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| I will never forget the year when I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 1 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money in our family. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the other kids asked what I had 2 ?" Just when I started to 3 that there would no Christmas that year, three women 4 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of 5 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed (尴尬) when I returned to school. I wasn't 6 . Somebody had thought me important 7 to bring me a gift. Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I could try to make my 8 Christmas in the new house special and memorable, I 9 remembered the women's visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of 10 for as many children as I could possibly reach. So I 11 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to prepare. Then about 125 orphans (孤儿) were invited at our Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, 12 with a child's name. We wanted all of them to know their gifts were 13 . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I 14 them that they couldn't open their presents 15 every child had got his. Finally the 16 , which they had been so eagerly waiting for, came as I called out, "One, two, three. Open your presents!" As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 17 up the whole house, where The atmosphere of 18 was so obvious, and 19 wasn't just about toys. It was a feeling - "I wasn't forgotten", which I have been so familiar 20 that very Christmas long ago when the women came to visit us. Being concerned matters much for any child. | |||
| ( )1. A. sending ( )2. A. found ( )3. A. admire ( )4. A. broke in ( )5. A. relief ( )6. A. remembered ( )7. A. highly ( )8. A. present ( )9. A. hardly ( )10. A. strength ( )11. A. kept up with ( )12. A. none ( )13. A. fine ( )14. A. reminded ( )15. A. after ( )16. A. chance ( )17. A. lit ( )18. A. peace ( )19. A. it ( )20. A. by |
B. receiving B. prepared B. hope B. settled down B. loss B. loved B. little B. first B. immediately B. independence B. caught up with B. few B. special B. insisted B. until B. gift B. took B. pity B. such B. till |
C. making C. got C. suggest C. turned up C. achievement C. forgotten C. poorly C. recent C. regularly C. importance C. came up with C. some C. helpful C. proved C. when C. moment C. burned C. calmness C. something C. for |
D. exchanging D. expected D. accept D. turned off D. sadness D. affected D. enough D. former D. sometimes D. safety D. put up with D. each D. original D. allowed D. since D. reward D. cheered D. joy D. everybody D. since |