题目内容：

    When I was little, my classmate and neighbor Paul would take wonderful Santa face cookies to school every year as his birthday ________. In those days, I would always follow him when he shared the cookies with other classmates, just in case someone had been ________ and as a result he had an extra ________ or two. Somehow, one cookie ________ long enough for me to show it to my mother. She got the ________ from Paul’s mother and bought the special cookie cutter at Morley Brothers, our local hardware shop.

Over the years, my mother and I would ________ to make these cookies. After I got married, I bought my own cookie cutter and the cookies remained a ________ for the Christmas time. Later, my mother gave me her cutter. I ________ both of the Santa face cookie cutters because Morley Brothers had ________ years before and we never saw anything that even ________ these wonderful Santa faces.

One year, after I made the cookies, the two cutters were waiting to be hand washed and ________ for another year. Well, my oldest daughter decided to help out by ________ the dishwasher. You guessed it. ________, the two treasured plastic cutters, came out distorted and totally ________. I knew if I couldn’t ________ them, a long-standing tradition would come to a ________.

After making several telephone ________, I learned a woman named Pat Kimbrel had ________ the hardware business from her grandmother. I was excited! Immediately, I called and managed to talk with Pat about the happy memories connected with her grandmother’s cookie cutters. Eventually, through Pat I got four Santa face cookie cutters.

Now the family tradition is ________ in both our and our daughters’ houses. So, Paul, thanks to you and your grandmother. I’ll bet you never know how many lives you affect or for how many years the ________ will be felt.

1.A.benefit B.wish C.treat D.game

2.A.curious B.absent C.free D.cautious

3.A.gift B.class C.cookie D.cutter

4.A.appeared B.expanded C.sold D.survived

5.A.recipe B.response C.award D.comment

6.A.manage B.continue C.expect D.struggle

7.A.program B.challenge C.must D.memory

8.A.equipped B.accepted C.spared D.guarded

9.A.closed B.enlarged C.existed D.opened

10.A.combined B.resembled C.represented D.suited

11.A.put away B.saved on C.set down D.brought up

12.A.loading B.handling C.covering D.fixing

13.A.Obviously B.Surprisingly C.hopefully D.Unfortunately

14.A.invalid B.invaluable C.unusable D.unavailable

15.A.copy B.replace C.identify D.share

16.A.fall B.head C.deal D.stop

17.A.businesses B.services C.lines D.enquiries

18.A.taken over B.taken up C.taken down D.taken to

19.A.inspired B.observed C.learnt D.taught

20.A.appreciation B.pleasure C.influence D.motivation