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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 supplies,
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
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B. receiving B. prepared B. hope B. settled down B. loss B. loved B. little B. first B. instantly B. independence B. caught up with B. few B. special B. guaranteed B. until B. gift B. took B. sympathy B. such B. till
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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
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D. exchanging D. expected D. accept D. showed off D. justice D. affected D. enough D. previous D. occasionally D. safety D. put up with D. each D. normal D. promised D. since D. reward D. cheered D. joy D. everybody D. from
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