When my son was 11 years old, he got a small job helping out with a traveling carnival in our town．He didn’t come home at lunch time, phoning  1 to tell me he was fine and had found a few days’ work  2  out at an exhibit．However, after he finished work he 3  for supper as usual．

I asked him how he had  4  at lunch and he told me he had made some new  5  at the carnival, some young men who were twin brothers, and their mom and dad．They had _6_ him a few dollars and invited him for lunch  7  for helping them set up their exhibit and wanted him to  8  the next day to help with other chores（杂务）．

I was glad he had found new friends but a little  9  about the type of people who might be traveling in a carnival．“Oh, Mom, these are just 10  everyday people like anyone else．They 11  work at a carnival instead of in a store or something”．“Come down tomorrow and  12  them yourself,” he said．

So the next day I went to the carnival and to the exhibit he had  13  me to．The twin brothers  14  out to be Siamese（连体的） twins, joined at the chest．He hadn’t thought this 15  was noteworthy enough to mention．When I brought it to him, he said, “yes, I  16  that too．Do you know that their mom has to make all their clothes  17  it’s so difficult to find anything to fit them? They’re also really good  18．Today, Joe, the one on the right, made me spaghetti （意大利面条） for lunch．”

What others see first in a person is not what a child considers 19．Where I saw Siamese twins, he saw people having difficulty buying clothes that fit, and young men who were good cooks．It was a  20  I have thought about many times over the years．

1．A．instead             B．even               C．also               D．besides

2．A．leaving             B．helping           C．taking            D．showing

3．A．did up              B．gave up         C．took up          D．turned up

4．A．sought             B．managed         C．worked          D．acted

5．A．clothes             B．friends           C．choices          D．differences

6．A．paid                 B．charged         C．lent                D．owed

7．A．by chance        B．in return         C．by turns                D．in advance

8．A．return              B．promise         C．consider         D．decide

9．A．excited             B．regretful         C．worried         D．optimistic

10．A．humorous       B．obvious         C．particular        D．normal

11．A．just                B．never             C．hardly            D．always

12．A．teach             B．meet              C．affect             D．join

13．A．ordered          B．directed         C．forced            D．persuaded

14．A．worked          B．left                 C．came             D．turned

15．A．expression      B．change           C．fact               D．idea

16．A．understood     B．made              C．noticed           D．formed

17．A．before           B．if                 C．after              D．because

18．A．cooks            B．doctors          C．artists            D．singers

19．A．necessary       B．important        C．impossible      D．unlucky

20．A．lesson            B．festival           C．task               D．match