Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia (栀子花) was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it.   1to the flower shop were always useless – it was a cash   2. After a while I stopped trying to   3who the sender was and just delighted in the beauty and perfume of the white flower. But I never   4imagining who the sender might be. Some of my   5moments were spent daydreaming about it.

My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(n)  6kindness who might be showing   7. Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was   8a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man   9the street whose mail I helped to get during the   10so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy step.   11a teenager, though, I had more fun guessing that it might be a   12who had noticed me   13I didn’t know him.

One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was  14some of the most important events in my life. I became completely   15in my upcoming graduation and the dance. When my father died, I   16the dance and the dress for it. The next day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn’t  17if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did.

She wanted her children to feel   18and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a    magic in the world and   19in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-loveable,   20and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died.

1.A．Calls            B．Quarrels       C．Messages       D．Letters

2.A．service          B．deal           C．bargain        D．offer

3.A．recognize        B．imagine        C．wonder         D．discover

4.A．failed           B．stopped        C．succeeded      D．enjoyed

5.A．saddest          B．painful        C．happiest       D．loneliest

6.A．special          B．common         C．valuable       D．important

7.A．concern          B．attitude       C．interest         D．appreciation

8.A．repairing       B．washing        C．unloading      D．starting

9.A．across           B．through        C．from           D．onto

10.A．spring          B．summer         C．autumn         D．winter

11.A．As              B．Like           C．Be             D．With

12.A．friend          B．superman       C．teacher        D．boy

13.A．as if           B．even though   C．in case          D．so that

14.A．considering     B．expecting      C．missing        D．preparing

15.A．disappointed    B．uninterested   C．discouraged      D．concentrated

16.A．forgot         B．lost           C．hated          D．expected

17.A．wonder          B．believe        C．care           D．know

18.A．contented       B．respected     C．thanked       D．loved

19.A．trouble         B．beauty         C．difficulty       D．love

20.A．strong          B．beautiful     C．smelly         D．lucky