I’ ll never forget the day my ear broke down. It literally was the middle of the night and we were miles from home. We tried to get it started again, but in vain, and there was no traffic on the road at all, so we couldn’t get a lift. So we had to walk all the way home. To make matters worse, it started to rain and by the time we arrived home about two hours later, we were wet through. But the worse was yet to come! looked in my pockets and Jane looked in hers but there was no key.
In the end we realized that one of us (probably me) had left the from door key in the car. We had no choice but to break a window and climb in. Unfortunately just as we were about to climb through the broken window, a policeman arrived on the scene. In the end we convinced him and he let us go in. By the time we eventually got to bed, it was past 3 o’ clock and we were cold, wet, miserable and absolutely exhausted.
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be (16) Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the other kids asked what I’ d (17) " Just when I started to (18) that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women (19) at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of (20) that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t (21) . Somebody had thought (22) of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my (23) Christmas there special and memorable, I (24) remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of (25) for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I (26) a plan and
A. atmosphere
B. sympathy
C. calmness
D. joy
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