Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I
36 across some old love letters that my parents wrote to
each other. these letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and
37 with dust.
38 to read and sort them, I asked
them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them
39 with age, I discovered a new page
40 unknown to me in
this private chapter of my parents’ lives.
My father used to
41 in the army. So his letters were full of frontline(前线)
42 of the things about the war.
Each of my mother’s letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick(口红) kiss. I was
43 to these letters
like a magnet(磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very
44 and was hospitalized(住院). This time, he
was fighting a
45 kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the
46 . He told me how much receiving
those lipstick-kissed letters had
47 to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would be February 14. From the
48 letters I chose the card my father had
sent mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying
49 .“Today is Valentine’s Day, don’t you want to sent Mother a
present?” He became more
50 when I handed him the old
51 . He carefully opened it and took out the card,
and when he
52 it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with
53 read the loving
54 he’d sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And
this time, he could read it to her
55 .
| 小题2: | | A．covered | B．hidden | C．buried | D．filled |
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| 小题3: | | A．Pretending | B．Deciding | C．Preferring | D．Suggesting |
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| 小题4: | | A．tender | B．tasty | C．useful | D．delicate |
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| 小题5: | | A．recently | B．previously | C．usually | D．occasionally |
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| 小题6: | | A．serve | B．study | C．work | D．report |
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| 小题7: | | A．documents | B．accounts | C．introductions | D．occupations |
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| 小题8: | | A．devoted | B．drawn | C．thrown | D．abandoned |
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| 小题9: | | A．depressed | B．dead | C．ill | D．dangerous |
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| 小题10: | | A．different | B．traditional | C．typical | D．familiar |
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| 小题11: | | A．wars | B．illnesses | C．prescriptions | D．letters |
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| 小题12: | | A．intended | B．meant | C．planned | D．said |
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| 小题13: | | A．divided | B．separated | C．sorted | D．updated |
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| 小题14: | | A．softly | B．angrily | C．sadly | D．loudly |
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| 小题15: | | A．fantastic | B．enthusiastic | C．curious | D．positive |
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| 小题16: | | A．Christmas card | B．lipstick | C．basket | D．envelope |
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| 小题17: | | A．found | B．wrote | C．missed | D．recognized |
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| 小题18: | | A．emotion | B．sorrow | C．sickness | D．astonishment |
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小题19:.
| A．story | B．speech | C．message | D．motto |
| 小题20: | | A．in peace | B．in private | C．in danger | D．in person |
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