完形填空 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (栀子花) was 1 to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always 2 -- it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just 3 in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower lying in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped 4 who the giver might be. My mother 5 to these imaginations. She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing 6 . I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had 7 me even though I didn’t know him.
One month before my high-school graduation, my father died. My feelings 8 from sorrow to fear and 9 : my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely 10 in my coming graduation, the senior-class play and the ball. But my mother would not hear of my losing any of those things. Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress, but it was the 11 size. When my father died, I forgot about the dress.
The day before my ball, I found that dress-- in the right size—hanging over the living room sofa. It was 12 to me so lovingly. I didn’t 13 if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel 14 , filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of 15 .
My mother died ten days after I was married. The following year the gardenia stopped coming.
1. A. given B. delivered C. taken D. brought
2. A. useful B. helpful C. in vain D. hopeful
3. A. delighted B. pleasant C. pleasing D. satisfied
4. A. considering B. remembering C. imagining D. recalling
5. A. referred B. led C. preferred D. contributed
6. A. appreciation B. honor C. grateful D. respect
7. A. observed B. watched C. noticed D. hated
8. A. ranged B. differed C. suffered D. judged
9. A. shock B. happiness C. depressing D. anger
10. A. uninterested B. interested C. unhappy D. disappointing
11. A. wrong B. false C. proper D. right
12. A. provided B. presented C. introduced D. awarded
13. A. doubt B. wonder C. desire D. care
14. A. loving B. loved C. respected D. honored
15. A. trouble B. despair C. problem D. sorrow
1B 2C 3A 4C 5D
6A 7C 8A 9D 10A
11A 12B 13D 14B 15D
1. B. 栀子花被送到我家。
2. C. 给花店打电话总是无济于事（in vain）。
3. A. delighted意为“高兴的”。自己沉陷于这束发出芳香的花中。
4. C. 本段第二句的imagine对本选项有提示作用。
5. D. contribute to 有“促成”之意，本句表明妈妈帮助我去想象。
6. A. appreciation 因为做了善事，受到别人的感激。
7. C. notice sb. 意为“关注某人”。
8. A. range from …to …意为“从……到……变化。
9. D. 父亲错过了我人生中最重要的事情，不能分享我的幸福，使我感到有一点儿生气。
10. A. 父亲的去世使我对即将到来的毕业不感兴趣。
11. A. 与后文的“in the r
ight size”对应。
12. B. be presented 意为“被呈现”。
13. D. care意为“在乎”。
14. B. 母亲希望她的女儿能感受到爱。
15. D. 即使面对父亲刚刚去世的悲痛。