Santa Can Come before Christmas
It was last June. I entered a supermarket to pick some vegetables，when a young man asked me，“Can you tell me where the counter（柜台） is? ”
“Well， the milk is in the lower right corner，” I replied.
Picking up my things，I finally came to the milk counter where I met the same man almost 10 bottles of milk.
I asked，“Do you need a basket or a trolley？”
“Sure，thank you.”he answered.
I was he was still picking more bottles and after a few minutes his trolley had 24 bottles of milk.
I laughed and asked, ”Why so many bottles?”
He smiled and said, ”These are for my street dogs. Today, I want to be a Santa them.”
I said,” Well ,it`s too for you to be a Santa,It is still June and Christmas comes in December.”
He at me and walked a few steps,as if he wanted to say something but he left the counter without saying anything.
,we met again at the bread counter.
“So these bread and cakes are also for the street dogs ,Mr.Santa.”
He smiled and said, ”Yes ,These are also for the dogs and I love to be Mr. Santa in the month of June, Santa is a representation(象征) of surprises and . Santa comes in December as we him around Christmas. But in real life there is a Santa in each one of us that shines through our personality at some point of time ,no matter which month it is. Maybe when you offered help to me by getting me a trolley ,there was a Santa in you ,When we offer food to a poor man or a(n) to someone who is caught in the rain ,we are being Santa there, So when you offer help to others or get help from others, just think that Santa has come all the way for you.”
He left and I was happy that I had met him. It was right to understand that Santa can come before Christmas, We just need to realize that he is around us by happiness and unconditional love.
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阅读下列两篇短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的ABCD四个选项中选出最佳答案，并将相应的字母填入答题卷内。
Tom is a middle school student. He enjoys ________ football. He also likes watching football matches. As he hasn’t enough money to buy tickets, he has to watch them on TV at home if he is free. But Tom must go to school ________ Monday to Friday. So he watches on Saturday________ Sunday.
Last Thursday morning there was a big football match on TV. Tom knew it. He got up late when his mother came into his bedroom and asked, “Why do you get up late? What’s wrong with you?” “I have a very bad headache (头痛) . I’m afraid I can’t go to school today. Mum, could I ________ home this morning? I think I ________ this afternoon.” Tom answered. “ But if the match is over, you must go to school this afternoon .” His mother said.
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Charlie and Jackie joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard. After several years, the boss made Jackie sales manager but Charlie there to be a salesman. One day Charlie could not take it any more. He handed in his resignation letter (辞职信) to the boss and that the boss did not value hardworking employees(雇员), but only raised those who tried to please him. He thought that it was really .
The boss knew that Charlie had made no efforts for the company all these years, but in order to help Charlie to realize the between him and Jackie, the boss asked Charlie to do the following. "Go and if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market." Charlie went, returned and said, "Yes." The boss asked, "How much per kilogram?" Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to , "$ 12 per kg."
The boss told Charlie that he would ask Jackie the question. Jackie went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $ 12 per kg, $ 100 for 5 kg. He has a of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg, from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good quality."
Charlie was shocked and he realized the difference between himself and Jackie. He decided not to but to learn from Jackie.
My dear friends, you know, a more person is more observant(留心), thinks more and understands better. For the same matter, he sees several years ahead, you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you ?
Think： how have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful(周到) are you?
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My cousin Sandy is ________English girl. Her ________ name is White. She is 12. The girl is ________ . In her room, her books and tape player ________ in the bookcase. Her pencil box is on the ________ . Her ruler is on the desk, too. And a set ___________ keys are in her pencil box. A baseball is under the desk, ________ it’s not Sandy’s. It’s her brother ________ . Sandy has a computer. ________ on the table. There is a photo on the wall. Two girls are in the photo. Do you know ________the two girls are? Well, they are Sandy’s good friends, Mary and Anna.
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Amy was a little girl. She lived near a fruit shop in the village. The shop was ________ by Mr. Smith.
One day Mr. Smith said to Amy, “Would you like to earn (赚) some money? ”
“Oh, yes,” replied she, “for I want some new shoes, and dad has no ________ to buy them with.”
“Well, Amy,” said Mr. Smith, “there are some fine ________ in Mr. Green’s garden, and he said that anybody was welcome to them. I will ________you thirteen cents (美分) a kilogram for all you will pick for me.”
Amy was so________ that she decided to go to pick the grapes as soon as possible. She ran home to get a ________ at once.
Then she thought she would like to know how much money she would get ________she picked five kilograms. ________ the help of her pencil, she found out that she would get sixty-five cents.
“But supposing I should pick twelve kilograms,” thought she, “________should I earn then?” “Dear me,” she said, after figuring (计算) a while, “I should earn one dollar and ________ cents.”
Amy then found out what Mr. Smith would pay her for fifty, a hundred, and two hundred kilograms. It took ________ some time to do this, and then it was so near lunch time that she had to ________ at home until afternoon.
As soon as lunch was ________ , she took her basket and ________ to the garden. Some boys had been there before lunch, and all the fine grapes were picked.
As she went home, she ________ what her teacher had often told her—“Do your task at once; then think about it,” for “one doer is worth a hundred dreamers.”
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A Thanksgiving Day article printed in a newspaper told of a school teacher who asked her class of first graders to draw a picture of something they were ________ for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods really had to be thankful for. ________ she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys(火鸡) or tables with food. The teacher was ________ to see the picture Douglas handed in… a ________hildishly(幼稚地) drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was greatly interested in the abstract(抽象的) image. “I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one child. “A farmer,” said another, “because he ________ the turkeys.” ________ when the others were at work, the teacher came over to Douglas’s desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, Teacher.” he ________ .
She remembered that very often at break time she had taken Douglas, a short ________ child by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it ________ so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone’s Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the ________ , in whatever small way, to give to others.
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