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It was a beautiful spring day, and a sense of peace stayed with me as I left the cathedral (大教堂) on
Easter Monday morning. I
1 for a moment on top of the steps leading to the avenue, now
2 with
people rushing to their jobs. Sitting in her
3 place, inside a small archway (拱门), was the old flower
lady. At her
4 , dresses and flowers were parading (炫耀) on top of a spread-open newspaper.
The flower lady was
5 , her wrinkled old face alive with some inner
6 . I started down the stairs-
then on an impulse (冲动), I turned and
7 a flower.
As I put it in my lapel (翻领), I said, "You look
8 ."
"Why not?' she answered. "Everything is good."
She was dressed so
9 and seemed so very old that her reply
10 me. "You've been sitting here for
many
11 now, haven't you? And always smiling. You wear your
12 well."
"You can't
13 my age and not have troubles," she
14 , "only it's like Jesus and Good Friday..." She
paused for a moment.
"Yes?"
"Well, when Jesus was killed-on Good Friday, that was the
15 day for the whole world. When I get
troubles I remember that,
16 then I think of what happened only three days
17 Easter-our Lord arose
from the dead. So when things
18 , I've learned to wait three days...and
19 everything gets much better."
She smiled good-bye, but her words still follow me
20 think I have troubles..."Give God a chance to
help. Wait three days."
( )1. A. paused ( )2. A. dirty ( )3. A. favorite ( )4. A. side ( )5. A. talking ( )6. A. joy ( )7. A. looked for ( )8. A. old ( )9. A. neatly ( )10. A. amused ( )11. A. weeks ( )12. A. clothes ( )13. A. sense ( )14. A. replied ( )15. A. first ( )16. A. but ( )17. A. before ( )18. A. go wrong ( )19. A. somewhat ( )20. A. wherever |
B. walked B. clean B. proper B. feet B. smiling B. feeling B. picked out B. smart B. properly B. amazed B. years B. flowers B. imagine B. asked B. last B. and B. later B. take place B. somewhere B. whatever |
C. landed C. crowded C. small C. back C. selling C. thought C. stared at C. young C. shabbily C. caught C. months C. hat C. reach C. yelled C. important C. so C. ago C. turn up C. somehow C. whenever |
D. sat D. wide D. usual D. bike D. waiting D. worries D. put off D. happy D. casually D. reached D. days D. troubles D. notice D. talked back D. worst D. or D. earlier D. get well D. nowhere D. whichever |