How old was I? I can’t remember. Maybe I was only 10. It was the first    16   without my father because he was away for something. He left me to fill that sad place in my mother’s heart. It was the Christmas when I stopped being a    17   and tried to play Father Christmas myself. I really wanted to make it happy and bright again. It was the Christmas of the    18  .
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, a nice    19   shop in our town’s little shopping mall. It was dark green. And it was a    20  , heavy, wool dress coat. Mom pulled it out from the rack(架) and held it up. “Long enough,” she said in a low voice and    21  .
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the mirror. She looked good on any clothes,       22   this coat suited her much better. She looked at the    23  , then hung the coat back on the rack, standing there once more to    24   
Eighty-seven dollars. But I decided to buy it for her. As we moved on    25  the mall, I found some excuse to return and asked one of the Tobias ladies to    26   the coat.
I helped clean every yard(庭院) in our neighbourhood—some yards twice, and soon I got the coat. The store ladies helped me put it in their biggest    27   with bright blue paper and thick silver ribbon(丝带). I don’t remember    28   I got it home, but I can still feel the wonderful    29   and pride that filled me. I would imagine the big space which the box would take up under our tree. Here it was—joy, peace and    30  —all in the box, waiting for Mom’s surprise.

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Mr. Black works in a hospital in a town. He is a good   1  , and people in the town like him very much. He is very     2  to his patients(病人),  3  many people like to ask him for help.

One day, Mr. Black gets to the hospital and 4  a fat(胖) woman in the waiting room. He calls her to his office and asks,“ What’s  5   with you?，madam?”“It’s my birthday today, sir”says the woman.“My husband(丈夫)”  6  me a present(礼物). But I can’t go in it.” “It doesn’t matter, madam,” says Mr. Black. “You 7  lose some weight(减肥)”.Then, you can go in 8   your coat.” “You are   9   ,doctor, says the woman. “He buys me not a coat, but a  10   !

1.                A．doctor         B．nurse          C．office worker  D．teacher

2.                A．friend          B．bad            C．sorry D．kind

3.                A．because        B．before         C．after D．so

4.                A．find            B．looks at         C．listen to  D．sees

5.                A．matter         B．your name      C．wrong    D．doing

6.                A．takes          B．gives           C．goes D．comes

7.                A．like            B．want           C．should   D．would like

8.                A．/              B．a              C．an   D．the

9.                A．right           B．wrong          C．easy D．difficult

10.               A．bike           B．car            C．lamp  D．computer

This is a big tree. I can   36  a girl under it. She   37  a student.   38  name is Kate Green. She is   39  American girl. Kate is   40  yellow trousers.   41  are very nice.   42  boy near Kate is her brother, Jim. Jim is   43  a green, orange and blue bike. His coat is blue and his shoes   44  white. Kate and Jim are good students. They are  45  the same(相同的) school.

The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and picked up four people from the street. One of them was in a most  15  condition, and I told the others: You look after the other three. I take care of this one who looked  16 . So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful  17  on her face. She took hold of my   __18__as she said “thank you” and she died. I asked myself what I would say if I was in her  19. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little 20  to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something else, but she gave me much more---she gave me her grateful love. And she 21  with a smile on her face. As did that man whom we picked up from the drain (下水道), half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. “I have lived like an  22 in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.” And it was so  23 to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without complaining, without cursing(诅咒) anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel---this is the 24  of our people.

How is the weather in Xinjiang?
Xinjiang is  1   the west of China. The weather there is very  2  . It’s cold in the morning,  3  it turns warm at noon. You must have  4   the famous saying, “Put on your leather coat in the morning but put on your shirt in the  5 of the day. And you can eat watermelons at the fire.” It means the weather changes very  6  . It rains little so it’s also very  7 there. And the fruit there is very sweet  8  there is lots of sunshine. Xinjiang is also famous    9   its grapes (葡萄).
Mutton (牛肉) is Xinjiang’s popular food. Roast mutton is very delicious.  10   you go to Xinjiang one day, remember to try it.