Question

Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I   36   across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and   37   with dust. Deciding to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They   38  .

As I carefully opened each letter,   39  of them fragile with age, I discovered a new page 40   unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.

My father used to   41   in the army. So his letters were full of frontline   42   of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was   43   to these letters like a magnet（磁铁）.

Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very   44   and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a   45   kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the   46  . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had   47  to him when he had been so far from home.

It so happened that the next day would be February 14. From the   48   letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.

At his bedside, I joked with him, saying   49  , "Today is Valentine's Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?" He became more   50   when I handed him the old   51  . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he   52   it, his eyes were filled with tears.

My father, in a   53   tight with emotion (情感) read the loving message he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years   54  . And this time, he could read it to her in   55  .

36. A. came                  B. hit                               C. drew                        D. fell

37. A. hidden                B. covered                       C. buried                      D. filled

38. A. refused            B. smiled                         C. shocked                   D. agreed

39. A. all                    B. none                             C. both                         D. neither

40. A. recently                     B. usually                        C. previously                D. occasionally

41. A. work                  B. study                            C. serve                       D. report

42. A. accounts             B. documents                     C. introductions            D. occupations

43. A. devoted               B. addicted                        C. thrown                     D. drawn

44. A. sad                     B. dead                              C. dangerous                D. ill      

45. A. typical                B. traditional                      C. different                   D. familiar

46. A. wars                   B. illnesses                         C. letters                      D. hospitals

47. A. meant                 B. intended                        C. planned                    D. said

48. A. divided                B. sorted                           C. separated                  D. updated

49. A. sadly                  B. angrily                           C. softly                       D. loudly

50. A. curious               B. enthusiastic                    C. fantastic                   D. positive

51. A. card                   B. envelope                        C. basket                      D. lipstick

52. A. found                 B. wrote                            C. recognized                D. missed

53. A. sound              B. noise                             C. whisper                    D. voice

54. A. later                    B. earlier                          C. ago                       D. ahead

55. A. person             B. private                         C. danger                            D. peace

 

Answer 1

36—40 ABDAC        41—45 CADDC        46—50 CABCA         51—55 BCDBA