题目内容
A football coach in a high school had an idea and made a contract with his wife that he would take care of their children and do all the housework during the summertime.Would he be able to complete the task ?
It was all his own idea, says Pat, the wife of California high school football coach Bob Peters.Bob had 1 made a motherhood contract (合同) declaring that for 70 days this summer he would 2 the care of their four children and all the housework. 3 he didn't even know how to make coffee when he sighed, he was very confident.
After 40 of the 70 days, he was ready to 4 .I was beaten down, admits Bob.Not only is motherhood a 5 task, it is an impossible job for any normal human being.
Bob and Pat were married in 1991.After the marriage, Pat 6 a secretary to help put him through university. 7 Bob has been the football coach while Pat raised the kids. 8 two years ago Pat went back to work.I had been 9 children so much, she 10 , I couldn't talk to a grown-up.She continued to run the household, 11
until Bob sighed the contract.
Bob tried hard to learn cooking, but the meals he prepared were 12 .For the last three weeks, the family 13 a lot ?sometimes having MacDonald's hamburgers for lunch and dinner.
14 housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean 15 the bed is made.I found 16
I shut the doors, he says.Soon the kids were wearing their shirts inside out.When we went to 17 Pat at work, I made them wear their shirts 18 side out so they would look clean.
Now that Bob has publicly 19 he was wrong, he is 20 the child-raising and household tasks with Pat.
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My husband Jack hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___16___, but the commercial aspects of it. Knowing he felt this ______17___, I decided one year to___18___the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something _____19__just for Jack. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was______20______at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match____21_____a team sponsored by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so_______22_____that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together,____23______our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was_____24_____to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet designed to____25_____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not_____26_____ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ______27_____up from the mat, they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit______28______.
Jack, seated beside me, shook his head_____29_____, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but______30_____like this could take the heart right out of them.” Jack loved_____31_____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the ____32______for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _____33______some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Jack what I had done and that this was his_______34_____from me. His smile was the_______35______ thing about Christmas that year.
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