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Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house.
No card came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not
1 at all. After a while I stopped trying to
2 the
sender's name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
However, I never
3 imagining who the giver night be. Some of my happiest
4 were spent day
dreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She'd ask me if there was someone for
whom I had shown special
5 . Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I'd delivered during
the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a
6 I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely
7 in my
upcoming graduation dance, and I didn't
8 if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, despite her own
sadness, would not let me
9 any of those things. She wanted her children not only to be lovable but to feel
10 . In truth, my mother wanted her children to see
11 much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect
with perhaps a bit of mystery (神秘) .
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was twenty-two years old. That was the year the gardenia
stopped
12 .
( )1. A. careful
( )2. A. take out
( )3. A. stopped
( )4. A. moments
( )5. A. practice
( )6. A. visitor
( )7. A. uncomfortable
( )8. A. want
( )9. A. leave
( )10. A. needed
( )11. A. herself
( )12. A. coming |
B. helpful
B. work out
B. began
B. festivals
B. housework
B. child
B. uninterested
B. hope
B. miss
B. noticed
B. myself
B. sending |
C. exciting
C. find out
C. kept
C. seasons
C. kindness
C. lady
C. unbelievable
C. know
C. have
C. loved
C. ourselves
C. giving |
D. interesting
D. put out
D. loved
D. holidays
D. exercise
D. boy
D. unimportant
D. care
D. hear
D. moved
D. themselves
D. growing |