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| Jack Baines is a self-made millionaire, but his beginnings were very lowly. He was the youngest of eight children. His father had a 1 in a cotton mill(纱厂),but he was often 2 to work because of poor health. The family couldn't 3 to pay the rent or bills, and the children often went 4 . After leaving school at the age of 14, Jack was 5 what to do when Mr Walker, his old teacher, offered to lend him ~ 100 to start his own 6 . It was just after the war. Raw materials were not enough, and Jack saw a 7 in scrap metal (废弃金属). He bought bits of metal and stored it in an old garage. When he had built up a large amount, he sold it and 8 plenty of money. Jack 9 working hard. After one year he succeeded in 10 the ~ 100. By the time Jack was 30 years old he had 11 his first million, and he wanted to 12 this achievement by doing something " 13 ". With all his money it was 14 to build a beautiful home for himself and his parents. In 1959, " Baines Castle" was built in the 15 of the Lancashire countryside. It was one of the finest buildings in the country. Jack has recently sold "Baines Castle" for ~ 500 million, 16 Jack still can't get used to 17 the good life. He can often 18 drinking with the locals at the local pub(酒吧). "I remember being very 19 as a child, but never 20 as a child,"says Jack,"and I will never forget where I came from and who I am. " | |||
| ( )1. A. job ( )2. A. able ( )3. A. offer ( )4. A. wrong ( )5. A. seeing ( )6. A. school ( )7. A. problem ( )8. A. spent ( )9. A. enjoyed ( )10. A. developing ( )11. A. given ( )12. A. remember ( )13. A. common ( )14. A. impossible ( )15. A. ground ( )16. A. so ( )17. A. using ( )18. A. be found ( )19. A. rich ( )20. A. proud |
B. work B. glad B. like B. hungry B. wondering B. farm B. purpose B. borrowed B. preferred B. saving B. made B. honour B. simple B. possible B. front B. and B. sparing B. find B. poor B. satisfied |
C. company C. unable C. expect C. ill C. doubting C. business C. future C. wasted C. ptomised C. repaying C. taken C. celebrate C. interestin C. obvious C. spot C. or C. living C. look for C. healthy C. unhappy |
D. house D. eager D. afford D. bad D. preparing D. store D. principle D. earned D. hated D. paying D. lost D. recognize D. grand D. basic D. heart D. but D. keeping D. be looked for D. well D. happy |
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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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