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     OBERLIN, Kansas (AP)-A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed
in 1914, but its journey was much slower than Christmas. It has just arrived in northwest Kansas recently.
     The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from
her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.
     "It's a mystery where it spent most of the last century," Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said.
     "It's surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone has found it, I don't know."
     Ethel Martin has passed away, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative. That's
how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's, sister-in-law. She said she believed the card
had been found somewhere in Illinois.
     "That's all we-know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."
     "The card was placed inside another envelope with a modern postage stamp for the trip to Oberlin-the one
cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it," Martin said.
     "We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."
1. Who was supposed to have received the postcard?
A. Bernice Martin.
B. Ethel Martin.
C. Santa Claus.
D. Steve Schultz.
2. What seems quite mysterious is that _____.
A. how it was sent to a relative
B. the postcard was still in shape
C. where the old postcard was kept
D. the card was in a modern envelope
3. "the 93-year-old relic" refers to _____.
A. the Christmas card
B. an ancient cultural relic in Illinois
C. an envelope with modern postage
D. a house passed down by Ethel Martin
4. The best title of the passage would be _____.
A. A Special Christmas Card
B. Too Late Christmas Greetings
C. The Story of a Christmas Card
D. A Christmas Card Arrives Almost a Century Late
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1.Light pollution usually occurs ________.

[  ]

A.in cities

B.in the country

C.in wild areas

D.in developing countries

2.People can not see the stars in the sky because of ________.

[  ]

A.air pollution
B.water pollution
C.light pollution
D.gas pollution

3.The victim(受害者) affected by the light pollution is ________.

[  ]

A.children
B.grown-ups
C.students
D.observatories

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[  ]

A.the United States
B.Canada
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