Question

     On Christmas Eve, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper because money was tight.  31  , the next morning the little girl brought a girl box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!" As he opened the box, the father  32  (embarrass) by his earlier overreaction.

     But when he opened it, he found  33  was empty and again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady, "he said harshly, "when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package!" The little girl looked  34  at him with tears rolling from her eyes and said: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it  35  it was all full." The father was crushed. He fell  36  his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

        37  accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is said that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life.  38  he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child  39   had put it there.

     In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an invisible golden box filled with  40  (condition) love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

Answer 1

31. Nevertheless/However  32. was embarrassed  33. it                                34. up                35. until

36. on                              37. An                       38. Whenever/When          39. who             40. Unconditional