题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
广西北流市实验中学2019-2020学年高二下学期英语入学检测试卷(含听力音频)
Just before Christmas, my daughter Katie and I went over to my dad's place to decorate. I couldn't help 1 the old glass balls when 2 them on the tree. Later that night before I went to sleep, in the quiet darkness, I recalled some 3 from years ago.
The Christmas after I turned 16, while decorating the 4 with my mom, I accidentally 5 and broke a ball. The old glass ball had been on our tree since I could 6.Broken-hearted, I knelt to pick up the pieces and was 7 to find a small slip of paper on the floor. Unfolding the note, I 8 my father's writing. Lifting my eyes, I saw my mother's 9 expression.
"Your daddy wrote that and put it in that 10 during our first Christmas together, just before you were born," she said with a smile. I wouldn't have 11 it, except for the proof there in my 12. The daddy I knew always seemed a bit 13 around the holidays. And yet, this bit of yellowed paper 14 that long ago, my daddy had done something quite romantic at Christmas.
I cleaned up the pieces, 15 I could put them together. "It's OK," Mom said. "Just pick out another of the old ones and put the 16 inside."
Now, as we 17 the holidays without my mom, who we lost to cancer, my discovery is even more 18. Each year as I decorate my dad's tree, I remember the moment I 19 with my mom that winter afternoon. The note inside one of those old glass balls on my dad's tree holds the heart of my parents' 20 in three little words: "I love you."
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