，他开始意识到自己估计错了到那座房子的距离，其他事情也大相径庭。当走近那座房子时，他没有看到金色窗户，而是看到了一个急需粉刷、四周篱笆坏掉的地方。他走到那扇破门前，敲了敲。一个和他年纪相仿的男孩打开了门。
他问那个男孩是否见过有个金色窗户的房子。那男孩说：“我当然知道。”并请他坐在门廊上。他坐在哪里，回头向刚才自己走来的方向望去，只见落日把他的家染成了金色。
拓展训练
A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she 1 play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. 2 she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and 3 all day about how wonderful and exciting 4 must feel to live there.
At the age when she gained some 5 skill and sensibility(识别力), she 6 her mother for a bike ride ___7 the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, 8 her keeping close to the house and not 9 too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew 10 where she was heading! 11 the hill and across the valley, she rode to the 12 of the golden house.
13 she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path _14 _ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she 15 that all the windows were 16 and rather dirty.
So 17 and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She 18 , and all of a sudden she saw an amazing __19 . There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she _ 20 _ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her house.
【小题1】. A. might B. should C. would D. must
【小题2】. A. Unless B. Although C. Since D. But
【小题3】. A. dreamed B. worried C. asked D. shouted
【小题4】. A. this B. that C. it D. which
【小题5】. A. different B. scientific C. musical D. basic
【小题6】. A. begged B. blamed C. invited D. paid
【小题7】. A. inside B. outside C. through D. along
【小题8】. A. insisting on B. relying on C. arguing about D. wondering about
【小题9】. A. traveling B. running C. riding D. walking
【小题10】. A. madly B. rapidly C. exactly D. possibly
【小题11】. A. Over B. Down C. Around D. Beside
【小题12】. A. windows B. steps C. center D. gate
【小题13】. A. Until B. As C. While D. Because
【小题14】. A. getting B. introducing C. leading D. moving
【小题15】. A. felt B. learned C. concluded D. found
【小题16】. A. transported B. bright C. plain D. wide
【小题17】. A. anxious B. angry C. serious D. sad
【小题18】. A. turned around B. cheered up C. settled down D. dropped in
【小题19】. A. hill B. valley C. background D. sight
【小题20】. A. imagined B. decided C. realized D. Guessed
答案：CBACD ABACC BDBCD CDADC