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HOLIDAY HOMES IN MALLORCA B. the 2-week stay in the Hotel Splendid |
1—4 DBAB |
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The winter after 9/11 was a hard one for me. I had just left the Greenville and started what? 1to be long-term unemployment and, at midlife, many endless depressed 2.I felt empty inside. My one 3 was having my grandchildren, Sophie and Simeon, with me for Hanukkah?(犹太教的光明节),but when they 4 home, I was left with a 5 state of mind and that inner emptiness again.?
It was then that my wife, Linda, director of the Upstate Homeless Coalition, 6 that I play Santa for 30 children in a holiday program at a local hall. As she pointed out, I 7 the part. I have a big belly(肚子) and a full, almost white beard.?
The question about coming across religious limits doesn’t concern me. I’d always believed in 8 people to be less tough about sticking to those strict lines. 9,for reasons having nothing to do with religion, I 10 admit that year, my heart just wasn’t in it. Linda 11 “the show must go on.” So I practised “Ho, ho, ho.”?
I was not 12for the 30 sets of eyes that fastened upon me 13 I walked in. “Santa! Santa! Look at my new shoes! Santa! I’ve been a good girl. Santa! Can we sing ‘Jingle Bells’?”
They 14 around me, hugged and kissed me. Each child sat in my lap and posed (摆姿势)for 15 and I gave them all a present—a teddy bear, a doll...
Their?16 delight and excited voices brought tears to my eyes. I felt a wave of compassion(同情).These 17 were God’s gentlest gifts to a 18 world—gifts of warmth and love. These homeless children 19 me from self-doubt and depression.20 I lost my mind and regained my healthy state of judgment.
1.A.ought B.went C.proved D.supposed?
2.A.wishes B.days C.ideas D.jobs?
3.A.sadness B.hobby C.hope q D.happiness?
4.A.returned B.got C.left D.came?
5.A.cheerful B.dark C.light D.normal?
6.A.demanded B.said C.remembered D.suggested?
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8.A.allowing B.preventing C.stopping D.encouraging?
9.A.Yet B.So C.Therefore D.And?
10.A.can B.must C.may D.shall?
11.A.insisted B.ordered C.advised D.joked?
12.A.familiar B.strange C.prepared D.known?
13.A.while B.before C.until D.when?
14.A.walked B.crowded C.stared D.observed?
15.A.a picture B.a book C.a smile D.a pleasure?
16.A.relaxed B.pitiful C.shameful D.confused?
17.A.memories B.children C.tears D.eyes?
18.A.kind B.big C.warm D.cold?
19.A.lifted B.took C.push D.pulled?
20.A.Since then B.Sooner or later C.At that moment D.In no time