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The day finally came, when I had to leave the warm home where I'd grown up. I ran to the back yard, as tears came up from my heart. Suddenly I  1  a hand rest on my shoulder. I looked up to  2  my
grandfather. ''It isn't  3  , is it, Billy?'' he said softly.
Gently   4  my hand in his, we walked, hand in hand, to the front yard,  5  a huge red rose-bush sat alone.
''What do you see here, Billy?'' he asked. I looked at the flowers, not knowing  6  to say, and then
answered,''I see something soft and   7  , grandpa.''
He pulled me  8  . ''It isn't just the roses that are beautiful, Billy. It's that special place in your heart
that makes them so.'' ''Billy, I   9  these roses when my first son was born. It was my  10  of saying
'thank you' to God. I  11  to watch him pick roses for his mother. Then, as a young man of only 20, a
terrible war robbed him of his life.'' Grandpa slowly stood up. ''Never say good-bye, Billy. Never  12 
to the sadness and the loneliness. Instead, I want you to remember the joy and the  13  when you first
said hello to a friend.''
A year later, my grandpa became very  14  . Then all members of the family
were  15  back, and I returned to the old house. When it came to my  16  , I took his hand as  17  as
he had once taken mine.
''Hello, grandpa,'' I  18  . His eyes slowly opened and said, ''Hello, my friend.'' With a brief  19  he
died. Suddenly, and truly, I knew what he had  20  about never saying good-bye - about refusing to give
in to sadness.
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(     )2. A. watch
(     )3. A. difficult
(     )4. A. making
(     )5. A. where
(     )6. A. what
(     )7. A. red
(     )8. A. close
(     )9. A. bought
(     )10. A. approach
(     )11. A. preferred
(     )12. A. give up
(     )13. A. word
(     )14. A. ill
(     )15. A. ordered
(     )16. A. pleasure
(     )17. A. happily
(     )18. A. laughed
(     )19. A. sign
(     )20. A. thought

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