完形填空。 My grandmother's eightieth birthday was approaching and I was at a loss as to what to give her. She had recently moved into a nursing home and didn't have room for 1 things. She insisted that she didn't need a thing. 2 , I came up with an idea. In her 3 card, I sent her a gift certificate (礼券) for 'A letter a 4 for the next year!' It was a big 5 . I knew that she'd love to 6 what was going on in my life. The letter gift certificate was a big 7 . She got fifty-two letters that first year. Some were 8 and filled with homesickness. Others were short and newsy. More than once what she 9 was just a funny card with a few short 10 . All showed her that I was thinking of her regularly. 11 her next birthday came around, she asked for another letter gift certificate. 12 , that's also what she wanted next eight birthdays. For nine years I wrote her. She was rarely able to 13 back. I flew home annually to 14 and soon realized that the entire nursing home staff knew all the details of my 15 , as more and more often they were 16 the letters to her. My 17 letter arrived the day after her death. I felt I had given her the best gift I could. What I hadn't counted on (指望) was how her gift would come full circle to me. Months later, while 18 her things, my dad found a box full of letters from me. Those letters were filled with moments and pictures I had completely forgotten. She 19 those memories for me in my letters. Sometimes our gifts to others come back to us in 20 ways. (     )1. A. lovely (     )2. A. Finally (     )3. A. invitation (     )4. A. month (     )5. A. lie (     )6. A. face (     )7. A. joke (     )8. A. long (     )9. A. sold (     )10. A. notes (     )11. A. Although (     )12. A. In fact (     )13. A. turn (     )14. A. work (     )15. A. life (     )16. A. writing (     )17. A. short (     )18. A. seeing through (     )19. A. saved (     )20. A. practical B. expensive B. Hopefully B. Christmas B. week B. deal B. feel B. hit B. boring B. sent B. questions B. As B. In general B. write B. hunt B. husband B. sending B. handwriting B. going through B. lost B. funny C. extra C. Fortunately C. greeting C. day C. problem C. hear C. mistake C. interesting C. received C. tips C. If C. After all C. step C. visit C. vacation C. handing C. open C. throwing away C. broke C. unexpected D. unimportant D. Surprisingly D. birthday D. season D. promise D. tell D. challenge D. formal D. held D. lines D. Unless D. Above all D. look D. cook D. business D. reading D. last D. taking away D. refreshed D. similar