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When I was in Idaho, I used to buy fresh produce at Mr. Miller's store. One day, I noticed a small
boy hungrily1 the green peas. The conversation between them2 me deeply.
'Hello Barry. Would you like to3 some peas home?'
'No, I have no money.'
'Well, what do you have to trade me for them?'
'A marble (玻璃弹球)'
'Oh, this is blue. Do you have a(n)4 one?'
'Yes.'
'Take this bag of peas home and next5 this way let me look at that red marble.'
'I'm sure I will. Thanks Mr. Miller.'
Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile, she said, 'There are
two other6 like him in our community. Jim often bargains with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or
whatever. When they7 with their red marbles, he8 he doesn't like red after all and he sends them
home with a bag of produce for a green or orange marble, perhaps.'
Several years went by. Just recently I happened to9 that Mr. Miller had died. I went to the
mortuary()to offer his relatives words of comfort. Three young men walked10 up to Mrs.
Miller. Each of them11 her spoke briefly with her and12 Mr. Miller's casket(棺材). Each young
man stopped, placed his own13 hand over the cold pale hand and left,14 his eyes.
When I told Mrs. Miller who I was and15 the story about the marbles, she said, 'Those three
young men were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they16 the things Jim 'traded'
them. Now, they came to pay their17. We've never had much wealth but right now, Jim would
consider himself the18 man in Idaho.'
With loving19 , she lifted her husband's lifeless fingers, where there were three shiny red20 .
( )1. A. staring at
( )2. A. hurt
( )3. A. send
( )4. A. yellow
( )5. A. year
( )6. A. men
( )7. A. ring back
( )8. A. decides
( )9. A. think
( )10. A. pleasantly
( )11. A. missed
( )12. A. moved on to
( )13. A. cold
( )14. A. closing
( )15. A. mentioned
( )16. A. kept
( )17. A. debt
( )18. A. happiest
( )19. A. sadness
( )20. A. diamonds B. picking up
B. excited
B. bring
B. red
B. thing
B. women
B. come back
B. remembers
B. learn
B. shyly
B. worried
B. looked forward to
B. warm
B. opening
B. read
B. appreciated
B. fine
B. cleverest
B. relationship
B. jewels C. shouting at
C. impressed
C. drive
C. green
C. trip
C. boys
C. speak out
C. believes
C. see
C. naturally
C. admired
C. took hold of
C. wet
C. wiping
C. wrote
C. got
C. tax
C. healthiest
C. gentleness
C. stones D. packing up
D. satisfied
D. take
D. orange
D. room
D. girls
D. try out
D. realizes
D. understand
D. slowly
D. hugged
D. kept up with
D. clean
D. raising
D. spread
D. recognized
D. bill
D. richest
D. voice
D. marbles