Question

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

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

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

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

      It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the        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      , "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more            when I handed him the old        . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he       it, his eyes were filled with tears.

      My father, in a voice tight with       read the loving         he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her          .

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

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

3.A. Pretending         B. Suggesting      C. Preferring             D. Deciding

4.A. delicate           B. tasty            C. useful                D. tender     

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

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

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

8.A. devoted           B. abandoned        C. thrown                D. drawn

9.A. depressed          B. dead.            C. dangerous              D.ill

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

11.A. wars             B. illnesses          C. letters                 D. prescriptions

12.A. meant            B. intended          C, planned                D. said

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

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

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

16.A. Christmas card  B. envelope           C. basket                  D. lipstick

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

18.A. astonishment  B. sorrow             C. sickness                 D. emotion    

19.A. story          B. message            C. speech                  D. motto

20.A. in person      B. in private           C. in danger                 D. in peace  

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.A

5.C

6.C

7.A

8.D

9.D

10.C

11.C

12.A

13.B

14.C

15.A

16.B

17.C

18.D

19.B

20.A

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述作者发现父母以前来往的信件，在阅读整理的过程中，作者了解以前不知道的父母的生活，很受感动，而且在父亲生病的时候，还让他重温了以前的时光。

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