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I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be  1 
Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the
other kids asked what I'd  2  ?" Just when I started to  3  that there would not be a 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 when I returned to school. I wasn't  6  . Somebody
had thought  7  of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my  8  
Christmas there 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 help. We gathered about 125 orphans
(孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and
school suppliers, 12 with a child's name. We wanted all of them to know they 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 come forward. Finally the 16 they had been 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 room. The 18 in the room was obvious, and 19 wasn't just about toys. It was a feeling-the feeling
I knew 20 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn't forgotten. Somebody
thought of me. I matter.

(     )1. A. sending          (     )2. A. found            (     )3. A. doubt            (     )4. A. broke in         (     )5. A. relief           (     )6. A. blamed           (     )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. atmosphere       (     )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. suggested         B. until             B. gift              B. took              B. sympathy  (同情)     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. convinced    C. when         C. moment       C. burned       C. calmness     C. something    C. for

D. exchanging    D. expected      D. accept        D. showed off    D. disappointment         D. affected      D. enough        D. previous      D. occasionally  D. safety        D. put up with   D. each          D. normal        D. prom ised     D. since         D. reward        D. cheered       D. joy           D. everybody     D. from

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