题目内容：

At the age of ten, my greatest desire was to own a pogo stick. With the Christmas season____,I told my mother again my desire. Mother told me it was too expensive and that we______ couldn’t afford one. One Saturday afternoon, parents and I went to Sears to pay our credit bill. While my mother and I were at the______ , my dad said, “I’ll be right back. I’ll see something in the ______ department.” After the bill was______, we went outside waiting for my dad. Soon he came with a long box. I remember______at that very moment if it was a pogo stick in it.

When we arrived back my dad put the box in the barn（谷仓）. While my parents were_______with housework, I______ into the barn and found the box. I knew that as soon as I opened that_______box my bright, shiny pogo stick would appear.

No such_______! Inside the box was a_______old broom. Christmas morning was both great and________I got some nice gifts_______I didn’t get the present that I really wanted.

After all the______ was cleaned up my dad said he needed to______ something in the barn. When he returned, he was______ my beautiful pogo stick. I couldn’t believe how they were able to scrape the money together for it and how they_______ me with the broom. I was so______ that I couldn’t let the pogo stick out of my_______

Although we didn’t have much money, my parents gave me the most important gift of all, a(n)_______of love.

1.A. reflecting    B. turning    C. approaching    D. distributing

2.A. hardly    B. simply    C. narrowly    D. particularly

3.A. desk    B. store    C. service    D. counter

4.A. book    B. toy    C. tool    D. food

5.A. taken care of    B. glanced through    C. confirmed    D. guaranteed

6.A. realizing    B. doubting    C. wondering    D. fancying

7.A. occupied    B. crazy    C. content    D. patient

8.A. slid    B. broke    C. jogged    D. burst

9.A. enormous    B. magic    C. heavy    D. fragile

10.A. pity    B. luck    C. promise    D. chance

11.A. silly    B. relevant    C. clumsy    D. precious

12.A. fulfilling    B. awful    C. awesome    D. frustrating

13.A. and    B. but    C. so    D. while

14.A. wrapping paper    B. dirt    C. food    D. work

15.A. keep up    B. pay for    C. tend to    D. think about

16.A. delivering    B. sheltering    C. fixing    D. carrying

17.A. treated    B. rewarded    C. presented    D. tricked

18.A. embarrassed    B. excited    C. grateful    D. frightened

19.A. reach    B. sight    C. scene    D. distance

20.A. abundance    B. number    C. diversity    D. total