A new pastor（牧师） was to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn. Walking on the street, he found a beautiful old handmade   36   for sale. It was just the right size to   37   the hole in the front wall. He bought it and   38   back to the church.  

It started to snow. An old woman missed her bus near the church. The pastor invited her   39    in the warm church for the next bus    40    was 45 minutes later. She sat and  

41   the pastor put up the tablecloth on the wall. Then her face turned    42  . “Pastor,” she asked, “where did you get that tablecloth?” The pastor    43   . The woman asked him to see    44   the letters EBG were on the right corner. Yes, they were, the woman said EBG was the first    45   of her name and she made it 35 years before. She and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was   46   to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. But she was captured,   47   to prison and never saw her husband again.  

The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth, but she made the pastor    48   it. The pastor 49   driving her home. She lived   50   the other side of Staten Island doing a house cleaning job.  

What a wonderful service people had at the church on Christmas Eve! At the end of the  51   an old man was left alone, and asked the pastor where he got the tablecloth because it was the one that his wife had made years   52  when they lived in Austria before the war. He told the pastor how the Nazis came, and he was   53   and put in prison. He never saw his wife or his home again. The pastor asked him if he   54   allow him to take him for a little ride.  

They drove to Staten Island to the same house, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas   55   he could ever imagine.  

A new pastor（牧师） was to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn. Walking on the street, he found a beautiful old handmade   36   for sale. It was just the right size to   37   the hole in the front wall. He bought it and   38   back to the church.  

It started to snow. An old woman missed her bus near the church. The pastor invited her   39    in the warm church for the next bus    40    was 45 minutes later. She sat and  

41   the pastor put up the tablecloth on the wall. Then her face turned    42  . “Pastor,” she asked, “where did you get that tablecloth?” The pastor    43   . The woman asked him to see    44   the letters EBG were on the right corner. Yes, they were, the woman said EBG was the first    45   of her name and she made it 35 years before. She and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was   46   to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. But she was captured,   47   to prison and never saw her husband again.  

The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth, but she made the pastor    48   it. The pastor 49   driving her home. She lived   50   the other side of Staten Island doing a house cleaning job.  

What a wonderful service people had at the church on Christmas Eve! At the end of the  51   an old man was left alone, and asked the pastor where he got the tablecloth because it was the one that his wife had made years   52  when they lived in Austria before the war. He told the pastor how the Nazis came, and he was   53   and put in prison. He never saw his wife or his home again. The pastor asked him if he   54   allow him to take him for a little ride.  

They drove to Staten Island to the same house, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas   55   he could ever imagine.  

One day in early December, we woke up to discover a heavy fall of snow. “Mom, can we go __31__ after breakfast?” my eleven-year-old daughter Erica begged. I didn’t want to __32__ her request, so we headed towards the only __33__ in our town.

When we arrived, the hill was crowded with people. We found an open spot next to a thin man and his three-year-old son. The boy was already lying in the sled (雪橇), __34__ to be launched. “Come on, Daddy!” he called.

The man looked over at me. “Okay if we go __35__?” he asked.

“Sure. Looks like your son is ready to go,” I said. With that, he gave the boy a huge __36__, and off he flew! And the father ran after his son at full speed.

“He must be afraid that his son is going to __37__ somebody,” I said to Erica. “We’d better be __38__, too.”

Then we also skied down the hill at a great speed. As we returned to the top, I noticed that the man was __39__ his son, who was still lying in the sled, back up to the summit（山顶）. When we reached the top, the boy was ready to play again. Again, the father __40__ him down the hill, and then pulled both the boy and the sled back up. The little boy was terribly spoilt by his father, I thought. __41__ he was small, the child could pull his own sled up the hill once in a while. This __42__ went on for more than an hour, but the man never __43__, and he was very happy instead. Finally, I could __44__ it no longer. I called to him, “You have tremendous __45__!”

The man smiled and said, “He has cerebral palsy (脑瘫). He can’t walk. ”

I was dumbstruck (惊呆的). It had all seemed so happy, so __46__, that it never occurred to me that the child might be __47__. Although I didn’t know the man’s name, I told the __48__ in my newspaper column. Either he or someone he knew must have recognized him, __49__ shortly afterward, I received this letter:

Dear Mrs. Silverman,

The energy I expended on the hill that day is __50__ compared to what my son does every day. To me, he is a true hero.

31. A. skiing              B. hiking                       C. shopping                      D. camping

32. A. answer               B. allow                        C. refuse                      D. accept

33. A. lake                    B. hill                           C. market                    D. gym

34. A. waiting            B. advising                    C. promising                 D. warning

35. A. too                         B. second                            C. first                        D. last

36. A. wave                  B. ability                       C. touch                             D. push

37. A. look at                B. come across            C. run into              D. call on

38. A. careful                B. honest                      C. natural                     D. special

39. A. attracting            B. pulling               C. following                 D. forbidding

40. A. chased                B. found                       C. drove                             D. noticed

41. A. As if                   B. Now that                 C. Even though         D. Ever since

42. A. accident                  B. signal                       C. adventure                D. pattern

43. A. doubted                     B. laughed                    C. cried                       D. tired

44. A. stand               B. interrupt                   C. change                    D. demand

45. A. value                  B. energy                      C. skills                       D. attitude

46. A. fair                     B. normal                         C. frightening               D. unlucky

47. A. homeless             B. technical                   C. disabled                    D. creative

48. A. joke                    B. news                        C. meeting                   D. story

49. A. if                     B. unless                      C. because                   D. although

50. A. nothing               B. everything                C. something                D. all      

When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to Sunday School and then church. The __21__ in elementary school would all meet together to sing songs, and then later divide into groups based __22__ their ages.

One Easter Sunday, all the kids __23__ with big __24__ about what the Easter Bunny(复活节兔子) had brought. __25__ all of the kids shared their stories with __26__, one young boy, whom I should call Bobby, sat __27__. One of the teachers, noticing this, said to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny __28__ you?” He replied, “My mum __29__ the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn’t get __30__ because he hadn’t got a key.”

This sounded like a __31__ idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the stories. My mom knew the true story, __32__. Bobby’s mom was a single parent, and she suspected(怀疑) that they just couldn’t __33__ the Easter Bunny.

After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to __34__. But my mom announced that we were going home __35__. At home, she explained that to make Bobby feel __36__, we were going to pretend to be the Easter Bunny, make a basket of our candies for him and __37__ it at church. We all donated some to the basket, and _38__ back to church. There, mom hung the basket over the hanger(挂钩) and attached a(n) __39__:

Dear Bobby,

I’m sorry I __40__ your house last night. Happy Easter!

                                                    Love,

                                                    The Easter Bunny