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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