Mygrandmother'seightiethbirthdaywasapproachingandIwasat...

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My grandmother's eightieth birthday was approaching and I was at a loss as to what to give her. She had recently moved into a nursing home and didn’t have room for   _36   _ things. She insisted that she didn’t need a thing.

    _37  , I came up with an idea. In her   _38   _ card, I sent her a gift certificate (禮券) for “A letter a   _39   _ for the next year!” It was a big_   40_   . I knew that she’d love to   _41   _ what was going on in my life.

The letter gift certificate was a big                42___. She got fifty-two letters that first year. Some were   43    and filled with homesickness. Others were short and newsy. More than once what she    _44       was just a funny card with a few

short   _45     . All showed her that I was thinking of her regularly.

    _46   her next birthday came around, she asked for another letter gift certificate.      47    , that’s also what she wanted next eight birthdays.

For nine years I wrote her. She was rarely able to    _48                back. I flew home annually to   _49   _ and soon realized that the entire nursing home staff knew all the details of my         50   _, as more and more often they were    _51   _ the letters to her.

My       52      letter arrived the day after her death. I felt I had given her the best gift I could. What I hadn’t counted on (指望) was how her gift would come full circle to me.

Months later, while   _53   _ her things, my dad found a box full of letters

from me. Those letters were filled with moments and pictures I had completely forgotten. She 54_   those memories for me in my letters. Sometimes our gifts to others come back to us in    _55       ways.

21.    A. lovely                  B. expensive                   C. extra                         D. unimportant

22.    A. Finally                 B. Hopefully                  C. Fortunately                D. Surprisingly

23.    A. invitation             B. Christmas                  C. greeting                     D. birthday

24.    A. month                 B. week                         C. day                           D. season

25.    A. lie                       B. deal                           C. problem                     D. promise

26.    A. face                    B. feel                           C. hear                          D. tell

27.    A. joke                    B. hit                             C. mistake                      D. challenge

28.    A. long                    B. boring                       C. interesting                  D. formal

29.    A. sold                     B. sent                           C. received                     D. held

30.    A. notes                   B. questions                   C. tips                           D. lines

31.    A. Although              B. As                             C. If                              D. Unless

32.    A. In fact                 B. In general                  C. After all                     D. Above all

33.    A. turn                    B. write                         C. step                           D. look

34.    A. work                   B. hunt                          C. visit                           D. cook

35.    A. life                      B. husband                     C. vacation                     D. business

36.    A. writing                 B. sending                      C. handing                     D. reading

37.    A. short                   B. handwriting                C. open                         D. last

38.    A. seeing throughB. going through                   C. throwing away            D. taking away

39.    A. saved                  B. lost                           C. broke                        D. refreshed

40.    A. practical               B. funny                        C. unexpected                 D. similar

【回答】

36-40 CADBD               41-45 CBACD               46-50 BABCA                51-55 DDBAC

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