A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a
11 , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it
12 from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles(弹珠),
13 everywhere. I tried to use a broom(扫帚),
14 with each sweep, they just rolled across the kitchen.
For the next week, every time I was in the
15 , I found a pea——in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept
16 . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and
17__ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath．
At the time I found those few remaining
18 , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful
__19 I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded
20 those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my
21 had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had scattered(分散). My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble
22 his new surroundings and the
23 of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you
24 , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never
25 , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be
26 , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas
27 , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them
28 you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to
29 , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,
30 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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