完形填空。      The day was Thankful Thursday. It"s a weekly    1   that my two little girls and I began years ago.
Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive    2  .
     My girls shouted "McDonald"s, McDonald"s" as we    3   along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I    4 
 that almost every crossing I passed through was    5   by a panhandler (乞丐). And then it hit me! All
these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a(n)    6   15 lunches and we set
out to deliver them. We would pull    7   a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we
hoped things got better. Then we"d say, "Oh,    8  , here"s lunch."
     We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately    9   back in the opposite
direction for home.   10 , the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this
small woman stood. I was   11  and didn"t know quite how to behave.
     She made her way to our car, "No one has ever done   12  like this for me before," she said with   13 .
Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, "So,   14  do you think you"ll eat
your lunch?"
     She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, "Oh honey, I"m not going to eat this
lunch." I was   15 , but before I could say anything, she continued, "You see, I have a little girl and she just
loves McDonald"s, but I don"t have the money. But you know   16  tonight if she is going to have
McDonald"s!"
     I don"t know if the kids   17  the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of
kindness were too   18  or insignificant to really affect change.   19  in that moment, I recognized the   20 
 of Mother Teresa"s words:"We cannot do great things-only small things with great love."

(     )1. A. tradition     (     )2. A. decision      (     )3. A. walked        (     )4. A. reminded      (     )5. A. crowded       (     )6. A. additional    (     )7. A. close         (     )8. A. in fact       (     )9. A. faced         (     )10. A. Unfortunately (     )11. A. excited      (     )12. A. something    (     )13. A. amazement    (     )14. A. what         (     )15. A. shocked      (     )16. A. whether      (     )17. A. realized     (     )18. A. many         (     )19. A. Therefore    (     )20. A. promise

B. ceremony          B. choice            B. ran               B. realized          B. occupied          B. expensive         B. across            B. to tell the truth B. headed            B. Luckily           B. embarrassed       B. everything        B. fear              B. how               B. confused          B. if                B. felt              B. small             B. Although          B. oath

C. custom            C. contribution      C. wandered          C. understood        C. discovered        C. cheap             C. alongside         C. generally speaking C. turned            C. Unexpectedly      C. frightened        C. anything          C. sorrow            C. where             C. pleased           C. what              C. noticed           C. big               C. Meanwhile         C. truth

D. habit       D. plan        D. drove       D. thought     D. laid        D. special     D. throughout  D. by the way  D. looked      D. Hopefully   D. annoyed     D. nothing     D. amusement               D. when        D. worried     D. that        D. recognized  D. simple      D. Yet         D. spirit