题目内容
card came with it. Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover
the sender's name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent
daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She'd ask me if there was someone
for whom I had done special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I'd delivered
during the winter. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died, I felt so sad that I became completely uninterested in
my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn't care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own
sadness would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth,
my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with
perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
B. A Mother's Love
C. A Graduation Party
D. A Special Birthday
B. Because she have more fun imagining.
C. Because the sender give a girl happiest moments.
D. Because she try to discover the sender's name.
B. she hoped she would find a boyfriend
C. she wanted her to be happy and strong
D. she thought education was most important
B. One of the writer's neighbors.
C. One of the writer's classmates.
D. The writer's mother.
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