A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a
_ , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it __
______from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, ___
____everywhere. I tried to use a broom,
____ with each sweep they just rolled across the kitchen.
For the next week, every time I was in the _
___, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept __
___. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and _
___ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath.
At the time I found those few remaining _
___, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful _
___ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded ____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my _
___ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble_
__ his new surroundings and the _
___ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you _
___, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never _
___, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be
___, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas
___, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them
___, you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to __
__, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, __will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
| 小题1: | | A．drink | B．fruit | C．vegetable | D．meat |
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| 小题2: | | A．moved | B．walked | C．ran | D．slipped |
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| 小题3: | | A．rubbed | B．rolled | C．grew | D．existed |
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| 小题4: | | A．but | B．and | C． although | D． so |
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| 小题5: | | A．bedroom | B．living room | C．kitchen | D．storeroom |
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| 小题6: | | A．getting | B．turning up | C．taking up | D．using up |
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| 小题7: | | A．found | B．ate | C．left | D．planted |
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| 小题8: | | A．presents | B．cans | C．vegetables | D．peas |
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| 小题11: | | A．wife | B．life | C．son | D．friend |
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| 小题12: | | A．turning to | B．leading to | C．adjusting to | D．adding to |
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| 小题13: | | A．thank | B．love | C．help | D．loss |
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| 小题14: | | A．down | B．near | C．close | D．wide |
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| 小题15: | | A．get it | B．make it | C．take it | D．leave it |
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| 小题16: | | A．grew | B．bought | C．collected | D．frozen |
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| 小题17: | | A．eventually | B．fortunately | C．properly | D．specially |
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| 小题18: | | A．both | B．all | C．either | D．each |
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| 小题19: | | A．call on | B．put on | C．bring in | D．move on |
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| 小题20: | | A．while | B．because | C．since | D．or |
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