【题目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it.)
I don’t remember ever slamming my door 【1】 anger at her and shouting, “You just don’t understand!” Because she did understand.
One month before my high-school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment, fear and over-whelming anger that my dad was missing some of 【2】(important) events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, the senior-class play and the prom. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, 【3】 not hear of my skipping any of those things.
The day before my father died, my mother and I 【4】 (go) shopping for a prom dress. We’d found a spectacular one, with yards of dotted Swiss in red, white and blue. 【5】 made me feel like Scarlett O’ Hara, but it was the wrong size. When my father died, I forgot the dress.
My mother didn’t. The day before the prom, I found that dress – in the right size – draped majestically over the living room sofa. It 【6】(present) to me – beautifully, artistically, lovingly. I didn’t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel 【7】 (love) and lovable, creative and imaginative, imbued with a sense【8】 there was magic in the world and beauty in the face of adversity. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see 【9】 much like the gardenia – lovely, strong and perfect – with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after I was married, I was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped 【10】 (come).
