Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (栀子花) was _________to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always _________— it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just _________in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower lying in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped _________who the giver might be. My mother _________to these imaginations. She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing _________. I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had a _________on me even though I didn’t know him.
One month before my high-school graduation, my father died. My feelings _________from sorrow to fear and anger: my dad was _________some of the most important events in my life. I became completely __________in my coming graduation, the senior-class play and the ball. But my mother would not hear of my losing any of those things. Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress, but it was the __________size. When my father died, I forgot about the dress.
The day before my ball, I found that dress — in the right size — hanging over the living room sofa. It was __________to me so lovingly. I didn’t __________if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel __________, filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of __________.
My mother died ten days after I was married. The following year the gardenia stopped coming.
1.A.given | B.delivered | C.taken | D.brought |
2.A.useful | B.helpful | C.in vain | D.in hope |
3.A.delighted | B.imagined | C.enjoyed | D.satisfied |
4.A.considering | B.remembering | C.imagining | D.recalling |
5.A.referred | B.led | C.preferred | D.contributed |
6.A.appreciation | B.honor | C.kindness | D.respect |
7.A.love | B.hate | C.crush | D.look |
8.A.ranged | B.differed | C.suffered | D.judged |
9.A.ignoring | B.attending | C.abandoning | D.missing |
10.A.unsurprised | B.uninterested | C.exhausted | D.pleased |
11.A.wrong | B.false | C.proper | D.right |
12.A.provided | B.presented | C.introduced | D.awarded |
13.A.doubt | B.wonder | C.desire | D.care |
14.A.loving | B.loved | C.relaxing | D.relaxed |
15.A.trouble | B.confusion | C.boredom | D.sorrow |