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Mary had her own special kind of joy. and she knew exactly how to spread it around. She lifted children from  1 into laughter，love，and belonging.
Each time she found a new  2  for a child，she gave the family one of her little homemade paper roses. It had become a 3  for her,and the families didn’t’ever forget it．
One evening，Mary was 4 a meeting for adoptive parents．0ne of the  5  fathers stood up to introduce himself. But before he spoke,he reached into his coat pocket and held up a 6 ，red paper rose.
“Twenty years ago today, I felt alone and  7 .I didn’t know the talents inside me or what was possible for me.
Then Mary 8  two wonderful people into my life. They taught me what it was like to feel  9 .They not only loved me 10.They opened a world of  11 that I didn’t know existed．My new parents told me，‘Reach for your dreams!’
I did, and today I’m  12 to be giving that chance to a child who 13  just like me. My mother gave me this little rose. By now，all of you 14  where she got it so long ago.
Mary sent me a new rose just yesterday. And my new rose 15  a new spring，a beautiful new  1 6 for my own little girl. It  1 7  me to show her what unconditional love is，and to teach her to reach for her own beautiful dreams.
Thank you, Mary，for the special little things like roses that  18  our lives together. And thank you for all you’ve done for me and so many families over the years!”
One brief event can send our spirits soaring or  19  us in
quiet to ponder a new beginning.  20  it is also the very small
things，like Mary’s roses，that tie together the meaningful things.
1．A．poverty    B．10neliness  C．misery D．suffering   
2．A．home    B．place   C．school D．1ife   
3．A．glory    B．favor  C．habit D．tradition   
4．A. organizing    B. planning  C. hosting  D. attending   
5．A．new    B．grateful  C．kind D．active   
6．A．broken    B．faded  C．treasured D．dried   
7．A．tasteless    B．powerless C．priceless D．worthless   
8．A．directed    B．introduced  C．brought D．accepted
9．A．10ved    B．protected  C．cared D．cheered   
1 0．A. silently B. continuously
C．unintentionally D．unconditionally   
1 1．A．necessities   B.possibilities  C. beauties D．riches   
1 2．A．eager    B．willing  C．proud    D．1ucky   
13．A．started out    B．came up C．turned out D．grew up   
1 4．A．understand    B．guess C．tell D．know   
1 5．A．replaces    B．symbolizes C．equals D．creates   
1 6．A．chance    B．mystery C．challenge D．beginning   
1 7．A．reminds    B．helps  C．accompanies D．drives   
18．A．fix    B．close  C．tie D．gather   
19．A．cause    B．push  C．put D．1cave   
20．A．Yet    B．Besides C．Otherwise D．Therefore