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By the third year of teaching I'd begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday and less
for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made me__
1__. I just
had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
The morning bell rang. I walked__
2__through the cold into the overly heated school building. Twenty
two smiling faces__
3__me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to __
4__ their smiles. Back into the
classroom, they__
5__, comparing plans for the__
6__. I had to remove one student from each arm__
7__
I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my roll book(点名册) my desk
was covered with__
8__and gifts followed by a__
9__of "Merry Christmas" wishes.
"Oh, thank you," I must have
10 a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except my
11
mood(情绪). It was kind of them to
12 me. After a while, I heard a small nervous
13 say my name. I
looked up to see Brandon standing
14 by my desk, holding a small, round gift. "This is for you."
"Thank you, Sweetheart." I laid it on my desk with the others."Um, could you
15 it now?"
I gently tore at the paper and tape. "
16 ," he said, "it's breakable." Slowly I opened a small, green
Christmas tree ornament(装饰物), complete with a hook already
17 . It dawned on me what he had
done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep my
18 back.
Later that day, I sat
19 the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that he had
searched for something to give me? Now every year as I
20 pull a green Christmas ball from my
ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
( )1. A. excited ( )2. A. eagerly ( )3. A. watched ( )4. A. return ( )5. A. calmed ( )6. A. study ( )7. A. before ( )8. A. letters ( )9. A. knowledge ( )10. A. confirmed ( )11. A. pleased ( )12. A. talk about ( )13. A. call ( )14. A. shyly ( )15. A. classify ( )16. A. Careful ( )17. A. exposed ( )18. A. trees ( )19. A. looking into ( )20. A. anxiously |
B. tired B. aimlessly B. greeted B. forget B. settled B. weekend B. when B. books B. collection B. assessed B. low B. think of B. sound B. bravely B. collect B. Dangerous B. adapted B. hooks B. turning over B. hurriedly |
C. amazed C. gently C. delighted C. ignore C. chatted C. vacation C. after C. chalks C. series C. responded C. thrilled C. turn to C. shout C. rudely C. open C. Patient C. adjusted C. gifts C. giving away C. delicately |
D. relaxed D. heavily D. warned D. refuse D. argued D. lesson D. because D. cards D. bunch D. explained D. angry D. connect with D. voice D. sadly D. arrange D. Hasty D. attached D. tears D. packing up D. casually |