There was a little, but always strange girl. Everything was bad for her. She wished to meet an enchantress (女巫) that would turn her life a _______ tale.

One day an enchantress came and said that one of her wishes would _______. The girl became very happy at first, but then she started to think that she had a lot of wishes and all of them were _______ for her. She could not _______ just one. Then the _______ enchantress said that she would help her realize one wish every day. The girl became _______—now all her dreams will become realities.

From that day on, she was waiting every morning with joy and _______. Then as days passed, the dreams became real ones... But soon the little girl realized that _______ of the wishes didn’t give her joy and happiness which she _______ for. Many wishes brought her disappointment, and some __________ a pain. Almost every dream was an empty little girl’s caprice (任性). Though being __________, she suddenly found that she did not __________ this. Soon she started to __________ dreams. She was afraid to __________ every day, waiting for the realization of another wish. Crying, she asked the enchantress to __________ only one her dream-to live as she lived __________ and enjoy life.

The good enchantress had __________ upon the little girl. She waved her magic wand and disappeared. The girl was happy __________ she knew that now she would carefully seek for her one big __________ dream, not wasting time with short-term, __________, quite unnecessary wishes.

The next day would be Christmas. Jim was shopping for a gift for his wife Della. With an income of twenty dollars per week, life was really _________ for the couple, but Jim wanted to buy a perfect gift for Della. He thought of the beautiful set of _________ Della had wanted for so long in one of the shop windows on Broadway. Tomorrow, Jim decided, he was going to make Della’s dream come true.

Jim and Della _________ two things they were both proud of. One was Jim’s gold watch, and the other was Della’s beautiful _________. Jim looked at the gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. _________, Jim knew what he had to do: he would sell his watch.

That afternoon, Jim _________ the watch, went to the shop for the combs (发插) and returned home with a package in his pocket. He was sure that they would be the most wonderful gift for Della. He was _________ about what Della was going to think when she saw the gift the next day.

The door opened and Della walked in. Jim looked at her with a puzzled _________. “Jim,” Della cried, “don’t look at me that way. I sold my hair to buy you a watch chain. Give me your watch. Let me see how it looks on it.”

Jim smiled. “Della,” he said, “I sold my watch to buy you a gift.” Jim _________ the package from his pocket and __________ it on the table. Della opened it. There lay the set of combs that she had always wanted. Now they were hers, but her hair was gone.

My mother has just recovered(康复) from a serious illness. She is very_________in a wheelchair, but still wants to go without one! She_________every day to stay mobile and walk. Recently she got two walking sticks and we started to go on_________walks together in a forest down the road.

Today the_________was nice, so we planned to stay outside a little longer. We_________to the lake near our house, and she said she wanted to swim in the lake. I was very_________because I never saw her in any kind of water before! We used to have holidays at the Baltic sea, but she always stayed on the_________.

So we were here and I swam around. When I_________, I saw her knee deep in the water! I swam back _______. However, she went in further and further and wore a big__________on her face. And then she took the last step and just swam!

It was less than ten seconds because her legs started to shake. I helped her back and she laughed heartily.

She told me that this was the__________she often visited when she was a(n)__________. Her mother would take her here nearly every weekend in summer to swim. She could even__________the last time she swam.

I was so glad for her. She even__________to walk back to the car without her__________!