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Every year, as soon as Halloween is over, our son Matthew waits for the lights. He's been doing it f...
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Every year, as soon as Halloween is over, our son Matthew waits for the lights. He's been doing it for more than a dozen ______. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, as the temperatures ______ and the leaves fall, he waits for the ______.
The neighbors across the street always put up a ______ and brilliant light display for the holidays and Matthew loves to wait for them to be turned on, which usually ______ right after Thanksgiving.______ he begins his monitoring a month before their arrival. And then, each day between Thanksgiving and ______ the lights are turned off, he waits, ______， from midafternoon on.
And when each evening's moment comes, you don't have to be with ______. You know it no matter where you are in the house. The rhythmic ______. The dancing around the house. Pure ______ on his face! And it happens every single night.
Despite all his ______， in the world's view — his severe mental disabilities, his two-year-old ______ in a twenty-three-year-old body, his inability to speak — Matthew knows ______ very profound, that light will shine in the darkness, that no matter how dark, how long the ______ eventually, and without ______， those lights will shine again. No matter how many seasons of the year without them, there will come a season when those lights will shine again.
Life ______ its own seasons of darkness，desperate, lonely, ______ and full of fear at times. ______those seasons, a new season can come and the light can be seen again. Whatever ______ I find within and around me, I look to my son, and remember that a light can break the darkness.
1.A. hours B. seconds C. decades D. years
2.A. rise B. change C. drop D. stay
3.A. lights B. neighbors C. tricks D. holidays
4.A. tasteful B. beautiful C. strong D. strange
5.A. happens B. tests C. obtains D. delivers
6.A. Instead B. Then C. Therefore D. However
7.A. unless B. until C. after D. since
8.A. nervously B. impatiently C. excitedly D. quietly
9.A. it B. her C. one D. him
10.A. poems B. excitement C. fighting D. clapping
11.A. surprise B. sadness C. glory D. delight
12.A. limitations B. advantages C. characters D. beliefs
13.A. brother B. sister C. mind D. memory
14.A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything
15.A. holiday B. display C. street D. wait
16.A. fail B. pity C. stop D. plan
17.A. receives B. proves C. supports D. brings
18.A. satisfying B. unwilling C. painful D. peaceful
19.A. In spite of B. Thanks to C. Regardless of D. As to
20.A. happiness B. darkness C. sympathy D. warmth
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