名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Nice and Ugly 学案-高三英语二轮复习培优.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选Nice and Ugly 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选Nice and Ugly 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 家庭亲情 四星 648 【文章梗概】之前，爸爸在圣诞节给妈妈买的衣服，妈妈嫌丑总退还给爸爸了。后来爸爸约我一起去为妈妈挑选衣服，妈妈总是很欣然地接受了，并认为很合身。最近一次在为妈妈买衣服的过程中，我同爸爸发生了分歧，并各自买了一件，妈妈认为我买的不错，但爸爸买的更好。上一个圣诞节前爸爸去世了，看着妈妈穿着之前爸爸买的我认为很丑的衣服，现在看起来却非常好。 Thanks for going to the holiday office party in a Christmas sweater that’s more embarrassing than my behavior. ~Author Unknown My dad knew that Mom only wanted one thing for Christmas: clothes. But my poor father had no idea what to buy her. The year before she had returned almost every present he had given her. He decided I would help him. I was fifteen years old, opinionated and fashion-minded. We set out on a shopping expedition and it was going great. We had spent the entire day buying clothes Mom would love. Then Dad saw the display of Christmas sweaters. They were hideous — some red, some green, some glittery, others depicting cute, fuzzy forest creatures in the snow. Dad said that his one success every year was when he bought Mom the ugliest, gaudiest Christmas sweater he could find. Over my objections, he purchased one with a Christmas tree that lit up and played music. On Christmas morning, Dad and I exchanged glances as Mom began to open the ugly sweater. She gasped and I thought, “Ah ha! I knew it!” I smirked at my father. “How cute!” Mom said, and lifted the sweater from the box, holding it in front of her. She swooned when Dad showed her the button that lit the tree up and played the “O Christmas Tree” tune. Dad grinned at me and winked. Mom loved all her presents that year. The pants fit. The dresses were the right color. The blouses were age appropriate. So every year thereafter, my father and I would hit the malls together and spend the entire day shopping for Mom’s Christmas presents. As I got older, married and had a child of my own, our tradition still continued. This was an annual father-daughter date. Years after that first Christmas shopping trip for Mom, Da