完形填空。
After years of marriage, I started to go out with another woman.
"You love her," my wife said. "I love you," I
1 . "But you also love her."
The other woman was my
2 , a widow for 19 years, but my work and my three children had made it
3 to visit her only occasionally. That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a
4 . "What's wrong,
are you OK?" she asked. My mother is the woman who suspects a(n)
5 night call or a surprise invitation is
a sign of bad news. "Just want to pass some time with you," I
6 . "Two of us!" She thought about it for a
moment, then said OK.
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit
7 . When arriving, I noticed that she,
too, was nervous about our
8 . She smiled like an angel. "I told it to my friends and they were
9 ," she said,
"They can't wait to hear about our meeting."
We went to a restaurant. My mother took my
10 as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had
to read the menu. Her eyes were bad and could only read large
11 . "I read the menu when you were small,"
she said. "Then it's time that you should relax and let me return the
12 ," I responded.
We had an agreeable conversation, nothing extraordinary but each other's
13 . We talked so much that we
missed the movie. As we arrived at her house
14 , she said, "I wish I could go out with you again. I agreed
15 ."
A few
16 later my mother died of a serious heart attack. It
17 so suddenly that I didn't have a chance to
do anything for her. At that moment I understood the importance of
18 in time:"I LOVE YOU" and to give
our loved ones the time that they
19 .
Nothing in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they deserve, because these things
cannot be
20 till "some other time".
( )1. A. debated
( )2. A. mother
( )3. A. necessary
( )4. A. tea
( )5. A. early
( )6. A. responded
( )7. A. disappointed
( )8. A. date
( )9. A. interested
( )10. A. hand
( )11. A. menus
( )12. A. benefit
( )13. A. wife
( )14. A. later
( )15. A. meaningful
( )16. A. years
( )17. A. took
( )18. A. showing
( )19. A. deserve
( )20. A. put on |
B. quarreled
B. sister
B. important
B. movie
B. late
B. argued
B. excited
B. arrival
B. shocked
B. shoulder
B. print
B. favor
B. husband
B. lastly
B. carelessly
B. minutes
B. appeared
B. saying
B. enjoy
B. put down |
C. protested
C. daughter
C. impossible
C. coffee
C. warm
C. defended
C. nervous
C. secret
C. surprised
C. arm
C. notes
C. wrongs
C. retirement
C. finally
C. happily
C. days
C. seemed
C. sending
C. think
C. put up |
D. refused
D. grandmother
D. possible
D. chat
D. present
D. acted
D. unhappy
D. problem
D. impressed
D. finger
D. letters
D. behavior
D. life
D. suddenly
D. mindlessly
D. decades
D. happened
D. hearing
D. share
D. put off |