2 . Never had a lovely sunflower been absent to my house on my birthday, since I turned 13. No cards or notes in it. Calls to the flower shop were always ________—it was a cash purchase.
I never stopped ________ who the mysterious giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful but too shy to disclose his or her ________.
My mother even ________ my imaginations. She’d ask me if there was someone who I had done a special favor and then might be showing ________ As a teenager, ________, I had more fun assuming that it might be a boy I had ________ secretly.
When I was 17, I failed ________ in a significant test. That night when the result came. I just ________ myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning, my mother ________, “Don’t be discouraged! It’s not a big deal!” Yet, I remembered ________ out of the house at that time, yelling… “You just don’t understand!”
One month before my graduation from high school, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from pain to ________ so that I became completely uninterested in the upcoming ceremony. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, would deny my ________ any of those things. Before my father died, we had shopped a party dress which made me feel like a(an) ________ Cinderella (灰姑娘). But it was the ________ size. Later I totally forgot about the dress.
My mother didn’t. The day before the dance, I found that ________, in the right size, ________ in the box to me gracefully and lovingly. She just ________ her child to feel loved and showed that there still existed magic and ________ even in the face of hardships.
Actually, my mother passed away one week after I got married. That year the adorable sunflower never ________.
1. A.in charge | B.in private | C.in advance | D.in vain |
2. A.calculating | B.convincing | C.declaring | D.admiring |
3. A.address | B.presence | C.identity | D.proof |
4. A.objected to | B.contributed to | C.subscribed to | D.referred to |
5. A.appreciation | B.assistance | C.applause | D.account |
6. A.therefore | B.otherwise | C.though | D.moreover |
7. A.loved | B.warned | C.disliked | D.punished |
8. A.unavoidably | B.sincerely | C.particularly | D.unexpectedly |
9. A.forced | B.devoted | C.applied | D.allowed |
10. A.doubted | B.laughed | C.comforted | D.admitted |
11. A.pacing | B.moving | C.wandering | D.rushing |
12. A.tiredness | B.abandonment | C.treatment | D.annoyance |
13. A.accepting | B.skipping | C.grasping | D.interrupting |
14. A.ordinary | B.imaginative | C.awesome | D.original |
15. A.wrong | B.big | C.proper | D.measurable |
16. A.Cinderella | B.boy | C.dress | D.sunflower |
17. A.delivered | B.paid | C.awarded | D.thrown |
18. A.told | B.ordered | C.reminded | D.wanted |
19. A.attraction | B.beauty | C.potential | D.means |
20. A.faded | B.developed | C.bloomed | D.emerged |