完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Two days before Thanksgiving, I was trying to open my mouth wide enough for a mirror and a roll of steel wire. Metal braces (牙齿矫正器)had been on my31for weeks, but this was the day for the wire to be adjusted. Only those who have had braces will understand the terrible32of being “wired”. For the next 24 hours, it felt like every tooth was being33slowly by a giant clawhammer (拔钉锤). 34drinking water caused pain.
By Thanksgiving Day, I had got used to it.35I didn’t use my teeth, the pain was bearable. But this was a day when teeth had to36longer than usual. We were37at my grandparents’ house with relatives. The house was filled with so many pleasant38that we could hardly resist the food. When grandma said, “Dinner is ready!” all the kids39to be first in line. I was so excited that I40the braces in my mouth and41my way up to the head of the line.
I piled my plate high with my favorite corn-on-the-cob(玉米棒子)and42my mouth to enjoy it. The pain was43. I felt I would never be able to eat again. I put my plate away and ran outside in44.
Grandma then took my plate to the45. She cut all the corn off that cob and rescued me from my46. She handed me my plate piled high with corn. “Thanks,” I said47. Then I looked up and48a strange light in her eye, a light that is still49to me after more than fifty years. That was the Thanksgiving when I discovered something more50than good food.
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