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   Parents and grandparents are understandably proud of the quick minds and impressive talents of their little ones.

But let me tell you about another  41  , perhaps even more  42  , found in a little girl named Skylar.

I received a letter from a grandmother who told me about her four-year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar  43  of Disneyland from TV, she  44  her pocket money in a piggy bank to  45  it someday. However, her parents  46  her with a trip when she was four, and didn’t even  47  her to use her own money!

When Skylar returned, it was Christmas time. She wanted to buy   48  with her savings. But she also learned from announcements on TV about a local homeless   49   called “The Road House”. She repeatedly asked her mother what “homeless” meant and why those children 50 coats and warm clothes. She couldn’t seem to get the homeless off her  51  .

Her mother took her to the store to buy presents.  52  buying for herself or her family, however, she  53  to buy a warm coat, socks and gloves for a little girl in the shelter. She also wanted to buy a doll, but when she  54  she didn’t have enough money, she  55  the doll.

When Skylar got home, she  56  one of her favorite dolls and put it into the box with the other items she bought that day. She could  57  wait for Christmas! Skylar was thinking about going to the shelter and giving her  58  gifts to a homeless child. She was much filled with joy at truly59 someone else.

“Perhaps it’s good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to have a beautiful 60  ,” says Nobel Laureate John Hash. “It is that one quality, above all else, that makes beautiful people.”

41. A. condition            B. advantage           C. quality          D. method

42. A. necessary        B. important           C. popular          D. ordinary

43. A. learned          B. spoke            C. thought          D. told

44. A. made             B. appealed         C. took            D. saved

45. A. honor            B. favor               C. visit                D. possess

46. A. disappointed         B. ashamed          C. appointed        D. surprised

47. A. let              B. require          C. allow            D. teach

48. A. services             B. gifts                C. clothes          D. tickets

49. A. shelter              B. family           C. village          D. town

50. A. sold                 B. wore            C. needed           D. liked

51. A. effect           B. mind             C. tendency         D. experience

52. A. Instead of       B. Apart from       C. Along with       D. In spite of

53. A. regretted            B. decided          C. adopted          D. pretended

54. A. reminded             B. promised         C. forgot           D. discovered

55. A. felt like            B. left behind     C. took away        D. wrote down

56. A. chose            B. kept                 C. lost                 D. watched

57. A. flexibly         B. calmly           C. desperately      D. hardly

58. A. exchanged        B. bought           C. selected         D. designed

59. A. helping          B. appreciating         C. admiring         D. believing

60. A. idea                 B. present          C. heart            D. wish

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