完形填空。 When Mike told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which had just broken. There werepieces of me all over the tidy floor. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving,___1__it was for the best, I could do better, it was his __2__and not mine. I had heard it before manytimes and yet somehow was still hurt; perhaps one cannot __3__such pain. He left and I tried to __4__my life. I filled the kettle (水壶), put it on to boil, took out myold red cup and __5__the coffee powder fall ing into the bone china. Somehow when the kettlepiped its finishing warning, I __6__not to hear it. That's what Mike's leaving had been like, sudden and with a(n) __7__end. I would rather just __8__in uncertainty than have thingsfinished. I laughed at myself. Just about a cup of coffee, I must be getting __9__. And yet it was a young woman who __10__back at me from the mirror, a young womanfull of __11__and hope, a young woman with bright eyes just waiting to see the world.__12__,there are more important things. More important than __13__, I insist to myself firmly. The lidgoes back on the coffee just like closing on the whole Mike experience. He didn't __14__my dreams as I feared that night. __15__, I am flying far across fields and woods, __16__on those below me. I fly free until I meet another bird who flies with me in perfect harmony. I realize with some __17__that there is a bird out there for me, there isanother person, not necessarily a lover perhaps just a __18__, but there is someone out there who is my soul mate. I think about being a broken __19__again and realize that I havegathered myself back together, what Mike has is __20__a little part of my time in earth, alittle understanding of my physical being. He has merely, a little piece of me. ( )1.A. complaining( )2.A. business( )3.A. pass( )4.A. get close to( )5.A. watched ( )6.A. announced( )7.A. optimistic( )8.A. wander( )9.A. mad( )10.A. flashed( )11.A. promise( )12.A. Therefore( )13.A. friendship( )14.A. visit( )15.A. Deliberately( )16.A. taking off( )17.A. sorrow( )18.A. friend( )19.A. heart( )20.A. mostly B. suggestingB. faultB. defendB. get on withB. made B. decidedB. scepticalB. moveB. oldB. swungB. delight B. Besides B. lifeB. haveB. MeanwhileB. looking downB. worryB. birdB. vaseB. hardly C. explainingC. luckC. feelC. get away withC. letC. pretendedC. splendidC. keepC. nervousC. staredC. dilemmasC. FinallyC. loveC. rejectC. Thus C. breaking awayC. reliefC. dreamC. mirrorC. usually D. whisperingD. rea son D. easeD. get down toD. wanted D. concludedD. unpleasant D. take D. uncertainD. pointed D. conflicts D. ConstantlyD. healthD. spinD. InsteadD. getting overD. doubt D. job D. cupD. only