Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage. 

 

1 According to this monologue, we know that the girl’s sisters ________.

A) totally forgot their mother’s birthday

B) brought birthday presents to their mother

C) prepared a birthday picnic for their mother

D) reminded the girl of their mother’s birthday

 

2 The girl said that ________.

A) she felt bad for forgetting her mother’s birthday

B) she had saved some money for her mother’ birthday

C) she spent much time preparing a birthday present for her mother

D) she prepared the picnic as the birthday present for her mother

 

3.  The girl went to the store ________.

A) to buy some plastic paper

B) to buy herself a piggy bank

C) to buy typewriter correction paper

D) to buy her mother a birthday present

 

4.  The cashier at the store ________. 

A) paid for the girl’s present

B) felt sympathetic towards the girl 

C) asked the girl to buy a plastic heart

D) helped the girl by paying for the difference

 

5. The girl always remembers the heart she gave her mother because ________. 

A) it was the present her mother longed for

B) it was associated with some special memory

C) it was handmade by herself for her mother 

D) it was the most expensive present she ever got 

The girl felt    (1)     when her sisters came because she had forgotten that it was         (2)         . She did not         (3)       to know that, so she quickly took one dollar—the only money she had—from her piggy bank. She was sure that with this one dollar she could buy her mother a present that would show her mother                (4)             , but when she went into a shop she found that one dollar          (5)           as much as she thought it would. She finally chose a plastic heart that was        (6)         cents. When she went to the cashier to make the payment, she was told that it cost more than a dollar because of the sales tax. She was so disappointed and had to          (7)         . Then the cashier put some of her own pennies into the        (8)       and gave her the heart in a bag. When the girl’s mother saw the present, she exclaimed, “           (9)             !” and she then put the little girl on      (10)    and told her that she loved the heart and the girl.