My kids sat on Gee’s living room floor and respectfully lifted Christmas decorations out of a cardboard box. They shouted with delight when they discovered a tiny toy cat. Finally, my son was _____ about a tiny modern helicopter, just on the contrary, my daughter with a traditional Mickey Mouse.
Gee stood beside them, _____ each treasure. She turned to me and continued to say she and Tom built their collections over time by buying one or two nice ones each year in the after-Christmas sales. Eventually, we left, with boxes in my arms and she was smiling. Her _____ belongings, gathered over a lifetime, found a new home.
We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Jim and I worked full-time, and in the morning we _____ our garbage cans on the roadside, which would have to wait the long, lonely 10 hours there until we returned to _____ them. Every day we’d come home to find them neatly _____ in their spot next to our garage. Finally we saw an old couple who lived with his 10-year-old grandson across from us pick them up.
Tom and Gee quietly picked up garbage cans and taught us what it _____ to be a neighbor. They taught us that home doesn’t end at a boundary line. It _____ to all these people. These people, the _____ among them and the love that flows through them all explain what a home is.
This Christmas, we’ll make our tree attractive with Gee’s decorations. We’ll bring beautifully packaged Christmas presents to some neighbors like the couple. To others, we’ll ______ a wave and a “Merry Christmas.”
1. A.doubtful | B.anxious | C.pitiful | D.crazy |
2. A.designing | B.getting | C.explaining | D.weighing |
3. A.strange | B.precious | C.modern | D.spare |
4. A.laid | B.emptied | C.deserted | D.stored |
5. A.store up | B.deal with | C.make out | D.care about |
6. A.buried | B.transformed | C.placed | D.developed |
7. A.occurred | B.meant | C.reflected | D.expected |
8. A.turns | B.adds | C.agrees | D.extends |
9. A.control | B.words | C.connections | D.comfort |
10. A.stop | B.create | C.keep | D.exchange |