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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。 When I was a boy of nine, I used to help Mrs. Long, a retired art teacher who lived across my home. She paid me very little for the help, but she taught me how to paint and promised me, "When Christmas comes, I shall have a present for you." I kept wondering what it would be. The boys I played with had baseball gloves, ice skates and bicycles. I hoped that Mrs. Long would buy any one of them for me. "But it would hardly be ice skates," I reasoned with myself. "An old woman like Mrs. Long wouldn't know much about ice skates." I also ruled out the bicycle because she was just a retired art teacher in the local school and could not afford it. On my last day at work, Mrs. Long said, "You've been a very good boy. On Christmas Eve I'll make a present for you. Please come to my house and collect it." "Since she is going to have the present in her house, and since she will make it, unquestionably she is going to give me a pair of baseball gloves," I thought. Actually, I became so convinced that I could imagine myself playing baseball with my friends in those gloves. A day before the Christmas Eve, I could wait no longer and presented myself at the door of Mrs. Long's house and said, "Can I have my present today, Mrs. Long?" "I've been waiting for you," she said, leading me into her house. She sat me in a chair, disappeared to another room, and in a moment stood before me holding a package which under no circumstances could hold a bicycle or a pair of skates, or even a baseball glove. I lifted it from her hand and found it was extremely light. "What is it?" I asked with disappointment on my face. "A kind of magic," Mrs. Long said. "It can give you whatever you dream of if you have learned how to use it." 注意：1）续写词数应为150左右； 2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Suddenly, curiosity replaced my initial disappointment. …… It was not until some years later that I realized the real importance of the gift. 答案：   Suddenly, curiosity replaced my initial disappointment. Her words were enough to set my mind dancing with all kinds of possibilities. By the time I reached home, I had the box on my knees, tearing at the colored string that bound it. There in the box lay 20 colorful pencils and a collection of coloring paper drawn by Mrs. Long. The pictures were so beautiful that I fell in love with them immediately. It was not until some years later that I realized the real importance of the gift. It was much more significant than a baseball glove or a pair of skates, which would just satisfy a temporary desire. But the great present Mrs. Long gave me opened a window to a totally new world. Her gift was exactly what I needed, and it reached me at the time when I was best able to comprehend it.

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