1 . A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a
____, I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it
____ from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles,
____ everywhere. I tried to use a broom,
____ with each swipe they just rolled across the kitchen．
For the next week, every time I was in the
____, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept
____ Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and
____ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath．
At the time I found those few remaining
____, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful
____ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded
____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my
____ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered（破碎. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble
____ his new surroundings and the
____ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered．
When life gets you
____, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never
____, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be
____, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas
____, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them
____ you’ll start to feel whole again．
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to
____, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,
____ will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
1. | A．drink | B．fruit | C．vegetable | D．meat |
2. | A．moved | B．walked | C．ran | D．slipped |
3. | A．rubbed | B．rolled | C．grew | D．existed |
4. 5. | A．bedroom | B．living room | C．kitchen | D．storeroom |
6. | A．getting up | B．turning up | C．taking up | D．using up |
7. | A．found | B．ate | C．left | D．planted |
8. | A．presents | B．cans | C．vegetables | D．peas |
9. 10. 11. | A．wife | B．life | C．son | D．friend |
12. | A．turning to | B．leading to | C．adjusting to | D．adding to |
13. | A．thank | B．love | C．help | D．loss |
14. | A．down | B．near | C．close | D．wide |
15. | A．get it | B．make it | C．take it | D．leave it |
16. | A．grew | B．bought | C．collected | D．frozen |
17. | A．eventually | B．fortunately | C．properly | D．specially |
18. | A．both | B．all | C．either | D．each |
19. | A．call on | B．put on | C．bring on | D．move on |
20. | A．while | B．because | C．since | D．or |
