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Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents.They are very busy working to _1
the family.They don't act in the _2_ ways that I read in books or I see on TV._3_ flowers to each other
on Valentine's Day is even more _4_.
One day,my mother was sewing a quilt (床罩).I _5_ sat down beside her and looked at her.'Mom,is
there love between you and Dad?' I asked her in a _6_ voice.
My mother stopped and raised her head with _7_ in her eyes.She didn't answer immediately.Then she
_8_ her head and continued to sew the quilt.At last my mother said:
'Susan,' she said,'Look at this thread.Sometimes it appears,but most of it _9_ in the quilt.The thread
really makes the quilt strong and _10_.If life is a quilt,then love should be a _11_.It can hardly be seen
anywhere or anytime,but it's really there.Love is _12_.'
The next spring,my father suddenly got sick seriously.When they returned from the hospital,mother
looked rather pale and it seemed _13_ of them had had a serious illness.Every day in the morning and
dusk,my mother helped my father _14slowly on the country road.My father had never been so _15_.
Along the country road,there were many beautiful flowers,green grass and trees.The sun gently glistened
through the leaves.All of these _16_ the most beautiful picture in the world.
'Dad,how are you feeling now?' I asked him one day.
He said gently.'_17_,I just like walking with your mom.I like this kind of life.' _18_ his eyes,I know he
loves my mother deeply.
_19_ I thought love meant flowers,gifts and sweet kisses.But from this _20_,I understand that love is
just a thread in the quilt of our life.Love is inside, life strong and warm.
( )1. A. hold
( )2. A. romantic
( )3. A. Taking
( )4. A. no problem
( )5. A. silently
( )6. A. loud
( )7. A. interest
( )8. A. bowed
( )9. A. lost
( )10. A. warm
( )11. A. needle
( )12. A. in the quilt
( )13. A. either
( )14. A. walk
( )15. A. rude
( )16. A. came up
( )17. A. In other words
( )18. A. Seeing
( )19. A. Once
( )20. A. processB. support
B. friendly
B. Passing
B. out of question
B. eagerly
B. low
B. fear
B. raised
B. turned out
B. lasting
B. cloth
B. out of the quilt
B. both
B. run
B. polite
B. turned up
B. To tell the truth
B. Reading
B. Though
B. wayC. live on
C. lovely
C. Buying
C. out of the question
C. peaceful
C. gentle
C. excitement
C. hang
C. disappeared
C. long
C. thread
C. outside
C. neither
C. stand
C. gentle
C. called up
C. In my opinion
C. Watching
C. When
C. matter D. keep
D. active
D. Sending
D. in question
D. anxiously
D. tender
D. surprise
D. lowered
D. came up
D. comfortable
D. sheet
D. inside
D. every
D. exercise
D. careful
D. made up
D. On the contrary
D. Observing
D. Unless
D. experience