Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I
across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and
With dust.
to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them
with age, I discovered a new page
unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to
in the army. So his letters were full of frontline
of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was
to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very
. and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a
. kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the
. He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had
to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the
letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying
, "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more
when I handed him the old
. He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he
it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with
read the loving
he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her
.
小题1:A came B. hit C. drew D. fell
| 小题2: | | A．hidden | B．covered | C．buried | D．filled |
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| 小题3: | | A．Pretending | B．Suggesting | C．Preferring | D．Deciding |
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| 小题4: | | A．delicate | B．tasty | C．useful | D．tender |
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| 小题5: | | A．recently | B．usually | C．previously | D．occasionally |
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| 小题6: | | A．work | B．study | C．serve | D．report |
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| 小题7: | | A．accounts | B．documents | C．introductions | D．occupations |
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| 小题8: | | A．devoted | B．abandoned | C．thrown | D．drawn |
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| 小题9: | | A．depressed | B．dead. | C．dangerous | D．ill |
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| 小题10: | | A．typical | B．traditional | C．different | D．familiar |
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| 小题11: | | A．wars | B．illnesses | C．letters | D．prescriptions |
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小题12:A. meant B. intended C, planned D. said
| 小题13: | | A．divided | B．sorted | C．separated | D．updated |
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| 小题14: | | A．sadly | B．angrily | C．softly | D．loudly |
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| 小题15: | | A．curious | B．enthusiastic | C．fantastic | D．positive |
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| 小题16: | | A．Christmas card | B．envelope | C．basket | D．lipstick |
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| 小题17: | | A．found | B．wrote | C．recognized | D．missed |
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| 小题18: | | A．astonishment | B．sorrow | C．sickness | D．emotion |
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| 小题19: | | A．story | B．message | C．speech | D．motto |
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| 小题20: | | A．in person | B．in private | C．in danger | D．in peace |
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