My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. While the other coats drooped(低垂), this one looked as if it were
_______ itself up. The coat had beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a(an)
_______ price of $28, which was popular just then with
_______, but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better, bearing that
_______ of classic elegance(优雅). John tried it on and the fit was perfect.
John
_______ the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile“Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said,
_______ folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a
_______ came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and reasoned discussion replaced fierce
_______. He became more mannerly and
_______, eager to please. He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him
________ his behavior.
When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and ________ what caused the changes, she said laughing. “It ________ be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good ________ not only because he had earned ________ but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran into a friend “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly, ________ John’s new height, assessing the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never ________a person’s clothes for the real person within them. ________ there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for ________ what is on the inside to what is on the outside.
For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to ________ as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape ________ all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.
11. A.turning | B.showing | C.holding | D.hanging |
12. A.unreasonable | B.expected | C.acceptable | D.unbelievable |
13. A.adults | B.teenagers | C.women | D.strangers |
14. A.color | B.style | C.price | D.size |
15. A.wore | B.carried | C.lent | D.sent |
16. A.carefully | B.comfortably | C.casually | D.quickly |
17. A.happiness | B.matter | C.smile | D.change |
18. A.doubt | B.argument | C.fight | D.war |
19. A.thoughtful | B.handsome | C.hopeful | D.curious |
20. 21. A.discovered | B.confirmed | C.concluded | D.wondered |
22. A.can | B.should | C.will | D.must |
23. A.present | B.mark | C.word | D.result |
24. 25. A.taking up | B.looking down to | C.checking up | D.looking up at |
26. A.trust | B.exchange | C.mistake | D.regard |
27. 28. A.matching | B.attaching | C.relating | D.connecting |
29. A.career | B.life | C.study | D.success |
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