Choose the best answer for the following blanks taken crept trimmed for granted overhead rose beloved clutched As a young boy, the writer (1) ____________ his parents talking about helping his father do the milking early every morning. He realized that he had (2) ________ his father’s love (3) ______________ so on Christmas morning he (4)___________ very early and (5)______________ downstairs and did the milking all alone. When his father discovered what he had done, he (6) ____________ the boy in his arms. Now, as an older man, he decides to (7)______________ the Christmas tree and tie his present and letter to his (8)__________ wife before she gets up. 共24分