Each spring brings a new wildflower blooming
in the fields along the highway I travel daily to work.
There is one particular
blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in
the morning hours. The afternoon sun is too warm for it. Every day each year
for about two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers.
This spring, I started a
wildflower garden in my yard. I can look out of the kitchen window while doing
the dishes and see the flowers. I've often thought that those lovely blue
flowers from the fields would look great in that bed alongside other
wildflowers.
Every day I drove past the flowers, thinking,
"I'll stop on my way home and dig them." "Gee, I don't want to
get my good clothes dirty…" Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig
them. My husband even gave me a tool one year for that expressed purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was
saddened to see that the highway department had cleared up the fields and the
pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, "Way to go, you waited
too long. You should have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring.
"
A week ago we were shocked and saddened to
learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a cancer. She is 20 years older than my
husband and unfortunately, because of age and distance, we haven't been as
close as we all would have liked.
I couldn't help but see
the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my
husband's sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to
plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us.
And yes, if I see the blue
flowers again, I'm sure I'll stop and transplant them to my wildflower garden.
1.How long might the blue flower bloom in
spring?
A. About two
weeks.
B. The whole season.
C. About one
week.
D. The whole day.
2.Where did the writer want to transplant the
flowers?
A. Across the fields.
B. Along the highway.
C. In the
garden.
D. Outside the yard.
3.Which of the following is NOT true about
the writer's sister-in-law?
A. She is seriously
ill.
B. She is twenty years old.
C. She lives far away from the
writer.
D. She is not in close touch with the writer.
4.What does the writer want to tell us?
A. Value now and don't
lose chances.
B. Visit our relatives
only after they get ill.
C. Refresh our wonderful
moments every year.
D. Plant flowers and don't
enjoy them in the field.