Mrs. Mueller was our next-door neighbor when my sister and I were growing up. She was alone, gentle and _________.
Early one December, Mrs. Mueller went into the hospital. Laurel and I were busy making Christmas _________. As Mrs. Mueller always treated us to snacks, we pondered what to make for her. It _________ on us that she would be coming home a few days before Christmas to an empty house with no holiday decorations. We lit upon the idea of decorating a small _________.
I was in Miss Keefe’s sixth grade class, and we had trimmed a small tree with paper-link chains and ornaments (装饰物) we’d made in art class. It was _________. Miss Keefe said there would be a drawing for the tree. We’d each write our _________ on a piece of paper and put it through a hole in a shoebox. On the last day of school before vacation, she’d _________ a name from the box, and that student could take home the tree.
As I put my folded piece of paper into the box, I _________ to Miss Keefe that I really hoped I’d win the tree because I wanted to _________ it to our neighbor.
It was time for the drawing. I __________ held my breath as she took the lid off the shoebox, swirled her hand around in the box of folded pieces of paper, and drew one out. She __________ the paper and proclaimed, “Holly Wheeler has won the tree.”
The next day, when Mrs. Mueller came home, she saw the tree. First, there was a look of __________.
Then, a sweet smile appeared, and tears filled her eyes. She turned to us and softly said, “Thank you.”
Many years later it __________ my mind that we might have had more __________ with our scheme than we realized. While Miss Keefe had announced my name, she never showed anyone what was __________ on the piece of paper.
【小题1】A.ambitious | B.conventional | C.energetic | D.kind-hearted |
【小题2】A.contribution | B.sponsor | C.gifts | D.commercial |
【小题3】A.focused | B.dawned | C.concentrated | D.impressed |
【小题4】A.tree | B.box | C.room | D.flower |
【小题5】A.respective | B.innocent | C.independent | D.brilliant |
【小题6】A.decoration | B.name | C.wish | D.birthday |
【小题7】A.force | B.remove | C.draw | D.dismiss |
【小题8】A.announced | B.whispered | C.acknowledged | D.predicted |
【小题9】A.present | B.donate | C.sacrifice | D.release |
【小题10】A.previously | B.initially | C.nervously | D.violently |
【小题11】A.unfolded | B.observed | C.arrested | D.grabbed |
【小题12】A.expectation | B.relief | C.embarrassment | D.astonishment |
【小题13】A.occurred to | B.came to | C.submitted to | D.stuck to |
【小题14】A.standard | B.assistance | C.harmony | D.preference |
【小题15】A.suspected | B.experienced | C.described | D.written |