11.Hard as you try to break with family tradition,your heart remains at home on the holidays.
---Tayari Jones
Everybody in my family always get excited about the Christmas.As the middle,artist child,I was going to do my own thing,make some new(41)C.From a book,I drew(42)B---I would spend the holiday at an artist colony!
No one took the news very well.From the way my mother got angry(43)D me,you would think that I was divorcing the family.(44)C,I held my ground and made plans for my winter adventure in New Hampshire.About 30artists were there,and it was as well artsy as I had(45)A.It felt like my life had become a strange independent film.
By Christmas Eve,I had been at the colony more than a week.The novelty (新奇感) was(46)A away.This was the holiday I'd always dreamed of.Not a Christmas sweater anywhere in(47)D.People here didn't even say"Christmas,"they said"holiday."Entire relaxation.Then why was I so (48)C?
Finally,I(49)B home.My dad answered,but I could (50)C hear him for there was too much good-time noise in the background.He turned (51)A the volume on the Stevie Wonder holiday album and(52)C me that my mother was out shopping with my brothers.Now it was my turn to (53)D.They were having a fine Christmas without me.
Despite a heavy snowstorm,a large package(54)D near my door at the artist colony on Christmas morning.Tayari Jones was written in my mother's beautiful(55)A.I grasped at that parcel(包裹) like I was five years old.Inside was a beautiful delicious cake,my (56)B."Merry Christmas",read the simple card(57)C."We love you very much."
As I sliced the cake,everyone(58)B around.Mother had sent a homemade gift.It was a minor Christmas miracle (奇迹) that one cake managed to feed so(59)A.We ate it from paper towels with our bare hands,satisfying a(60)B we didn't know we had.
41.A.comments | B.adjustments | C.traditions | D.possibilities |
42.A.significance | B.inspiration | C.enthusiasm | D.discovery |
43.A.on | B.about | C.over | D.with |
44.A.But | B.Therefore | C.Still | D.Moreover |
45.A.imagined | B.designed | C.informed | D.interviewed |
46.A.fading | B.taking | C.putting | D.giving |
47.A.error | B.danger | C.return | D.sight |
48.A.happy | B.excited | C.sad | D.fortunate |
49.A.returned | B.called | C.escaped | D.knocked |
50.A.clearly | B.sincerely | C.barely | D.extremely |
51.A.down | B.up | C.in | D.over |
52.A.spoke | B.said | C.told | D.talked |
53.A.cry | B.laugh | C.disappoint | D.upset |
54.A.added up | B.built up | C.dug up | D.showed up |
55.A.handwriting | B.words | C.name | D.letters |
56.A.impact | B.favorite | C.ingredient | D.option |
57.A.outside | B.upside | C.inside | D.downside |
58.A.ran | B.gathered | C.scared | D.flew |
59.A.many | B.lot | C.much | D.few |
60.A.liberty | B.hunger | C.interest | D.dilemma |