My husband Mike hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___
36___, but the commercial aspects (方面) of it. Knowing he felt this __
__37__, I decided one year to
__38__the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something __
39_just for Mike. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was___
_40__at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match_
__41____a team sponsored（资助） by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so__
__42___that shoestrings(鞋带) seemed to be the only thing holding them together,__
_43_____our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was__
_44___to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet(头盔) designed to_
__45____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not___
_46___ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team __
__47__up from the mat(垫子), they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit__
_48____.
Mike, seated beside me, shook his head__
_49___, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential(潜力), but__
_50___like this could take the heart right out of them.” Mike loved_
_51____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the __
52____for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _
__53____some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his_
___54___from me. His smile was the
____55___ thing about Christmas that year.
| 小题1: | | A．the gift | B．an envelope | C．the wrestling | D．Christmas |
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| 小题3: | | A．buy | B．avoid | C．wear | D．give |
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| 小题4: | | A．beautiful | B．expensive | C．special | D．new |
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| 小题5: | | A．wrestling | B．weightlifting | C．shooting | D．boxing |
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| 小题7: | | A．big | B．small | C．worn | D．cheap |
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| 小题8: | | A．because | B．if | C．so | D．while |
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| 小题9: | | A．frightened | B．disappointed | C．pleased | D．surprised |
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| 小题10: | | A．cover | B．surround | C．protect | D．hide |
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| 小题11: | | A．carry | B．afford | C．design | D．expect |
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| 小题12: | | A．got | B．dressed | C．turned | D．cheered |
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| 小题13: | | A．defeat | B．evidence | C．charge | D．mistake |
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| 小题14: | | A．gently | B．sadly | C．nervously | D．gladly |
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| 小题15: | | A．running | B．winning | C．losing | D．shaking |
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| 小题16: | | A．workmates | B．parents | C．friends | D．kids |
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| 小题17: | | A．invitation | B．idea | C．care | D．money |
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| 小题18: | | A．return | B．sold | C．bought | D．left |
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| 小题19: | | A．gift | B．warning | C．praise | D．love |
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| 小题20: | | A．brightest | B．funniest | C．ugliest | D．darkest |
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