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B．It has a wide range of prices.

C．It can replace the smart phones.

D．

It is popular among teenagers.

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(2013·郑州市二模，B)

It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house.

Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father

moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing out there？” I

called to him.

He looked up, smiling, “I'm making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just

about anything. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.

Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught up in the business of our new life,

I eventually forgot about his surprise.

Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番红花) throughout the front lawn—blue, yellow and my favorite pink, with

little faces moving up and down in the cold wind. I remembered the things Dad secretly

planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?

My father's crocuses bloomed (开花) each spring for the next five seasons, always

bringing the same assurance: Hard times are almost over. Hold on, keep going, and

light is coming soon.

Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms and the next spring there were

none. I missed the crocuses, so I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs.

But I never did. He died suddenly one October day. My family were in deep sorrow,

leaning on our faith.

On a spring afternoon four years later, I was driving back when I felt depressed.