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广西2018-2019学年九年级上册Modules 7-8教材综合中考英语总复习
I grew up in a poor family where none of us kids believed in Santa Claus. My parents refused to let us believe in him. They couldn't provide us 1 expensive presents. And they didn't want us to think we weren't as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all kinds of toys under the tree that were 2 to be left by Santa Claus.
That year when Christmas came, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took us three kids out into the night one after 3. I had a blanket (毛毯) with me, and when it was my turn, I offered to share it with Dad, but he said," No, thanks. "The 4 never troubled him. I sat next to Dad and we looked up at the sky.
"Pick out your 5 star. It'll be your Christmas present," Dad said.
"You can't give me a star! No one owns a star. "
"That's right," Dad said. "No one else owns a star. You just have to claim(认领) it 6 anyone else does , just like Columbus claimed America. "
I 7 it for a while. "I want that one," I said.
"That's Venus(金星). It is a planet. It shines only from reflected (反射的) light. "I like it anyway," I said.
"It's Christmas. You can have a planet if you want. "
That evening, we discussed outer space and I realized Dad was a man with much 8 of the stars and planets. We all 9 about the other kids who believed in Santa Claus and got nothing for Christmas but some cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all that they got are broken and long forgotten," Dad said. "You'll 10 have your stars."
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