A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a
16 , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it
17 from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles,
18 everywhere. I tried to use a broom,
19 with each swipe they just rolled across the kitchen．
For the next week, every time I was in the
20 , I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept
21 . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and
22 12 frozen peas hidden underneath．
At the time I found those few remaining
23 , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful
24 I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded
25 those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my
26 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
27 his new surroundings and the
28 of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered．
When life gets you
29 , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never
30 , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be
31 , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas
32 , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them
33 you’ll start to feel whole again．
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to
34 , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,
35 will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
| 小题1: | | A．drink | B．fruit | C．vegetable | D．meat |
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| 小题2: | | A．moved | B．walked | C．ran | D．slipped |
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| 小题3: | | A．rubbed | B．rolled | C．grew | D．existed |
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| 小题4: | | A．but | B．and | C．although | D．so |
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| 小题5: | | A．bedroom | B．living room | C．kitchen | D．storeroom |
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| 小题6: | | A．getting up | B．turning up | C．taking up | D．using up |
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| 小题7: | | A．found | B．ate | C．left | D．planted |
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| 小题8: | | A．presents | B．cans | C．vegetables | D．peas |
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| 小题9: | | A．man | B．child | C．woman | D．boy |
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| 小题11: | | A．wife | B．life | C．son | D．friend |
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| 小题12: | | A．turning to | B．leading to | C．adjusting to | D．adding to |
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| 小题13: | | A．thank | B．love | C．help | D．loss |
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| 小题14: | | A．down | B．near | C．close | D．wide |
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| 小题15: | | A．get it | B．make it | C．take it | D．leave it |
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| 小题16: | | A．grew | B．bought | C．collected | D．frozen |
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| 小题17: | | A．eventually | B．fortunately | C．properly | D．specially |
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| 小题18: | | A．both | B．all | C．either | D．each |
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| 小题19: | | A．call on | B．put on | C．bring on | D．move on |
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| 小题20: | | A．while | B．because | C．since | D．or |
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