My husband Mike hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___
36___, but the commercial aspects (方面) of it. Knowing he felt this __
__37__, I decided one year to
__38__the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something __
39_just for Mike. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was___
_40__at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match_
__41____a team sponsored(資助) by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so__
__42___that shoestrings(鞋帶) seemed to be the only thing holding them together,__
_43_____our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was__
_44___to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet(頭盔) designed to_
__45____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not___
_46___ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team __
__47__up from the mat(墊子), they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit__
_48____.
Mike, seated beside me, shook his head__
_49___, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential(潛力), but__
_50___like this could take the heart right out of them.” Mike loved_
_51____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the __
52____for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _
__53____some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his_
___54___from me. His smile was the
____55___ thing about Christmas that year.
小題1: | A.the gift | B.a(chǎn)n envelope | C.the wrestling | D.Christmas |
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小題3: | A.buy | B.a(chǎn)void | C.wear | D.give |
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小題4: | A.beautiful | B.expensive | C.special | D.new |
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小題5: | A.wrestling | B.weightlifting | C.shooting | D.boxing |
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小題6: | A.a(chǎn)t | B.a(chǎn)gainst | C.for | D.on |
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小題7: | A.big | B.small | C.worn | D.cheap |
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小題8: | A.because | B.if | C.so | D.while |
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小題9: | A.frightened | B.disappointed | C.pleased | D.surprised |
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小題10: | A.cover | B.surround | C.protect | D.hide |
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小題11: | A.carry | B.a(chǎn)fford | C.design | D.expect |
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小題12: | A.got | B.dressed | C.turned | D.cheered |
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小題13: | A.defeat | B.evidence | C.charge | D.mistake |
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小題14: | A.gently | B.sadly | C.nervously | D.gladly |
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小題15: | A.running | B.winning | C.losing | D.shaking |
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小題16: | A.workmates | B.parents | C.friends | D.kids |
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小題17: | A.invitation | B.idea | C.care | D.money |
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小題18: | A.return | B.sold | C.bought | D.left |
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小題19: | A.gift | B.warning | C.praise | D.love |
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小題20: | A.brightest | B.funniest | C.ugliest | D.darkest |
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