完形填空。
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house.
No card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always useless - it was a cash
1 . After a
while I stopped trying to
2 who the sender was and just delighted in the beautiful and perfume of the
white flower. But I never
3 imagining who the sender might be. Some of my
4 moments were spent
daydreaming about it.
My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(an)
5 kindness who might
be showing
6 . Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was
7 a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was
the old man across the street whose mail I helped to get during the
8 so he wouldn't have to venture
down his icy step. As a teenager, though I had more fun guessing that it might be a
9 who had noticede
even though I didn't know him.
One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was missing some
of the most important events in my life. I became completely
10 in my upcoming graduation and the
dance. When my father died, I
11 the dance and the dress for it. The day before the dance, I found a
dress on the sofa. I didn't
12 if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did.
She wanted her children to feel
13 and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a
14 in the
world and beauty in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much
like the gardenia -lovely,
15 and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died.
( )1. A. service ( )2. A. recognize ( )3. A. failed ( )4. A. saddest ( )5. A. special ( )6. A. concern ( )7. A. repairing ( )8. A. spring ( )9. A. friend ( )10. A. disappointed ( )11. A. forgot ( )12. A. wonder ( )13. A. contented ( )14. A. trouble ( )15. A. strong |
B. deal B. imagine B. stopped B. painful B. common B. attitude B. washing B. summer B. superman B. uninterested B. lost B. believe B. respected B. magic B. beautiful |
C. bargain C. wonder C. succeeded C. happiest C. valuable C. interest C. unloading C. autumn C. teacher C. discouraged C. hated C. care C. thanked C. tragedy C. smelly |
D. offer D. discover D. enjoyed D. loneliest D. important D. appreciation D. starting D. winter D. boy D. concentrated D. expected D. know D. loved D. comedy D. lucky |