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.
1.A.turning B.showing C.holding D.hanging
2.A.unreasonable B.expected C.acceptable D.unbelievable
3.A.adults B.teenagers C.women D.strangers
4.A.color B.style C.price D.size
5.A.wore B.carried C.lent D.sent
6.A.carefully B.comfortably C.casually D.quickly
7.A.happiness B.matter C.smile D.change
8.A.doubt B.argument C.fight D.war
9.A.thoughtful B.handsome C.hopeful D.curious
10.A.of B.with C.on D.at
11.A.discovered B.confirmed C.concluded D.wondered
12.A.can B.should C.will D.must
13.A.present B.mark C.word D.result
14.A.it B.them C.this D.one
15.A.taking up B.looking down to C.checking up D.looking up at
16.A.trust B.exchange C.mistake D.regard
17.A.Though B.But C.Since D.So
18.A.matching B.attaching C.relating D.connecting
19.A.career B.life C.study D.success
20.A.how B.why C.where D.when
—How long have you been going to work on foot?
—Since last month when I ________ from a heart attack.
A.recovered B.have recovered
C.was recovering D.would recover
— The light is so weak that I can’t _______ the words in the article.
— Maybe your eyesight is failing.
A.leave out B.make out C.check out D.figure out
—Do you think it wise for Chinese mothers to try to do everything for their children?
—No, that’s ________ they are mistaken.
A.where B.what C.when D.how
To my delight, the students are recycling many things they _______ away in the past.
A.were throwing B.will be throwing C.would have thrown D.had thrown
After the flooding, people were suffering in that area, ________ urgently needed clean water, medicine and shelter to survive.
A.which B.who
C.where D.what