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Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett's jeans and shirt full of burn
holes.
Tired and defeated, I __1__ to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had __2__. He
often got almost everything in the house out of __3__. Many windows in our house needed repair due
to his breaking __4__ to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare
to the emotional __5__ Brett had done to our once quiet home.
Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett
as __6__ as possible, but inside I was shouting, "I don't want him in my house another day, Lord! I just
can't __7__ him!" Having wiped my tears, I continued __8__ him as before.
When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall(少管所). After that, my husband and I
had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping__9___teens.
At the __10__ ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had __11__ the
most to him or her.
Brett spoke __12__ to his parents and then spoke to me, "You did so much. You were always there,
no matter __13__. My mom and dad, I am their kid. But you, __14__ troubled enough by me, always
__15__ me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it."
__16__, I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me__17__.
At that moment, tears__18__in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for__19__.
Although I had struggled with silent__20__toward my stepson, Brett had seen only my actions. Love is
action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our lives, but we can love them.

(     )1. A. sat         (     )2. A. lost       (     )3. A. order       (     )4. A. off         (     )5. A. pain       (     )6. A. patiently   (     )7. A. forgive     (     )8. A. feeding     (     )9. A. lazy       (     )10. A. opening   (     )11. A. afforded   (     )12. A. lovingly   (     )13. A. where     (     )14. A. although   (     )15. A. cost       (     )16. A. Astonished (     )17. A. surely     (     )18. A. fell       (     )19. A. pity       (     )20. A. love

B. bent             B. ruined           B. date             B. in               B. injury           B. willingly       B. stand           B. pardoning       B. disappointing   B. official         B. meant           B. sadly           B. how             B. unless           B. lent             B. Puzzled         B. tightly         B. flowed           B. luck             B. anxiety

C. sank       C. torn       C. trouble     C. up         C. harm       C. strictly   C. educate     C. comforting C. troublesome C. graduation C. supplied   C. proudly     C. who         C. because     C. showed     C. Encouraged C. roughly     C. moved       C. happiness   C. care

D. dropped     D. broken       D. danger       D. away         D. damage       D. rudely       D. control     D. parenting   D. careless     D. victory     D. owed         D. nervously   D. what         D. when         D. taught       D. Interested   D. fiercely     D. gathered     D. success     D. anger

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