Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a bunch of white flowers was 1 to my house in Bethesda, Maryland. 2 card or note came with it. Calls to the flower store were always 3 - it was a cash purchase. After a while I 4 trying to discover the sender’s identity and just delighted in the beauty and perfume of that magical, perfect white flowers packed 5 soft pink paper. But I 6 stopped imagining who the mysterious giver might be. Some of my 7 moments were spent in day dreams about someone wonderful and exciting but too 8 to make known his or her identity. My mother contributed to these imaginings. She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special 9 who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I’d helped when she was 10 a car full of groceries. Or maybe, it was the old man across the street whose mail I’d helped to fetch during the winter so he 11 have to risk going down his 12 steps. As a teenager, though, I had more 13 guessing that it might be a boy I was in love with or someone who had noticed me even though I didn’t 14 his name. When I was 17, a boy broke my 15 . The night he called for me the last time, I cried myself to 16 . When I awoke the next morning, there was a 17 written on my mirror in red lipstick: “Heartily know when half – gods go, the gods arrive.” I thought about that saying from Emerson for a long time, and I left it 18 my mother had written it until my heart 19 . When I finally went for the glass cleaner, my mother knew 20 was all right again. 1.A.delivered B.sold C.grown D.carried 20080531 2.A.The B.A C.Either D.No 3.A.in surprise B.in return C.in need D.in vain 4.A.started B.stopped C.kept D.continued 5.A.by B.in C.of D.for 6.A.even B.ever C.never D.usually 7.A.loneliest B.happiest C.darkest D.hardest 8.A.shy B.busy C.tired D.forgetful 9.A.kindness B.request C.politeness D.performance 10.A.repairing B.buying C.pulling D.unloading 11.A.shouldn’t B.couldn’t C.wouldn’t D.mustn’t 12.A.high B.icy C.wide D.long 13.A.hope B.fun C.time D.mind 14.A.miss B.call C.write D.know 15.A.promise B.glasses C.heart D.mirror 16.A.sleep B.stay C.think D.wait 17.A.sign B.word C.notice D.message 18.A.how B.after C.where D.when 19.A.recovered B.changed C.beat D.jumped 20.A.nothing B.something C.everything D.anything
答案: 1~5 ADDBB 6~10 CBAAD 11~15 CBBDC 16~20 ADCAC