河北省武邑中学 2017-2018 学年高一英语上学期课练一It was Christmas day, and I was covered in flour, sugar, and eggs. Today I was determined to become the Queen of the 1 , even if my kitchen smelled like burned sugar.My grandfather loved sweets. When I was younger, he used to 2 his beloved coconut candies in a drawer and hide the key. So, the night before his 80th birthday, my cousin and I worked hard in our tiny kitchen. At midnight, we measured flour and sugar, separated eggs, and mixed the right pigments (色素) to 3 his smile.When my grandpa tasted his coconut cookies, our pigments indeed painted his toothless smile. At the end of the day, excitedly, next to the cookie box we found a 4 that read, “Thanks for refreshing my energy in such a(n) 5 way.”It was then that I fell in love with cooking and its magical ability to 6 someone's day. This Christmas, I baked for my friends, family, and for charity. As the leader of the Youth in Action group at my school, I 7 a bake sale to support poor families. And so, with all those to be warmed⁃⁃ 8 in mind, I busied myself around the kitchen carrying out my yearly Christmas baking marathon, producing donuts.I spread my spices (辛香料) carefully onto the dough. I know it sounds 9 to put spices in a dessert, but what better way to warm hearts than with such flavor in the middle of a cold, hard 10 ?There's nothing better than watching 11 bread. When you've spent hours preparing it, watching bread rise is like watching your baby grow up and seeing all your hard work come 12 .Someday maybe I'll be a banana bread and rise into an individual (个人) who is hardened by experience on the outside but is 13 soft and sweet on the in...
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