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Unit 22 Environmental Protection Ⅰ.完形填空 When I was 6 years old, my parents got me a used__1__for Christmas. A year or so later, I badly wanted a StingRay，a trickedout bike that was__2__ in the 1960s. So my father took my old bike, slapped a new coat of paint on it, and__3__it with a banana seat, monkey handlebars and a sissy bar(保护杠)．__4__didn't matter to me that some friends had new StingRays straight from the Schwinn factory. Or even that my dad put the sissy bar on backward，__5__exposed me to some teasing(嘲笑) before we__6__it. I loved that bike. So it was for my__7__. We weren't poor. But we always had modest Christmases. And I__8__ to do the same when I got married 27 years ago. My wife, Clarissa, had different__9__. She, too, had some__10__Christmases growing up. She vividly remembers when she was 14 or 15 years old and her father lost his__11__in the construction industry. She overheard her__12__talking about how__13__they were. So when her parents asked her what she wanted that year, she said, “Nothing.” When her mother insisted she had to get__14__，Clarissa asked for socks. “I felt very good about myself afterward，” she recalls. But as her family's finances__15__， Christmas went back to being a__16__bigger production. By the time I arrived on the scene, the__17__family—more than 20 people—would gather at her grandmother's house in Mexicali, Mexico, on Christmas Eve. Around 10 p．m., Santa(my future brotherinlaw in a costume) showed up with an enormous bag of__18__and stepped into a roomful of children crying with__19__. | 
