23–year–old Ann is a traditional working class woman who is happily married to her husband Don and who has given birth to two lovely daughters Patsy and Penny. Ann   1   her work with her colleague Laurie because they can   2   to each other while cleaning the buildings their work requires them to. One   3   thing about Ann is that she listens to recordings of foreign languages – Spanish, French, even Chinese   4   driving, even working. In Laurie’s eye, Ann is not normal, but Ann   5  that nobody is normal; everyone is different in   6  way. Laurie’s specific problem is not an unusual one: the   7  between a strong appetite for food and an equally strong   8   to keep in shape by dieting. She envies Ann who   9   slim while seeming to eat as much as she likes.

In fact, this characteristic is   10 . One morning,   11   after Don has taken the kids to school Ann   12   just as she is herself about to go work. She is   13   by her divorced mother, who stays alongside her as they rush to   14   and rush through examinations.

The doctor discovers that there are tumors （肿瘤） in both her ovaries （卵巢）.   15   can be done about the cancer. Ann   16   from the doctor that she has only two or three months to   17  .

Shaken   18   Ann is by this news, she decides not to tell her mom and husband, and to go on living as if nothing has happened.   19  in a café, Ann begins to write down all the things she   20  to do before her death:

“1．Tell my daughters several times a day that I love them;

2．Find Don a new wife who the girls like;

3．Record Birthday Messages for the girls for every year until they are 18;

4．Go to Whale bay Beach together and have a big picnic;

5．Smoke and drink as much as I want;

6．Say just what I’m thinking;

7．Go and see Dad in jail.

….”

1．A．shares                   B．spares                 C．enjoys                 D．completes

2．A．talk                       B．work                   C．affect                  D．help

3．A．ordinary                B．strange                C．special                D．perfect

4．A．although                B．until                    C．unless                 D．while

5．A．insists                   B．disagrees             C．imagines              D．hopes

6．A．his                        B．some                   C．any                     D．no

7．A．relation                 B．struggle               C．difference            D．fight

8．A．desire                   B．difficulty             C．design                 D．delight

9．A．shocks                  B．remains               C．realizes                D．becomes

10．A．abstract               B．attractive             C．abnormal             D．absolute

11．A．only                    B．even                    C．ever                    D．just

12．A．blacks out           B．turns out             C．makes out           D．comes out

13．A．brought               B．discovered           C．taken                  D．ordered

14．A．garage                 B．college                C．school                 D．hospital

15．A．Everything           B．Something           C．Anything             D．Nothing

16．A．informs               B．learns                  C．takes                   D．tells

17．A．leave                   B．live                     C．stay                    D．die

18．A．since                   B．because               C．as                       D．for

19．A．Arriving              B．Getting                C．Finding               D．Sitting

20．A．instructs              B．supposes             C．intends                D．imagines