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While we were writing the invitations, my mom came in and asked, “Nancy, what about inviting John?” John had been in our class for only a few months, but he was already getting better grades in math than anyone else in our class. “Mom, he wears the same pants to school every day. How could he even afford a costume?” Mom said nothing.
The next day, mom gave me an envelope(信封) with a shopping card in it. “I thought it would be nice for you to give this to John.” Mom said. But how? We didn’t want to make John embarrassed. We discussed it for a long time. Finally, Betty and I had a good idea.
On the day of our party, John arrived, in an old sheet(床单),but still in the same brown pants as usual. Before eating the birthday cake, Betty said in a loud voice, “Now it’s time for the great prize game.” It was a math game. None of us were surprised when John gave the right answer first and walked off with the envelope.
Everything went well as we planned. John wore a new pair of pants and a new shirt the next week. He felt happy. So did we.
小题1: Nancy and Betty are ______.
A.best friends | B.cousins |
C.sisters | D.brother and sister |
A.English | B.games |
C.math | D.science |
A.Nancy’s mother | B.Nancy |
C.Betty | D.Betty and Nancy |
A.an envelope | B.a shopping card |
C.a birthday cake | D.a new pair of pants |
A.happy | B.embarrassed |
C.surprised | D.sad |
This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for, Alice, had gone through a difficult time. She got dementia and so she had been in the hospital twice. In November I was finally able to get her back to her “home”.
Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen, she was very sad. Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy, I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday!
On Christmas Eve, I gave her a surprise by asking if she would like to go to a candlelight service at church that night.
Instead of taking her to my church, I took her to her old neighborhood church where all her friends were. We got there early and I got her a seat where her friends could see her as they came in. Then soon some of her friends came to the church and they rushed over to greet her and sit with her.
The candlelight service was beautiful and Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there.
The truth of the story is that I am the one who got the best gift: the smile on Alice’s face.
小题1:The underlined word “dementia” in Paragraph 2 probably is _____.
A.an illness | B.a letter | C.a house | D.a plan |
A.The candlelight service. | B.Praise from Alice’s friends. |
C.Thanks from Alice’s daughter. | D.Alice’s happiness. |
A.Alice’s daughter came to visit her on Christmas Eve. |
B.None of Alice’s friends came to the church. |
C.The candlelight Christmas Eve made Alice really happy. |
D.Alice’s family never got together on Christmas Day in the old days. |
A.A special candlelight Christmas Eve | B.The dream of an old lonely lady |
C.My special job | D.The true love |
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