Teaching my first child, Danae, to share her toys was the biggest challenge. To 1 this, we started inviting other children to play, which could help Danae discover that it’s 2 to share with others – a lesson I needed to 3 myself as well, as it 4 .
One evening Danac had 5 a friend, Natalie, to play with her. Their favorite was a children’s 6 game called Go Fish. That evening, 7 Natalie left, Danae came to me and said, “Mommy, I’d like to give these to Natalie tomorrow. They’re her favorites.”
She help up three cards from the Go Fish game. I tried to 8 that I didn’t want her to give them away because then our 9 wouldn’t be complete. “But I really want her to have them!” Danae 10 . I thought perhaps she didn’t understand that when she gave something away, it was gone 11 . So I tried again, saying, “ 12 you give the cards to her, you can’t 13 them back tomorrow.”
A look of 14 came over Danae’s face. For a moment I was happy that she seemed to 15 . But then she smiled and said. “Well, that’s okay, I want her to have them anyway.”
What could I say to that? I sat 16 for a moment and then I realized I had been trying for so long to 17 her to share. Did it 18 that our Go Fish set would be 19 ? What mattered was that my daughter was learning the 20 of giving, that she was thinking about others instead of herself, and that she was trying to make her friends happy. Isn’t that what life is all about?
1．A．achieve B．apply C．receive D．get
2．A．kind B．gentle C．fun D．merciful
3．A．design B．know C．create D．review
4．A．turned up B．turned away C．turned to D．turned out
5．A．begged B．encouraged C．invited D．found
6．A．box B．card C．paper D．show
7．A．before B．while C．after D．until
8．A．explain B．suggest C．respond D．teach
9．A．thing B．card C．set D．toy
10．A．insisted B．recommended C．announced D．cried
11．A．surely B．suddenly C．forever D．indeed
12．A．If B．Once C．As D．Unless
13．A．ask for B．call for C．look for D．care of
14．A．surprise B．concern C．delight D．satisfaction
15．A．understand B．accept C．refuse D．doubt
16．A．sadly B．angrily C．quietly D．slowly
17．A．conduct B．ask C．force D．help
18．A．work B．mean C．remind D．matter
19．A．incomplete B．lost C．limited D．gone
20．A．content B．usefulness C．way D．joy