I was cleaning out an old box when an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket Company. "What is it?" I wondered. I _______ it over. There, in faded ink, was a hand-scrawled(手写的) _______. immediately my mind traveled back many years.
I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag of magazines on my shoulder. On my _______ that day, I came to that Company finally, whose owner, Mr. Rader, has always taken me there to ask his workers _______ they wanted any magazines.
Shaking off the _______ like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader's office. After a quick glance, he _______ me over to the fire-place. Noticing the _______ in the top of my _______, he said, "Come with me!" pulling me into his pickup truck. We pulled to a stop before a shoe store. Inside, a salesman _______ me with the finest pair of oxfords I had ever seen. I ________ about 10 feet tall when I got up ________ them. "We'd like a pair of new socks too," Mr. Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a ________, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With tearful eyes, I read, "Do to ________ as you would have them do to you." He said affectionately(深情地), "Jimmy, I want you to know I love you."
I said good-bye, and for the first time I ________ a flicker(闪光) of hope that somehow things would be all right. With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that would always make a ________.
1.A.read | B.thought | C.turned | D.passed |
2.A.address | B.list | C.message | D.information |
3.A.return | B.rounds | C.back | D.arrival |
4.A.where | B.how | C.whether | D.why |
5.A.hand | B.smell | C.tail | D.rain |
6.A.led | B.followed | C.watched | D.carried |
7.A.hole | B.space | C.water | D.cover |
8.A.magazine | B.shoe | C.sock | D.bag |
9.A.dressed | B.fitted | C.showed | D.exchanged |
10.A.appeared | B.seemed | C.looked | D.felt |
11.12.A.pen | B.paper | C.card | D.notebook |
13.A.others | B.me | C.you | D.nobody |
14.A.sensed(意识到) | B.received | C.lost | D.recalled |
15.A.deal | B.decision | C.choice | D.difference |