How old was I? I can’t remember. Maybe I was only 10. It was the first
16 without my father because he was away for something. He left me to fill that sad place in my mother’s heart. It was the Christmas when I stopped being a
17 and tried to play Father Christmas myself. I really wanted to make it happy and bright again. It was the Christmas of the
18 .
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, a nice
19 shop in our town’s little shopping mall. It was dark green. And it was a
20 , heavy, wool dress coat. Mom pulled it out from the rack(架) and held it up. “Long enough,” she said in a low voice and
21 .
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the mirror. She looked good on any clothes,
22 this coat suited her much better. She looked at the
23 , then hung the coat back on the rack, standing there once more to
24 Eighty-seven dollars. But I decided to buy it for her. As we moved on
25 the mall, I found some excuse to return and asked one of the Tobias ladies to
26 the coat.
I helped clean every yard(庭院) in our neighbourhood—some yards twice, and soon I got the coat. The store ladies helped me put it in their biggest
27 with bright blue paper and thick silver ribbon(絲帶). I don’t remember
28 I got it home, but I can still feel the wonderful
29 and pride that filled me. I would imagine the big space which the box would take up under our tree. Here it was—joy, peace and
30 —all in the box, waiting for Mom’s surprise.
| 小題1: | | A．Easter | B．Christmas | C．Halloween | D．Thanksgiving |
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| 小題2: | | A．child | B．son | C．student | D．teacher |
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| 小題3: | | A．tree | B．bag | C．coat | D．ribbon |
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| 小題4: | | A．children’s | B．women’s | C．girl’s | D．men’s |
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| 小題5: | | A．big | B．wide | C．thin | D．long |
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| 小題6: | | A．tried it on | B．put it on | C．kept it on | D．turned it on |
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| 小題7: | | A．though | B．or | C．for | D．and |
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| 小題8: | | A．price | B．design | C．color | D．material |
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| 小題9: | | A．taste | B．feel | C．sound | D．smell |
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| 小題10: | | A．through | B．over | C．past | D．across |
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| 小題11: | | A．sell | B．send | C．keep | D．wash |
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| 小題12: | | A．tank | B．basket | C．bag | D．box |
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| 小題13: | | A．how | B．why | C．whether | D．when |
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| 小題14: | | A．development | B．excitement | C．improvement | D．advertisement |
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| 小題15: | | A．courage | B．confidence | C．love | D．honesty |
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