完形填空。
The button pot
I stepped out of the rain into the small, warm house. I1the delicious fish and potatoes. I walked
down the2hall and into the kitchen where my grandma sat picking out buttons for a special project.
She3me and told me to sit down. I looked at her button pot and started going through the colorful
buttons. A couple of interesting buttons caught my4 . My grandma said they were Italian buttons. Back
in Italy, people used to put them on pillow cases (枕头套). Six on each case,she told me. She had brought
them to Canada almost fifty years ago as a young bride (新娘).
She started telling me the5of some of her other buttons: the buttons she had6from old coats
given to her by a neighbor, and7 she had always made most of the clothes for six children,including my
mom.
As I listened to her stories, I saw a woman whose body was now harmed by bone cancer8whose
spirit was undaunted (无畏的) even by that.
Her9has been able a full one,filled with pain, love, sadness and happiness.10her button pot, I
have been able to see the courage of life.
( )1. A. tasted
( )2. A. small
( )3. A. discovered
( )4. A. eye
( )5. A. advantages
( )6. A. borrowed
( )7. A. when
( )8. A. or
( )9. A. study
( )10. A. Through B. smelled
B. large
B. visited
B. ear
B. instructions
B. collected
B. how
B. and
B. life
B. With C. saw
C. wide
C. greeted
C. arm
C. stories
C. made
C. whether
C. but
C. job
C. For