Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work.

There is one _41_ blue flower that has always caught my eye. I’ve_42_ that it blooms only in the _43_ hours. The afternoon sun is too _44_ for it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers.

This spring, I _45_ a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the _46_ window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I’ve often _47_ that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would _48_ great in that bed alongside other wildflowers. Every day I drove past the flowers _49_ , “I’ll stop on my way home and dig them. ” Gee, I don’t want to get my good _50_ dirty. Whatever the reason, I _51_ stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a folding shovel（铲子）one year to be used for that expressed _52_ .

One day on my way home from work, I was _53_ to see that the highway department had mowed the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were _54_ . I thought to myself, “Way to go, you_55_ too long. You should have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring. ”

A week ago we were shocked and saddened to _56_ that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor（晚期脑肿瘤）. _57_ we haven’t been as close as we all would have liked. I couldn’t help but see the _58_ between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my husband’s sister and us.

And yes, _59_ I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I’ll stop and _60_ them to my wildflower garden.

41. A. particular         B. expensive              C. previous               D. colorful

42. A . imagined        B. felt                       C. noticed                 D. heard

43. A. morning          B. daytime                 C. afternoon              D. night

44. A. warm              B. important              C. weak                    D. responsible

45. A. bought            B. rent                      C. started                  D. managed

46. A. bedroom          B. hall                       C. study                    D. kitchen

47. A. doubted           B. thought                 C. agreed                  D. dreamed

48. A. smell               B. look                      C. prove                   D. become

49. A. wondering       B. complaining           C. saying                  D. thinking

50. A. car                  B. flowers                 C. clothes                 D. hands

51. A. seldom            B. sometimes             C. often                    D. never

52. A. satisfaction      B. disappointment      C. purpose                D. anxiety

53. A. surprised         B. saddened               C. encouraged           D. ashamed

54. A. unhappy          B. lonely                   C. gone                     D. alive

55. A. waited             B. drove                    C. went                    D. stopped

56. A. realize             B. learn                     C. observe                D. decide

57. A. Surprisingly     B. Generally              C. Obviously             D. Unfortunately

58. A. love                B. difference             C. secret                   D. connection

59. A. since               B. unless                   C. if                         D. before

60. A. transport         B. steal                     C. invite                    D. pull