After 21 years of marriage I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love. A little while ago I had started to go out with another  1  . It was really my wife’s idea. “ I know you love her,” she said one day  2   me by surprise.

3   woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my   4   and my three children had made it   5   to visit her only occasionally. That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a   6  , “I thought that it would be   7   to pass some time with you. Just the two of us.” She  8   it for a moment and then said, “I would like that very much.”

That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up, I was a bit   9  . When I arrived at her house, I   10   that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited at   31  with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She  12   from a face that was as radiant（容光焕发的）as an angel’s.

We went to a restaurant that,   13   not elegant (雅致的), was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm   14   she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read   15   print. Half way through the menu, I   16   my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A lovely smile was on her lips. “It was I who used to have to read the   17  when you were small,” she said.

During the dinner we had an agreeable   18  , catching up on recent events in each other’s life. We talked  19   much that we missed the movie. The   20  was very nice. Much more than I could have imagined.

1. A. man              B. woman              C. friend                D. girl

2. A. giving            B. having               C. taking               D. making

3. A. The other      B. Another             C. Other                D. Others

4. A. wife              B. boss                  C. work                D. life

5. A. possible  B. impossible         C. possibly            D. impossibly

6. A. talk        B. concert             C. movie               D. drink

7. A. interesting      B. exciting             C. pleasant             D. happy

8. A. hesitated B. was surprised    C. doubted about    D. thought about

9. A. anxious         B. nervous             C. eager                D. worried

10. A. thought        B. discovered         C. noticed              D. believed

11. A. the door       B. the office           C. the room           D. the station

12. A. spoke          B. came out           C. expressed          D. smiled

13. A. because              B. as                     C. if                      D. although

14. A. even if         B. only if               C. as if                  D. if only

15. A. large            B. blue                  C. small                 D. clear

16. A. opened        B. closed               C. fixed                 D. lifted

17. A. newspaper   B. book                 C. menu                D. story

18. A. conversation B. walk                 C. meal                 D. situation

19. A. too              B. very                  C. that                  D. so

20. A. meal            B. talk                   C. date                  D. restaurant