Dear Mr Brown,
“Do you like my dress?" A little girl asked a passing stranger. "My mommy made it just for me." She said with tears in her eyes. "Well, I think it's very pretty. So tell me , little one, why are you
1 ?" With a quiver(颤动) in her voice the little girl answered，"After Mommy made me this dress, she had to
2 ." "Well, now," said the lady, "with a little girl like you waiting for her, I'm sure she'll be right
3 ." "No ,Madam,you don't understand," said the child through her tears," my daddy said she's up in
4 now with Grandfather. "Finally the woman
5 what the child meant, and why she was crying. Kneeling down she
6 cradled(抱着) the child in her arms and together they cried for the mommy that was gone. Then suddenly the little girl did something that the woman thought was a bit
7 .She stopped crying, stepped back from the woman and began to
8 .She sang so softly that it was almost a whisper. It was the
9 sound the woman had ever heard, almost like the song of a very small
10 . After the child stopped singing she explained to the lady, "My mommy used to sing that song to me before she went away, and she made me
11 to sing it whenever I started crying and it would make me
12 ." "See," she exclaimed, "it did, and now my eyes are
13 !" As the woman turned to go, the little girl grabbed her sleeve, "Madam, can you
14 a minute? I want to show you something." "Of course," she answered, "what do you want me to see?" Pointing to a spot on her dress, she said, "Right here is where my mommy
15 my dress, and here, "pointing to another spot, "and here is another kiss, and here, and here. Mommy said that she put all those kisses on my
16 so that I would have her kisses for every booboo (错误) that made me cry." Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress, no, she was looking at a
17 who knew that she was going away and would not be there to kiss away the
18 that she knew her daughter would get. So she took all the love she had for her beautiful little girl and put them into this dress that her child now so proudly
19 . She no longer saw a little girl in a
20 dress. She saw a child wrapped…in her mother's love.
| 小题1: | | A．standing | B．smiling | C．crying | D．talking |
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| 小题2: | | A．go out | B．run away | C．leave away | D．go away |
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| 小题4: | | A．sky | B．air | C．house | D．heaven |
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| 小题5: | | A．saw | B．realized | C．recognized | D．though |
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| 小题6: | | A．gently | B．rudely | C．happily | D．carefully |
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| 小题7: | | A．sad | B．terrible | C．strange | D．exciting |
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| 小题8: | | A．cry | B．shout | C．laugh | D．sing |
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| 小题9: | | A．sweetest | B．lowest | C．simplest | D．slightest |
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| 小题11: | | A．like | B．wish | C．permit | D．promise |
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| 小题12: | | A．stop | B．begin | C．continue | D．finish |
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| 小题15: | | A．kissed | B．made | C．gave | D．washed |
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| 小题16: | | A．hand | B．heart | C．body | D．dress |
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| 小题17: | | A．woman | B．soul | C．mother | D．Person |
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| 小题18: | | A．hurts | B．problem | C．joys | D．surprises |
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| 小题20: | | A．easy | B．beautiful | C．attractive | D．simple |
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