At the age of 16, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we ________ that “our family” was living in a trailer (拖车) that was in ________ condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, ________ every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.
We decided the only reasonable ________ was to build a new house — something unusual but ________ under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room? ” Expecting ________ and other gadgets (小玩意) that children usually ask for, we were ________ when Josh responded, “I just want a bed.”
The boys had ________ slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect ________. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly ________ ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to ________ us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the ________.
As my father slipped a pillowcase (枕套) onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, “What is that?”
“A pillow,” he replied.
“What do you do ________ it?” Eric continued to ask.
“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow.
“Oh ... that’s soft,” he said, ________ it tightly.
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my Dad gently asks,?“Do you have a pillow?” We know exactly what he ________.
1.A. imaginedB. ignoredC. discoveredD. required
2.A. brightB. strangeC. perfectD. poor
3.A. soB. butC. otherwiseD. though
4.A. effortB. purposeC. solutionD. treatment
5.A. necessaryB. expensiveC. amazingD. rare
6.A. toysB. moneyC. foodD. sneakers
7.A. upsetB. gladC. disappointedD. astonished
8.A. stillB. justC. neverD. seldom
9.A. awardB. giftC. lessonD. target
10.A. controlB. believeC. helpD. express
11.A. amuseB. guideC. helpD. watch
12.A. bedB. doorwayC. yardD. house
13.A. withB. forC. aboutD. on
14.A. squeezingB. huggingC. throwingD. shaking
15.A. explainsB. provesC. meansD. reflects
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