Dear Laura,
I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you  ___36___.
I wanted to do something very ___37___ for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He ___38___ all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it ___39___ it looked almost new. I was so ___40___ of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.
I could ___41___ wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon a wakening, I went to the kitchen to ___42___ the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a ___43___:” To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”
I was so ___44___. It had been a long-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could ___45___ lessons. “Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one” was my husband’s ___46___.
I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could ___47___ this expensive gift.
Of course, the ___48___ awoke, and my son was thrilled(激动的)with my reaction. Many kisses were ___49___, and I immediately wanted him to ___50___ my gift.
As he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not ___51___ what I was expecting. Then I ___52___ that he has sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.
Of course I was the proudest mother ___53___ on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month.
So I wanted you to know, that kind of love still ___54___ and lives even in the ever-changing world of me, me, me!
I thought you’d love to ___55___ this story.
Yours,
Hilary
P.S. The next day, my husband and I bought him a new “used” already shiny motorcycle.
36. A. hope    B. advice C. support      D. courage
37. A. polite   B. similar       C. special       D. private
38. A. played  B. studied       C. traveled      D. worked
39. A. after     B. before C. unless D. until
40. A. sure     B. fond   C. proud  D. confident
41. A. perhaps       B. really  C. almost D. hardly
42. A. start     B. cook   C. set      D. serve
43. A. note     B. notice C. word   D. sign
44. A. disturbed     B. confused    C. astonished  D. inspired
45. A. give     B. take    C. draw   D. teach
46. A. reason  B. request       C. comment    D. response
47. A. present B. afford C. find    D. order
48. A. neighbor      B. building     C. home  D. house
49. A. exchanged B. experienced  C. expected     D. exhibited
50. A. tear      B. open   C. check  D. receive
51. A. purely  B. basically     C. obviously   D. exactly
52. A. realized       B. remembered      C. imagined    D. supposed
53. A. only     B. still     C. ever    D. even
54. A. works   B. exists  C. matters       D. counts
55. A. send     B. publish       C. share   D. write