After 21 years of marriage, I discovered a new way of keeping the spark (火花) of love alive. I started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife’s
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The other woman that my
27 wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow (寡妇) for 19 years, but the
28 of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her only
29 . That night I called to invite her to go out for
30 and a movie. “What’s wrong, are you
31 ?” she asked. My mother is the type of woman who
32 that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news. “I thought that it would be
33 to pass some time with you,” I responded. “Just the
34 of us.” She thought about it for a moment, then said, “I would like that very much.”
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and
35 . My mother took my arm
36 she were the First Lady. During the dinner we had an agreeable
37 — nothing extraordinary — but
38 recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we
39 the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll
40 with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed. “How was your dinner
41 ?” asked my wife when I got home. “Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined,” I answered.
A few days later my mother
42 a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do 43 for her. At that moment I
44 the importance of saying in time “I LOVE YOU” and giving our loved ones the time that they
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| 小题1: | | A．thought | B．belief | C．idea | D．opinion |
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| 小题2: | | A．father | B．children | C．mother | D．wife |
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| 小题3: | | A．demands | B．pleasures | C．anxieties | D．commands |
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| 小题4: | | A．unusually | B．frequently | C．occasionally | D．immediately |
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| 小题5: | | A．dinner | B．a walk | C．some fresh air | D．a while |
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| 小题7: | | A．guesses | B．imagines | C．supposes | D．suspects |
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| 小题8: | | A．necessary | B．pleasant | C．proper | D．possible |
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| 小题10: | | A．cheap | B．comfortable | C．cool | D．tasty |
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| 小题11: | | A．in case | B．now that | C．as if | D．so that |
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| 小题12: | | A．trouble | B．conversation | C．silence | D．experiment |
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| 小题13: | | A．catching up on | B．finding out | C．making sure | D．working out |
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| 小题14: | | A．missed | B．enjoyed | C．remembered | D．watched |
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| 小题15: | | A．eat out | B．go out | C．run out | D．keep out |
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| 小题16: | | A．party | B．dance | C．hour | D．date |
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| 小题17: | | A．heard of | B．suffered from | C．died of | D．recovered from |
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| 小题18: | | A．nothing | B．anything | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题19: | | A．accepted | B．doubted | C．considered | D．understood |
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| 小题20: | | A．win | B．deserve | C．spend | D．waste |
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