Question

閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容及首字母提示，在空白處填入一個適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。

“Do you like my dress?” She asked a passing stranger. “My mommy made it just for me.” She said with tears in her eyes.

“I think it is really pretty, but why are you (71) c______”

With a quiver (顫抖) in her voice, the little girl answered, “After mommy made me the (72) d______, she had to go to the heaven (天堂).”

Finally the woman realized what the child meant. She gently (73) h____ the child in her arms and together they cried for the mommy that was gone.

Then suddenly the little stopped crying, stepped back from the woman and (74) b____ to sing. She sang so softly that it was almost a whisper. It was the sweetest sound the woman had ever heard, a most like the song of a very small bird.

(75) A_____ the child stopped singing, she explained to the lady, “My mommy used to sing that song to me before she went away, and she made me promise to sing it whenever I started crying and (76) i____ would make me stop.”

“See,” she said, “it did, and now my eyes are dry!”

As the woman turned to go, the little girl grabbed her sleeve(袖子). “Madam, can you stay just a minute? I want to show you (77) s________.”

“Of course,” she answered.

(78) P______ to a spot on her dress, she said, “Right here is where my mommy kissed my dress and here,” pointing to another spot, “and here is another kiss, and here, and here.” Mommy said she put all those kisses on my dress so that I would have all kisses for everything that made me cry.

Then the lady (79) r______ that she wasn’t just looking at a dress, no, she was looking at a mother…who knew she was going away and would not be there to kiss away the hurts that she knew her daughter would get. So she took all the love she had for her beautiful little girl and put them into this dress that her child now so proudly wore.

She (80) n____ longer saw a little girl in a simple dress. She saw a child wrapped…in her mother’s love.

Answer 1

71. crying     72. dress           73. held / hug  74. began         75. After

76. it            77. something      78. pointing           79. realized        80. no