After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner.
36 woman was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years, but my work had made
37 impossible to visit her very often. That night I called to
38 her to go out for dinner.“What’s wrong? Are you
39 ?”she asked. “I thought that it would be
40 to spend some time with you. Just the two of us,”I answered. She thought about it
41 moment, and agreed.
That Friday after work,
42 I drove to pick her up, I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I
43 that, she, too, seemed to be
44 about our date. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to
45 her last wedding anniversary.
We went to a restaurant that,
46 not elegant, was very nice and cozy. When I read the menu, Mom sat there
47 at me. A nostalgic(怀旧的)smile was
48 her lips. During the dinner, we had a(an)
49 conversation—nothing special but catching up on(了解)recent events of each other’s life.
A few days
50 , my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do
51 for her. Sometime later, I received an envelope with a note
52 “You will never know what that night meant to me. I’m looking forward to the
53 dinner. I love you, Son.”
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time“I LOVE YOU”. Nothing in life is more important than your
54 . Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be
55 till“some other time”.
| 小题1: | | A．Another | B．This other | C．Other | D．Others |
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| 小题3: | | A．force | B．order | C．advise | D．invite |
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| 小题5: | | A．glad | B．pleasant | C．interesting | D．pleased |
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| 小题6: | | A．at the | B．for a | C．in a | D．for the |
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| 小题7: | | A．until | B．after | C．as | D．since |
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| 小题8: | | A．noticed | B．observed | C．watched | D．heard |
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| 小题9: | | A．confused | B．calm | C．nervous | D．easy |
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| 小题10: | | A．congratulate | B．celebrate | C．memorize | D．honor |
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| 小题12: | | A．glancing | B．staring | C．glaring | D．smiling |
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| 小题14: | | A．deep | B．curious | C．agreeable | D．short |
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| 小题15: | | A．later | B．after | C．before | D．ago |
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| 小题16: | | A．anything | B．everything | C．nothing | D．something |
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| 小题17: | | A．writing | B．saying | C．speaking | D．telling |
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| 小题18: | | A．first | B．second | C．last | D．next |
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| 小题19: | | A．mother | B．wife | C．family | D．work |
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| 小题20: | | A．put off | B．taken over | C．cut off | D．picked up |
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