高考◆英语◆安徽省題庫下載題庫

It was the night before the composition was due. As I looked at the list of topics (题目) , "The Art of Eating Spaghetti (意大利面条) " caught my eye. The word "spaghetti" brought back the

 36   of an evening at Uncle Alien' s in Belleville   37   all of us were seated around the table and Aunt Pat  38   spaghetti for supper. Spaghetti was an exotic (外来的) treat in   39   days. Never had I eaten spaghetti, and  40   of the grown-ups had enough experience to be  41   it. What laughing  42   we had about the  43   respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to mouth.   44  , I wanted to write about that, but I wanted to  45   it down simply for my own 46 , not for Mr. Fleagle, my composition teacher.   47  , I would write something else.

When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no  48   left to write a proper composition for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morning but to  49   my work. Two days passed before Mr. Fleagle returned the   50   papers. He said, "Now, class, I want to read you a composition, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti'. "

My words! He was reading my words out  51   to the whole class.   52  laughed, then the whole class was laughing with open-hearted enjoyment. I did my best not to show  53  , but what I was feeling was pure happiness,   54   my words had the power to make people     55 .