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Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I   16   across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other．These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and   17  with dust．  18   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   19   with age, I discovered a new page   20  unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives．

My father used to   21   in the army．So his letters were full of frontline   22   of the things about the war．Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss．I was   23   to these letters like a magnet （磁铁）．

Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very    24    and was hospitalized．This time, he was fighting a   25   kind of war．As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the   26 ．He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had   27  to him when he had been so far from home．

It so happened that the next day would be February 14．From the   28   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   29  ．"Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more   30   when I handed him the old   31  . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he   32   it, his eyes were filled with tears．

My father, in a voice tight with   33   read the loving   34   he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier．And this time, he could read it to her   35  ．

16．A．came           B．hit            C．drew       D．fell

17．A．hidden          B．covered        C．buried       D．filled

18．A．Pretending       B．Suggesting     C．Preferring     D．Deciding

19．A．delicate          B．tasty           C．useful        D．tender

20．A．recently         B．usually         C．previously    D．occasionally

21．A．work           B．study          C．serve          D．report

22．A．accounts        B．documents     C．introductions    D．occupations

23．A．devoted        B．abandoned     C．thrown       D．drawn

24．A．depressed       B．dead           C．dangerous      D．ill

25．A．typical           B．traditional      C．different      D．familiar

26．A．wars       B．illnesses        C．letters         D．prescriptions

27．A．meant          B．intended       C．planned     D．said

28．A．divided         B．sorted         C．separated       D．updated

29．A．sadly            B．angrily         C．softly     D．loudly

30．A．curious          B．enthusiastic     C．fantastic      D．positive

31．A．Christmas card   B．envelope       C．basket        D．lipstick

32．A．found           B．wrote          C．recognized   D．missed

33．A．astonishment    B．sorrow        C．sickness       D．emotion

34．A．story           B．message       C．speech     D．motto

35．A．in person        B．in private       C．in danger D．in peace

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