After the fire, we went to live with my __44__ in her one－bedroom apartment and __45__ on her living room floor. Practically penniless, __46__.

　　Immediately after remembering what day it was, I __47__ that I didn't have anything to give my mother for Christmas Day. We had __48__ given each other something, __49__ it was just a cookie heart she baked or a paper card I had made.

　　I stayed on the balcony of the apartment, feeling sad for I __50__ not being able to give my mother anything, especially now. She needed __51__； she was every bit as __52____53__ I could have ever imagined. The brightly colored sun __54__ lightly on top of some clouds __55__ unbelievable blues, browns and reds. The __56__ combined in pleasant ways. Something clicked in my head—that was the perfect __57__ for my mother.

　　I ran __58__， too excited to talk, and pulled my mother out onto the balcony. The colors had filled the entire sky.

　　Mother was __59__ but then happy. She told me in a breathless voice that no one had ever given her anything as __60__， or as beautiful. She said she would take the light and colors of that sunset and keep them in her heart forever...

　　【语篇导读】在过去的一个月里作者经历了许多的不幸；父亲的离去、家里失火。结果一家人一无所有。圣诞节之际作者拿什么作为礼物送给母亲呢？无意之中作者发现了天空那么美丽的日落那不正是送给母亲的最好的礼物D)41. A. beat

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