1. 【2014年湖南省长沙市中考】词语填空通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳答案。（共10 小题，计10 分）
This morning I got an e-mail from Roy. It seems that my boy really enjoys his new life at Harvard University.
The 1 made me think of the first day when we moved into this house.
Little Roy ran around the new house with great excitement and tried to move his own things into the house such as his toys, books and clothes, 2, his little hand knocked over（打翻）a bottle of paint on the shelf. The paint made the tidy floor and white wall a terrible mess（一团糟）. “Oh, my God!” My wife rushed in angrily. I looked at my son, and his small face was filled with 3.
I 4 and held his hand, “Take it easy, Roy. Now let’s do something to make it look 5.” I took out a 6. “You see, Dad is a magician（魔术师）, I can change it into a big tree.”
His mother soon helped paint some butterflies and flowers on the wall.
