My father met my mother in a poker (扑克牌) game. He couldn't 21 his eyes off her. It was her company's annual 22 , and he walked her home that night. The next week, from his home in
She still has that postcard. I'm not sure what made her 25 it. Though he already had his heart 26 her, she hadn't chosen him yet, 27 not consciously.
As my father often told us 28 we were growing up, it was 29 luck that he was at the picnic that day. As a salesman for a big electronics company, he was in town to 30 customers and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to 31 some calls. The telephone rang ; it was the 32 of a local radio station with whom my father had done some business. So the manager 33 my father to come right over to their annual picnic.
My mother was a writer at that radio station. If my father hadn't 34 by the office that morning ,he told us, 35 if he'd gotten there two minutes later, the life--our lives-- would have been 36 .
A few months after the wedding, my father was transferred East. They 37 in
Sometimes I think about that, how time sweeps us 38 and puts us in a certain place where we're faced with one choice or another. By chance or by the 39 we make, we leave behind other lives we could have lived, full of 40 passions and joys, different problems and disappointments.
21. A. take | B. meet | C. fix | D. put |
22. A. game | B. competition | C. picnic | D. meeting |
23. A. booked | B. wrote | C. sold | D. sent |
24. A. do | B. forget | C. wait | D. read |
25. A. bring | B. save | C. let | D. gather |
26. A. look for | B. set on | C. stare at | D. fall to |
27. A. at least | B. more or less | C. as a result | D. at last |
28. A. because | B. until | C. though | D. while |
29. A. blind | B. sad | C. sorrowful | D. tiresome |
30. A. fight with | B. agree with | C. argue with | D. meet with |
31. A. produce | B. develop | C. make | D. get |
32. A. friend | B. manager | C. salesman | D. customer |
33. A. invited | B. refused | C. forced | D. allowed |
34. A. slept | B. spoken | C. stopped | D. grown |
35. A. and | B. but | C. then | D. or |
36. A. missed | B. lost | C. stolen | D. gone |
37. A. married | B. settled | C. met | D. separated |
38. A. away | B. off | C. along | D. up |
39. A. choices | B. places | C. lives | D. times |
40. A. similar | B. familiar | C. different | D. dangerous |