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The young woman was feeling a little down on that Sunday in May. ________, it was Mother's Day ... and 800 miles________ her from her parents in Ohio. She had called her mother that morning to wish her a ________ Mother’s Day, and her mother had mentioned how ________the yard was now that spring had arrived. As they talked, the young woman could ________ smell the peaceful purple lilacs (丁香花) hanging on the big bush outside her parents' back door.
Later, when she mentioned to her husband how she ________ those lilacs, he immediately drove her and two children to a hill ________ with purple lilacs. With a smile, the young woman buried her ________in the flowers, drinking in the sweet smell and the ________ it brought back. And then, carefully, she picked a lilac here, another one there until her arms full of them.
_________, they returned to their car for the trip home. While the kids ________ talk
ed and the man attentively drove, the woman sat with a smile, surrounded by her flowers, a ________ look in her eyes. They stopped at a nursing home, where an elderly ________ was sitting in her wheel-chair, ________, head bowed, her back to most of the other patients. ________, across went the flowers to the old woman. She slowly ________ her head , and smiled.
For a few moments, the two women chatted, and both ________with happiness. As they drove back for home, the kids asked, "Mom, who was that? Why did you give her our flowers? Is she somebody's mother? "
The mother said she didn't know the old woman, ________ it was Mother's Day, and she seemed so lonely, and who wouldn't be________ by flowers? "Besides," she added, "I have all of you, and I still have mother, _____she is faraway. That woman needed those flowers more than I did. "
1.A. Above allB. At leastC. What's moreD. After all
2.A. freedB. tookC. separatedD. blocked
3.A. sadB. happyC. clearD. busy
4.A. colorfulB. largeC. dullD. noisy
5.A. thusB. almostC. simplyD. hardly
6.A. valuedB. forgotC. missedD. respected
7.A. coveredB. filledC. piledD. wrapped
8.A. feetB. faceC. eyesD. mouth
9.A. memoriesB. wishesC. dreamsD. imagination
10.A. SuddenlyB. FinallyC. NaturallyD. Certainly
11.A. impatientlyB. gentlyC. calmlyD. excitedly
12.A. farawayB. lonelyC. tiredD. sleepy
13.A. nurseB. doctorC. patientD. professor
14.A. unfortunateB. satisfiedC. helplessD. alone
15.A. SuddenlyB. HappilyC. HopefullyD. Eventually
16.A. noddedB. shookC. liftedD. touched
17.A.calmed downB. showed offC. came throughD. lit up
18.A. whileB. butC. asD. although
19.A. cheeredB. movedC. encouragedD. surprised
20.A. and yetB. in caseC. even ifD. as though