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I used to find notes left in the collection basket of the church; beautiful notes about my homilies(布道)
and about the writer's thoughts on the daily readings. The  1  fascinated(吸引) me. But it was a long time  2  I met the author of the notes.
One Sunday morning, I was told someone was  3  for me in the office, a young woman who said she  4  all the notes. When I saw her I was  5  , since I had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes.
She was sitting in a chair in the office. Her head was  6  and when she raised it to look at me, she could
barely  7  without pain. Her face was disfigured(畸形), so smiling was very  8  for her.
We  9  for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week.
As it  10  we went to lunch several times, and we shared things about our  11  . We spoke of authors we both had  12  , and it was easy to tell that  13  were a great love of hers.
She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look  14  . I know that her condition  15  
her deeply. Yet there was a beauty in her that had  16  to do with looks. She was one to be listened to,
whose words came from a wounded but  17  heart. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her
only  18  in life was the loss of a friend.
The truth of her life was a desire to see  19  the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She
found beauty and  20  and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.

(     )1. A.collection     (     )2. A. since         (     )3. A. preparing     (     )4. A. cast           (     )5. A. shocked       (     )6. A.high           (     )7. A. stand         (     )8. A. sweet         (     )9. A. chatted       (     )10. A. turned out   (     )11. A. ideals       (     )12. A. known         (     )13. A. travel       (     )14. A. friendly     (     )15. A. hurt         (     )16. A. something     (     )17. A. cheerful     (     )18. A. fear         (     )19. A. on           (     )20. A. success

B. ideas         B. after         B. praying       B. left         B. dissatisfied B. bowed         B. smile         B. bitter       B. discussed     B. turned to     B. beliefs       B. recognized   B. prayer       B. pleasant     B. impressed     B. nothing       B. interesting   B. sorrow       B. in           B. hope

C. notes       C. when         C. waiting     C. dropped     C. frightened   C. leaned       C. speak       C. ugly         C. ate         C. came out     C. hobbies     C. read         C. writings     C. attractive   C. frustrated   C. link         C. loving       C. defeat       C. within       C. grace

D. basket         D. before         D. looking         D. collected       D. disappointed   D. shaken         D. cry             D. difficult       D. greeted         D. came to         D. lives           D. heard           D. books           D. unusual         D. affected       D. connection     D. excited         D. regret         D. beyond         D. happiness

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