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My husband Jack hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___16___, but the commercial aspects of it. Knowing he felt this ______17___, I decided one year to___18___the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something _____19__just for Jack. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was______20______at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match____21_____a team sponsored by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so_______22_____that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together,____23______our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was_____24_____to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet designed to____25_____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not_____26_____ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ______27_____up from the mat, they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit______28______.
Jack, seated beside me, shook his head_____29_____, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but______30_____like this could take the heart right out of them.” Jack loved_____31_____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the ____32______for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _____33______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 Jack what I had done and that this was his_______34_____from me. His smile was the_______35______ thing about Christmas that year.
小题1: | A.the gift | B.an envelope | C.the wrestling | D.Christmas | |
小题2: | A.way | B.joy | C.music | D.fear | |
小题3: | A.buy | B.wear | C.avoid | D.give | |
小题4: | A.beautiful | B.expensive | C.new | D.special | |
小题5: | A.wrestling | B.weightlifting | C.shooting | D.boxing | |
小题6: | A.at | B.against | C.for | D.on | |
小题7: | A.big | B.small | C.worn | D.cheap | |
小题8: | A.because | B.if | C.while | D.so | |
小题9: | A.frightened | B.disappointed | C.pleased | D.surprised | |
小题10: | A.cover | B.surround | C.hide | D.protect | |
小题11: | A.carry | B.afford | C.design | D.expect | |
小题12: | A.dressed | B.got | C.turned | D.cheered | |
小题13: | A.defeat | B.evidence | C.charge | D.mistake | |
小题14: | A.gently | B.sadly | C.nervously | D.gladly | |
小题15: | A.running | B.winning | C.losing | D.shaking | |