There at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, my l4-year-old son, John, and I noticed the coat. While the other coats drooped (低垂), this one looked as if it were
41 itself up. The coat was beautifully made, with a Fifth Avenue label and an
42 price of $28, which was popular just then with
43 , but could cost several hundred dollars new. John tried it on and the
44 was perfect.
John
45 the coat to school the next day and came home with a big smile. “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said,
46 folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a
47 came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作對) and
48 discussion replaced fierce argument. He became more mannerly and
49 , eager to please. He would generously lend his younger brother his tapes and lecture him
50 his behavior. When I mentioned this
51 to his teacher and wondered what caused the changes, she said laughing. “It
52 be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned
53 but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran
54 a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly,
55 John’s new height, appreciating the cut of his coat and holding out his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never
56 a person’s clothes for the real person within them.
57 , there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for
58 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.
For John, it is a time when it is as easy to try on different
59 to life as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape
60 all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.
小題1: | A.turning | B.holding | C.showing | D.hanging |
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小題2: | A.unreasonable | B.unbearable | C.unbelievable | D.unfair |
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小題3: | A.teenagers | B.adults | C.women | D.men |
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小題4: | A.color | B.price | C.style | D.fit |
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小題5: | A.sent | B.carried | C.brought | D.wore |
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小題6: | A.casually | B.comfortably | C.carefully | D.quickly |
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小題7: | A.happiness | B.change | C.smile | D.matter |
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小題8: | A.reasoned | B.heated | C.wild | D.strong |
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小題9: | A.considerate | B.handsome | C.hopeful | D.curious |
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小題11: | A.incident | B.accident | C.affair | D.event |
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小題12: | A.can | B.must | C.will | D.should |
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小題14: | A.down | B.with | C.into | D.after |
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小題15: | A.looking up at | B.looking down on | C.putting up with | D.coming up with |
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小題16: | A.change | B.mistake | C.trade | D.turn |
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小題17: | A.However | B.Moreover | C.Therefore | D.Besides |
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小題18: | A.attaching | B.joining | C.relating | D.matching |
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小題19: | A.mean | B.methods | C.approaches | D.measures |
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