“Do you think we'll win?” ten-year-old Tyrus Lucas asked his mother 1 he wrote his name on the entry(参赛作品)to Cartoon Network’s toy sweepstakes.
“We can 2 ,”said his mother, a divorced mother who worked as a teacher and struggled to 3 her kids.She didn’t have much cash for 4 .A week later the phone rang.“Your son won our drawing!” a woman 5
“Great,” cried his mother,“Which 6 did he win?”
“All of them.A thousand toy!”
The next Saturday when the doorbell of their home rang, Tyrus, not 7 the surprise, opened the door and his face 8 up.“Mum,”he cried.“Cartoon Network is here?”
So were dozens of 9 kids who had run over to the cartoon-covered truck.They jumped 10 as hundreds of toys tumbled from the truck's back doors.
Tyrus thought he could 11 his whole room with them.But as he looked at the children around him, he 12 .The others in their working-class neighborhood didn’t have 13 either.
“Here,”he said, 14 a doll to a little girl.Then he handed a boy a Lite Brite.“Take 15 you want,” Tyrus told the kids-and they did, 16 him over and over.
Tyrus kept several games, but he wasn't done giving.“Why don't we give some to your 17 , Mom?” he asked.They 18 almost l00 toys to the elementary school where she worked.“The first thing my son thought of was to 19 ,”his mother says, beaming.“I’m so 20 of him.”
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though
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as
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as long as
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so that
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guess
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ask
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wait
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try
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support
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promise
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treat
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consider
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drawings
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extras
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food
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contests
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declared
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explained
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celebrated
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praised
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prize
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pay
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toy
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wealth
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seeing
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helping
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knowing
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enjoying
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lighted
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looked
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turned
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set
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attractive
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warm
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helpful
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excited
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off
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out
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clown
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up and down
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join
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fill
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teach
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look
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worried
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stopped
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laughed
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examined
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much
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them
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little
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qualities
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showing
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moving
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handing
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driving
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wherever
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however
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whenever
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whatever
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troubling
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disturbing
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reminding
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thanking
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school
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friends
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students
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children
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contributed
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delivered
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sold
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lent
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take
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create
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give
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forgive
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fond
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proud
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sure
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kind
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When Miss Hughes entered the classroom, the children stopped playing and talking.In one body, they stood up and 1 the teacher in a loud voice, “Good morning!” Miss Hughes smiled and told the class to sit down.She found at a 2 that there seemed to be thirty five pupils in the class, 3 .They were all watching her with fixed eyes, waiting no 4 to find what sort of person she was.
“I 5 you want to know my name,” she said.But before she could tell, a student 6 , “It’s Miss Hughes.” Hughes laughed.“ 7 travels fast,” she said.“I’m afraid it will take me 8 to learn all your names.”Miss Hughes 9 a list and began to call the pupils’ names in 10 .When she came to the last one, John, she noticed that he had been 11 for over a month, “What’s the matter with John?” she asked, looking 12 .“He’s in hospital.He had his leg broken, ” said a girl in the front 13 .“He slipped while skating,” 14 a boy.“Has anyone 15 to see him?” Miss Hughes asked.No one 16 .
It was 17 to start the lesson.The pupils 18 Miss Hughes to tell them a story.“Very well”, she said.“But first of all I’d like you to write a letter to John:We’ll 19 the best ones to him and 20 him up in hospital.Now I’ll tell you a story, if you are good.”