The Faces of Christmas

“ Oh, Sally! Christmas is going to be so terrible this year,” my best friend Laura said to me on the school bus. “ Mom and Dad have to be out of town on Christmas, and I have to stay with my Aunt Jane. She always treats (对待) me like a five-year-old! I wish I had a ______ family like you, so I could go somewhere else.”

I do have a big family: Mom, Dad, Mary, Jim and I, as well as lots of aunts and uncles. Every Christmas, the whole family get together at our house to have dinner.

Later that day, I told Mom about Laura’s ______ .

“ Why don’t you ask Laura to spend Christmas at our house? ” Mom offered.

“ Oh, Mom, that would be great! I’m sure Laura would love to come.” I was so excited.

“ There will be an extra (额外的) place at the table anyway, because Mary has a chance to go to France with her teachers.” Mom went on while washing dishes.

“No! Mom, she can’t go, or she’ll ______ Christmas with the family. We’ve always spent it together…” When I wanted to say more, the telephone rang. It was my brother Jim calling. He asked if Mom and Dad wouldn’t ______ too much if he didn’t come home for Christmas, because he wanted to go skating with friends. Of course, Mom and Dad said Jim could go, but I had wanted them to say no.

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Laura came over, which cheered me up a lot.

“Where are Mary and Jim?” she asked me.

“They’ve made other ______ , so they aren’t coming home,” I said. “Christmas just isn’t going to be the same this year ______ them.”

“Of course,” Mom went over and said. “No two Christmases are ever the same. People ______ —children grow older, new members are added (添加) to the family, and sometimes people die. Do you understand that, Sally?”

“ Yes, Mom,” I said. “ I think I do.”

Next evening, all my relatives (亲戚) arrived. As I looked around the dinner table, I really began to ______ what Mom had tried to tell me. I saw the new faces of babies, my aunt’s boyfriend, and my best friend, Laura, and I saw the old familiar faces that would always be there. No, I thought. No two Christmases are ever the same.

1.A. big B. happy C. rich D. usual

2.A. accident B. advice C. difference D. problem

3.A. follow B. miss C. forget D. spend

4.A. ask B. speak C. mind D. think

5.A. conversations B. plans C. suggestions D. mistakes

6.A. against B. around C. between D. without

7.A. change B. appear C. improve D. move

8.A. imagine B. remember C. understand D. show

Yesterday was Father's Day. Many things happening between my father and me crowded my

_____. But there was one thing I remembered very well.

It was a Sunday morning, I was in a terrible mood (情绪) .Two of my friends had gone to the movies the night before and hadn’t _____ me. I was in my room thinking up ways to make them

sorry when my father came in. “Want to go for a ride today, Beck? It's a beautiful day. ”

“No !Leave me alone!” Those were the _____ words I said to him that morning.

My friends called and asked me to go to the mall with them ____ hours later. I forgot to be

______with them and then went with them. When I came home, I found a note on the table. My

mother put it where I would be_____ to see it. “Dad has had an accident .Please _____at

Highland Park Hospital.

When I _____ the hospital ,my mother came out and told me a car hit my father and he was hurt badly. “Your father told the driver to leave him alone and just call 911, thank God! If he had

moved Daddy...”

My mother ______have said more, but I didn't hear. I didn't hear anything those terrible

words: Leave me alone. My dad said them in order to _____ himself. He didn't want to be hurt

more. How much had I hurt him when I shouted out those words at him earlier in the day?

It was several days later that he was _____ able to have a talk. I held his hand gently, afraid of hurting him.

“ Daddy". ..I am so sorry...”

“ It's okay, sweetheart. I'll be okay. ”

“No ,”I said ,“I mean about what I said to you that day. You know, that morning?”

He looked at me and said, Sweetheart, I remember _______about that day, not before, during

or after the accident. I remember telling you good night the night before, though . ” He managed a weak smile.

My English teacher _____ told me that words have great power. They can hurt or they can heal

(治愈) . And we all have the power to _____ our words. I am going to do that very _____ from

now on. What about you, my friend?

1.A. mind B. culture C. event D. holiday

2.A. expected B. invited C. promised D. shook

3.A. main B. common. C. normal D. last

4.A. a little B. a few C. little D. few

5.A. upset B. glad C. angry D. serious

6.A. similar. B. possible C. sure. D. ready

7.A. meet B. catch. C. swing D. solve

8.A. reached. B. got C. arrived. D. appeared

9.A. couldn’t B. might C. led to D. would

10.A. believe B. act C. improve D. save

11.A. closely B. certainly C. finally D. really

12.A. anything B. something . C. nothing. D. everything

13.A. ever. B. even. C. still D. already

14.A. organize B. choose C. share. D. discuss

15.A. care fully B. clearly. C. simply D. truly

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