1 . When I was nine years old, I used to go to the post office with my mother, sending greeting cards to my aunt in Singapore. To me, these trips were really ______ memories. And receiving mail through a mailbox outside our gate was just as exciting. My small hands could ______ get the mail without using a key! I always couldn’t wait to see how much I was ______. Oh, a letter! From Singapore! I would run back home and show it to my ______. When there was a letter for me, I wouldn’t run—I would open it right there.
After my family moved back to Singapore, I ______ going to the post office. Years later, my company sent me to Shanghai, and the post office found me again. Two years ago I celebrated my ______ with five friends on top of the mountain in Longsheng, China. At sunrise we ______ up to enjoy a beautiful view from the mountain top. Later in the afternoon, as we were going ______ the mountain and returning from the sunrise viewing place, a ______ shop caught our attention. It only sold noodles, coffee and had a China ______ sign.
We asked the owner if she could really send mail. She happily said yes. It seemed hard to believe ______ we were at the highest top of the mountain. I picked one postcard out and asked my friends to write ______ a birthday note. We bought a stamp, wrote some notes and gave the shop owner the postcard.
Three weeks later, I arrived home and ______ my mailbox. Hello, postcard! I broke into a big smile.
That birthday postcard attracted me again to the post office and all its delights. I had ______ the post office all these years. Today I ______ send postcards to friends. And every time I am at the post office buying stamps, I cannot help but smile—how one postcard will make its way across the world and brighten up someone’s day.
1. 2. | A．easily | B．simply | C．hardly | D．specially |
3. | A．weighing | B．getting | C．looking | D．going |
4. | A．friend | B．aunt | C．mother | D．owner |
5. | A．enjoyed | B．stopped | C．hated | D．considered |
6. | A．wedding | B．return | C．success | D．birthday |
7. | A．broke | B．woke | C．grew | D．stood |
8. 9. | A．cold | B．dirty | C．small | D．modern |
10. | A．Traffic | B．Life | C．Police | D．Post |
11. | A．because | B．though | C．while | D．when |
12. 13. | A．bought | B．repaired | C．painted | D．opened |
14. | A．missed | B．influenced | C．studied | D．visited |
15. | A．just | B．seldom | C．still | D．never |
