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Every year, as soon as Halloween is over, our son Matthew waits for the lights. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, as the temperatures 1 and the leaves fall, he waits for the 2 .The neighbors across the street always put up a light display for the holidays and Matthew loves to wait for them to be turned on, which usually 3 right after Thanksgiving. 4 , he begins his monitoring a month before their arrival. And then, each day between Thanksgiving and 5 the lights are turned off, he waits, 6 , from mid afternoon on.
And when each evening's moment comes, you don't have to be with 7 . You know it no matter where you are in the house. The rhythmic 8 . The dancing around the house. Pure 9 on his face! And it happens every single night.
Despite all his 10 ，in the world's view — his severe mental disabilities, his two-year-old 11 in a twenty-three-year-old body, his inability to speak — Matthew knows 12 very profound, that light will shine in the darkness, and no matter how long the 13 is, without 14 , eventually , those lights will shine again. There will come a season when those lights will shine again.
Whatever 15 I find within and around me, I look to my son, and remember that a light can break the darkness.
1. A. rise B. change C. drop D. stay
2. A. lights B. neighbors C. tricks D. holidays
3. A. happens B. tests C. obtains D. delivers
4. A. Instead B. Then C. Therefore D. However
5. A. unless B. until C. after D. since
6. A. nervously B. impatiently C. excitedly D. quietly
7. A. it B. her C. one D. him
8. A. poems B. excitement C. clapping D. fighting
9. A. surprise B. sadness C. glory D. delight
10. A. limitations B. advantages C. characters D. beliefs
11.A. brother B. sister C. mind D. memory
12. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything
13. A. holiday B. display C. street D. wait
14. A. fail B. pity C. stop D. plan
15. A. happiness B. darkness C. sympathy D. warmth
A: 1—5 CAADB 6—10 CDCDA 11—15 CBDAB
