“ELSA, IT’S YOU!” It was the four-year-old’s surprise birthday party, and her favorite Disney character, Elsa from Frozen, had arrived. The two_______ began to sing the movie’s big song, “Let It Go,” and were soon joined by Tinker Bell and four other fairy-tale princesses: Anna, Ariel, Jasmine, and Snow White. You would swear you were_______at the most magical place on earth.
But this wasn’t Disney World. It was the cancer ward at a hospital on Long Island in New York. And the princesses were college students who_______ for A Moment of Magic, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to_______ the spirits of sick children.
It all began once upon a time with a family movie night featuring Frozen. Kylee McGrane, now 23, noticed that she and Elsa had_______blond hair and big blue eyes. McGrane and her friend Maggie had an idea—dressing up as Disney princesses and_______ little cancer patients.
In 2015, after they_______ $2,000 on a GoFundMe page to pay for costumes and travel_______, McGrane and McAndrew landed their first live performance, at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. They dressed as Elsa and her sister, Anna, to the screaming delight of the girls and shy_______ from the boys. They spent nearly three hours singing songs, taking pictures, and traveling from one________to the next until they had visited and chatted with every one of the 50 children. “To see the kids believe in me, my character ... It was life________ ” says McGrane.
They have a__________ kingdom of fans. Shara Moskowitz from New Jersey says that her seven-year-old daughter, Avery, still________almost every day by phone or text to the ________she met nearly two years ago at her birthday party. Avery was receiving treatment for a neuroblastoma. “My daughter found something that she really needed to________”, says Moskowitz, “These girls gave her that moment of imagination, freedom, and happiness of dreaming.”
【小题1】A.calmly | B.cheerfully | C.hurriedly | D.immediately |
【小题2】A.wishing | B.dreaming | C.celebrating | D.promising |
【小题3】A.sign | B.volunteer | C.advertise | D.research |
【小题4】A.lift | B.show | C.admire | D.follow |
【小题5】A.ordinary | B.matching | C.different | D.shocking |
【小题6】A.visiting | B.treating | C.studying | D.calling |
【小题7】A.saved | B.spent | C.raised | D.donated |
【小题8】A.services | B.expenses | C.programs | D.destinations |
【小题9】A.smiles | B.looks | C.moods | D.words |
【小题10】A.movie | B.hospital | C.bedside | D.character |
【小题11】A.revival | B.beating | C.shelter | D.changing |
【小题12】A.growing | B.different | C.surviving | D.independent |
【小题13】A.talks | B.issues | C.protests | D.complains |
【小题14】A.doctors | B.strangers | C.patients | D.princesses |
【小题15】A.refer to | B.connect to | C.apply for | D.suffer from |