5.Which
is the best title for the passage?
A. What
a beautiful farm! B. Have a good time.
C.A
short holiday D. Henry and the farmer.
Passage
14
After
returning from her round trip, the angry woman stood outside the ticket office
of the station. “The railway owes me 12 pounds,” she said to Harry Jenks, the
young man working at the office.” You sold me a ticket for May 22nd, but there
was no ship from Jersey that night. So my
daughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me 12 pounds.”
Harry
was worried. He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the
office, Madam,” he said politely. “I’ll just check the Jersey
timetable for May 22nd.”
The
woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Harry
soon discovered. There was no sailing on May 22nd. How could he have made such
a careless mistake? He shouldn’t have sold her a ticket for that day. Wondering
what to do, he smiled at the child. “You look sun burnt,” he said to her. “Did
you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”
“Yes,”
she answered, shyly. “The beach was lovely. And I can swim too!”
“That’s
fine,” said Harry. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only
three…”
“I’m
four,” the child said proudly. “I’ll be four and a half.”
Harry
turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket, Madam,” he said. “But you didn’t
get one for your daughter, did you?”
“Er,
well…” the woman looked at the child. “I mean…she hasn’t started school yet,
she’s only four.”
“A
four-year-old child must have a ticket, Madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs …let me see… 13.50 pounds. The law is the
law, but since the mistake is mine….”
The
woman stood up, took the child’s hand and left the office.
