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Mother's Day was coming, but Joh
n had been visiting customers.He was now in a small town just outside a flower shop and he knew what to do.
He went into the shop and saw a young man__
1__the clerk to sell him some roses for six dollars, but the clerk just explained that roses were__
2__.
The clerk looked up at John, __
3__her head.Something inside of John was__
4__by the boy's voice.
John had been__
5__in his business, and he looked at the clerk and__
6__mouthed that he would pay for the roses.
The clerk looked at the young man and told him to get the roses fo
r six dollars.The young man almost
jumped into the__
7__and ran from the store with the__
8__.It was worth the extra dollars just to see that
kind of__
9__.
John ordered his own flowers and made sure that the__
10__would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her.He drove away from the shop, feeling very__
11__.He caught a light about two blocks
away.As he__
12__at the light, he saw the young boy walking down the sidewalk.He watched him cross the street and enter a park through two huge gates.Suddenly, he__
13__that it wasn't a park but a
cemetery (公墓).
The light__
14__, and John slowly crossed the intersection.He__
15__and on an impulse (冲动) got out
and began to follow the boy.The young man stopped by a small monument and went to his__
16__.He
began to cry after he carefully__
17__the roses on the grave.He stared at the little boy's heaving (起伏的)
body and listened to his crying.
John turned with__
18__, and walked back to his car.He drove__
19__to the shop and told the clerk he would__
20__the flowers personally.He wanted to tell his mother one more time just how much he loved
her.
( )1. A. begging ( )2. A. cheap ( )3. A. shaking ( )4. A. recalled ( )5. A. influenced ( )6. A. loudly ( )7. A. river ( )8. A. money ( )9. A. surprise ( )10. A. delivery ( )11. A. relaxed ( )12. A. sang ( )13. A. remembered ( )14. A. flashed ( )15. A. drove back ( )16. A. arms ( )17. A. laid ( )18. A. laughter ( )19. A. slowly ( )20. A. bring |
B. ordering B. beautiful B. waving B. touched B. ruined B. silently B. air B. flowers B. horror B. message B. disappointed B. waited B. found B. changed B. pulled over B. palms B. decorated B. anger B. quickly B. fetch |
C. forcing C. expensive C. nodding C. hurt C. buried C. gently C. lake C. basket C. excitement C. transportation C. good C. looked C. discovered C. disappeared C. broke down C. feet C. set C. tears C. carefully C. take |
D. urging D. special D. holding D. lightened D. blessed D. calmly D. hole D. cards D. sadness D. transfer D. sorry D. stood D. realized D. shone D. burst out D. knees D. grew D. astonishment D. excitedly D. catch |