1 . My 4-year-old son now enjoys posting letters. He has formed the _______of drawing pictures, writing his name on them, and then ______ the artwork in an envelope. He then insists on ______ his handwork to the neighbors, and a mail box he _______ belongs to the elderly couple who live next door. To be ______, I didn’t think much of it, but I had ______ to warn my neighbors of the drawings ______ appearing in their letterboxes—I just didn’t have the ______ to do so, because I was a little busy recently.
On Tuesday of last week, I was walking down to school to collect my son when I _______ Mary, my elderly neighbor, ______at her mail box. She said, “Jodie, is it your little son that has been posting items in my letterbox to me?” I was at once ______, “Oh yes, Mary, it is. I’m sorry. I meant to tell you…” She cut me off, “Jodie, I just love his mail. I’ve _______ every item he has sent. You don’t know how much _______ the letters has made my day. I just love them.” While I was walking down to school after our _______, many thoughts came to me. Mary doesn’t have a lot to fill her days, ______ she was a mother to a number of children herself who receives fairly regular visitors. The small ______ of getting some mail—pictures drawn by the hand of a young child—has brought ______ to her days, just as my visit to my grandparents does.
I have decided that my son should ________ this practice. He should also start sending some items to his grandparents in Perth as well. It will most ________ make their day.
It’s doing the little, simple things that can often make a big ______ in someone’s life.
1. A.habit | B.attitude | C.style | D.form |
2. A.hiding | B.writing | C.drawing | D.putting |
3. A.handing | B.holding | C.posting | D.writing |
4. A.opened | B.set | C.chose | D.saw |
5. A.kind | B.surprised | C.careful | D.honest |
6. A.meant | B.asked | C.hated | D.refused |
7. A.actually | B.suddenly | C.hardly | D.partly |
8. A.intelligence | B.strength | C.money | D.time |
9. A.met | B.visited | C.dated | D.called |
10. A.crying | B.lying | C.laughing | D.standing |
11. A.humorous | B.embarrassed | C.confused | D.amused |
12. A.copied | B.bought | C.kept | D.examined |
13. A.receiving | B.writing | C.painting | D.exchanging |
14. A.report | B.expression | C.talk | D.discussion |
15. A.unless | B.but | C.so | D.although |
16. A.charge | B.offer | C.act | D.help |
17. A.worth | B.happiness | C.value | D.future |
18. A.add | B.stop | C.continue | D.form |
19. A.certainly | B.unfortunately | C.accidentally | D.confidently |
20. A.point | B.difference | C.behaviour | D.living |