完形填空练习（八十一）
Dear Laura,
I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you 1 .
I wanted to do something very 2 for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been child. He 3 all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it 4 it looked almost new. I was so 5 of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.
I could 6 wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon awakening, I went to the kitchen to 7 the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a 8 : “To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”
I was so 9 . It had been a long-standing joke in our family that I want a piano so that I could 10 lessons. “Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one” was my husband’s 11 .
I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could 12 this expensive gift.
