My sister, Cathy, who lives in Vancouver, sent me a package full of Christmas gifts. She told me that she had
36 it in advance to make sure it would arrive at my house weeks before the
37 . Christmas was drawing near, but no package arrived. Cathy checked the tracking number every
38 with Canada Post, and every evening she would call me to
39 if there was any sign of it on our end.
The
40 always started with questions about the package, but twenty minutes later we would still be
41 . We talked about our family, such as parents, our kids,
42 and so on. Of course we also talked about our jobs. We had never made so much
43 for each other! The talk always took us back to the hours we spend together in our childhood.
By Christmas Eve we finally had to
44 the fact that the package was
45 lost. On Christmas morning, Cathy got on the phone with everyone in my
46 and told them what she had sent. Later on, after a big Christmas dinner, I had forgotten all about the
47 package when there was a knock on the door. Who could it be at such a time? As I
48 the door, a man was standing there. “I
49 this is yours.” he said, holding a package. Just then I
50 that it had been delivered to the wrong address. “I just got home from vacation,” he explained, “
51 I wanted you to have this in time to open for Christmas.” I thanked this
52 stranger for taking so much trouble to
53 this gift to us on Christmas Day, and
54 thanked God that the package had been lost in the first place.
The real gift that holiday season was the new
55 to my sister who lives far away from us. Now there’s one gift I never want to give back!
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| 小题2: | | A．appointment | B．deadline | C．holiday | D．party |
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| 小题3: | | A．year | B．morning | C．week | D．month |
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| 小题4: | | A．pick out | B．take out | C．figure out | D．find out |
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| 小题5: | | A．complaint | B．conversation | C． discussion | D．quarrel |
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| 小题6: | | A．chatting | B．arguing | C． kidding | D．scolding |
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| 小题7: | | A．gifts | B．secrets | C．husband | D．clothing |
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| 小题8: | | A．food | B．time | C．achievement | D．money |
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| 小题9: | | A．consider | B．ignore | C． accept | D．study |
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| 小题10: | | A．entirely | B．simply | C．mostly | D．suddenly |
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| 小题11: | | A．restaurant | B．office | C．house | D．class |
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| 小题12: | | A．terrible | B．outstanding | C．big | D．missing |
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| 小题13: | | A．opened | B．locked | C．left | D．watched |
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| 小题14: | | A．understand | B．forget | C．know | D．believe |
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| 小题15: | | A．expected | B．dreamed | C．realized | D．remembered |
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| 小题17: | | A．generous | B．honest | C．polite | D．kind |
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| 小题18: | | A．show | B．present | C．return | D．offer |
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| 小题19: | | A．silently | B．carefully | C．gently | D．actually |
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| 小题20: | | A．connection | B．guide | C．recognition | D．closeness |
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