完形填空
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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 might be. Some of my happiest
4 were spent
daydreaming 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 |