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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 for1things. She insisted that she didn't
need a thing.
2 , I came up with an idea. In her3card, I sent her a gift certificate (礼券) for 'A letter a4for
the next year!' It was a big5. I knew that she'd love to6what was going on in my life.
The letter gift certificate was a big7 . She got fifty-two letters that first year. Some were8and
filled with homesickness. Others were short and newsy. More than once what she9was just a funny
card with a few short10. All showed her that I was thinking of her regularly.
11her 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 to13back. I flew home annually to14and soon
realized that the entire nursing home staff knew all the details of my15 , as more and more often they
were16the letters to her.
My17letter 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, while18her things, my dad found a box full of letters from me. Those letters were
filled with moments and pictures I had completely forgotten. She19those memories for me in my letters. Sometimes our gifts to others come back to us in20ways.
( )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. funnyC. 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. unexpectedD. 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