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Love in a Box
When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment.On a Friday night I
__
1__at the dinner table, "My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our Valentines
(情人节) on Monday."
Mother said
, "We'll see", and she continued eating.
What did "We'll see" mean?I had to have that box__
2__my second grade Valentine's Day would be
a disaster.Maybe they didn't love me enough to help me with my__
3__.
All Saturday I waited__
4__and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased, but I__
5__an enquiry
about the box might__
6__anger or loud voice, for in my house children only ask once.More than that
__
7__trouble.
Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen.The table was covered with colorful
__
8__of different kinds.A(n)__
9__shoebox rested on top of it.__
10__flooded through me when
Daddy said, "Let's get started__
11__your project."
In the next hour my father__
12__the
shoebox into an impressive valentine box.Colorful paper
covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts__
13__to what I considered all the right places.He sang
while he worked.When he finished, he was so delighted that a__
14__smile spread over his face."What
do you think of that?" he asked.
I answered him with a hug.
But inside, __
15__danced all the way to my heart.It was the first time that my father devoted so
much__
16__to me, for his world consisted of work only.
The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards, and presents into the valentine boxes.
Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal time__
17__.
On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to__
18__.The love that filled it meant
more to me than all inside.
The valentine box became a symbol of his love that__
19__through decades of other Valentine's
Days.He gave me other gifts through the years, but none__
20__compared with the love I felt within the
limits of the old, empty shoebox.
( )1. A. announced ( )2. A. and ( )3. A. design ( )4. A. sadly ( )5. A. found ( )6. A. start ( )7. A. invited ( )8. A. boxes ( )9. A. new ( )10. A. Relaxation ( )11. A. by ( )12. A. folded ( )13. A. joined ( )14. A. slight ( )15. A. joy ( )16. A. money ( )17. A. reached ( )18. A. accept ( )19. A. carried ( )20. A. ever |
B. appeared B. however B. plan B. anxiously B. realized B. cause B. took B. gifts B. big B. Relief B. at B. packed B. attached B. brief B. fun B. time B. set B. respect B. kept B. even |
C. served C. or C. idea C. disappointedly C. knew C. mark C. saved C. paper C. attractive C. Cheer C. in C. changed C. linked C. broad C. interest C. support C. spent C. admire C. spread C. yet |
D. sat D. so D. project D. patiently D. imagined D. produce D. had D. food D. empty D. Calm D. on D. pressed D. connected D. confident D. amusement D. hope D. came D. recognize D. lasted D. still |