My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that
21 men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them,
22 , who to trust, how to care for others and how to live life
23 the fullest.
Recently, John lost his
24 Janet. For eight years she fought against cancer, but in the end her sickness had the last
25 . One day John took out a folded piece of
26 from his wallet. He had found it, so he told me, when he
27 up some drawers at home.
It was a
28 love letter Janet had written. The note could look like a school girl’s scrawls(潦草地写，乱涂) about her dream guy.
29 the letter was written by a woman who had had seven children, a woman who fought for her life and who
30 only had a few months left to live.
It was
31 a beautiful recipe (处方，食谱) for how to keep a marriage together. Janet’s
32 of her husband begins like this, “Loved me. Took care of me. Worried about me.”
“Helped me when I was ill.” The next
33 reads. After that she turned
34 the paper and added “Warmth. Humor. Kindness. Thoughtfulness.” And then she writes about the husband she has
35 with and loved most in her life. “
36 there when I needed you.” The last words she wrote
37 all the others. I can see her for me when she added thoughtfully “Good friend.”
I stand beside John now, and cannot pretend to know how it feels to lose someone who is as close to
38 as Janet was to him. I need to
39 what he has to say much more than he needs to talk.
“John,” I ask. “How do you stick together with someone through 38 years—not to mention the sickness? How do I know
40 I can bear to stand by my wife’s side if she becomes sick one day?”
“You can.” he says quietly, “ If you love her enough, you can.”
| 小题1: | | A．old | B．wise | C．young | D．foolish |
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| 小题2: | | A．for instance | B．at no time | C．in that case | D．as a matter of fact |
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| 小题4: | | A．friend | B．colleague | C．wife | D．sister |
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| 小题5: | | A．possibility | B．chance | C．hope | D．word |
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| 小题6: | | A．handkerchief | B．cloth | C．leather | D．paper |
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| 小题7: | | A．fixed | B．looked | C．tidied | D．put |
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| 小题8: | | A．small | B．long | C．descriptive | D．talkative |
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| 小题10: | | A．probably | B．surely | C．certainly | D．definitely |
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| 小题11: | | A．only | B．firstly | C．lastly | D．also |
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| 小题12: | | A．imagination | B．description | C．dream | D．expectation |
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| 小题13: | | A．letter | B．note | C．line | D．paragraph |
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| 小题15: | | A．lived | B．dealt | C．quarreled | D．argued |
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| 小题16: | | A．Constantly | B．Always | C．Never | D．Seldom |
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| 小题17: | | A．take the place of | B．get rid of | C．take away | D．sum up |
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| 小题19: | | A．speak up | B．repeat | C．discuss | D．hear |
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