There at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, my l4-year-old son, John, and I noticed the coat. While the other coats drooped (低垂), this one looked as if it were
41 itself up. The coat was beautifully made, with a Fifth Avenue label and an
42 price of $28, which was popular just then with
43 , but could cost several hundred dollars new. John tried it on and the
44 was perfect.
John
45 the coat to school the next day and came home with a big smile. “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said,
46 folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a
47 came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and
48 discussion replaced fierce argument. He became more mannerly and
49 , eager to please. He would generously lend his younger brother his tapes and lecture him
50 his behavior. When I mentioned this
51 to his teacher and wondered what caused the changes, she said laughing. “It
52 be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned
53 but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran
54 a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly,
55 John’s new height, appreciating the cut of his coat and holding out his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never
56 a person’s clothes for the real person within them.
57 , there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for
58 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.
For John, it is a time when it is as easy to try on different
59 to life as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape
60 all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.
| 小题1: | | A．turning | B．holding | C．showing | D．hanging |
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| 小题2: | | A．unreasonable | B．unbearable | C．unbelievable | D．unfair |
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| 小题3: | | A．teenagers | B．adults | C．women | D．men |
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| 小题4: | | A．color | B．price | C．style | D．fit |
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| 小题5: | | A．sent | B．carried | C．brought | D．wore |
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| 小题6: | | A．casually | B．comfortably | C．carefully | D．quickly |
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| 小题7: | | A．happiness | B．change | C．smile | D．matter |
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| 小题8: | | A．reasoned | B．heated | C．wild | D．strong |
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| 小题9: | | A．considerate | B．handsome | C．hopeful | D．curious |
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| 小题11: | | A．incident | B．accident | C．affair | D．event |
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| 小题12: | | A．can | B．must | C．will | D．should |
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| 小题14: | | A．down | B．with | C．into | D．after |
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| 小题15: | | A．looking up at | B．looking down on | | C．putting up with | D．coming up with |
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| 小题16: | | A．change | B．mistake | C．trade | D．turn |
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| 小题17: | | A．However | B．Moreover | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题18: | | A．attaching | B．joining | C．relating | D．matching |
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| 小题19: | | A．mean | B．methods | C．approaches | D．measures |
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