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One Saturday morning， I decided to walk into Liverpool city center and buy myself something. I didn’t need ___1___. I was just going to spend some ___2___！
I stepped into a general ___3 ___to buy myself some sweets for the walk. While I was making up my mind， the door ___4___ and in walked a girl， four years old at the most. She was wearing a summer dress and sandals[涼鞋] ___5___it was a bitterly cold. She was not too ___6___， obviously from a poor family.
She walked up to the counter[櫃台]， ___7___ up an d placed a fifty pence coin on the glass. Then， she proudly announced she had ___8___ this up to buy her little ___9___ a teddy bear as a birthday gift and she ___10___ that one there. The woman behind the ___11___ told the little girl the teddy bear cost___12___50 pence. The little girl tried another one， and another one， and another one.
I knew that ___13___of the teddy bears on display could be bought for 50 pence. I also knew that I could ___14___ buy the best teddy bear there ___15___ the money I was going to waste that day ___16___ did I want to encourage a little girl to take money from ___17___？
The little girl changed her mind when I ___18___to buy a teddy bear for her. “Oh， well，” she ___19___to the world. “I’ll just give him mine then.”
“I’ll just give him mine” didn’t sound like she was going to give him ONE of her teddies. She was going to give her little brother HER teddy， probably the ___20___ teddy she had！
1.A. something B. nothing C. everything D. anything
2.A. energy B. time C. money D. strength
3.A. school B. store C. restaurant D. hospital
4.A. opened B. shook C. broke D. losed
5.A. until B. even though C. unless D. as if
6.A. warm B. shy C. nervous D. clean
7.A. stood B. reached C. gave D. got
8.A. saved B. picked C. put D. brought
9.A. sister B. brother C. cousin D. student
10.A. created B. decorated C. wanted D. hated
11.A. desk B. counter C. window D. door
12.A. more than B. other than C. rather than D. less than
13.A. neither B. none C. any D. all
14. A. easily B. difficultly C. especially D. hardly
15. A. for B. with C. of D. by
16. A. so B. because C. but D. as
17. A. relatives B. strangers C. parents D. doctors
18. A. recovered B. calmed C. interviewed D. hesitated
19. A. announced B. stressed C. apologized D. pointed
20. A. only B. best C. cheapest D. last
B
The day just before Father’s Day， Mrs. Berry asked her students to make a card for their fathers. She passed out paper and pieces of cloth.
Elizabeth looked for a while at the blue
___1___ and began to cut it. Then she folded her paper in half and began writing. ___2___ Elizabeth finally looked at the message on the paper， she noticed something else. She felt her ___3___ grow warm—she hadn’t heard Mrs. Berry’s explanation that anyone who didn’t have a father could make a card for a grandfather or an uncle.
As her teacher walked to her， Elizabeth tried ___4___ her card with her arm， but Mrs. Berry gently ___5___ it so that she could read it. Elizabeth sat ___6___， waiting for her to say something， but she saw a ___7___ roll down Mrs. Berry’s face. She had never made Mrs. Berry so upset.
When school was over， Elizabeth ___8___ until all the other kids left so that she could ___9___. “I am sorry for not listening. I’ll make another card if you want. I’ll do it ___10___ and bring it tomorrow.”
“___11___are you talking about？” asked Mrs. Berry.