Grandma's （1）

C

C

birthday was near and I wondered what to give her.She had moved into a nursing home and didn't have （2）

A

A

for extra things.She insisted that she didn't need any gift .
   Finally，I came up with an idea.In her birthday card，I sent（3）

B

B

a gift certificate（禮券）for"A letter a week for the next year！".It was （4）

B

B

big promise.I've never been much of a letter writer，but now I was living far from home，and should be able to find plenty of news.Growing up just a mile from my grandparents，we'd always been （5）

C

C

I knew that she'd love to hear（6）

C

C

was going on in my life .
   Grandma got fifty-two letters that first year.All showed her that I was thinking of her （7）

A

A

.As her next birthday came around，she asked for（8）

C

C

letter gift certificate.In fact，for nine and a half years I wrote to her.She was seldom able to write back.
   So much（9）

D

D

in those years！At first I wrote about the cold Michigan winters.Then I wrote about my pregnancy（懷孕）?。?0）

A

A

the kids' preschool years，I shared every funny thing（11）

B

B

they did and said，and as they grew they started adding"picture letters"to the envelope.Once I flew home to visit Grandma and found that all the staff in the nursing home knew the details of my life（12）

C

C

they often read letters to her.
   My last letter arrived the day after her （13）

B

B

.I never missed a letter and I felt I had given her the best gift I could.What I hadn't counted on was how her gift （14）

C

C

full circle to me.
   （15）

C

C

later，while going through her things，my dad found a box full of letters from me.Those letters are a journal of my life，filled with moments and pictures I had completely forgotten.But Grandma saved those memories for me in my letters.
   Life really does fly by.Loved ones come and go.But sometimes our gifts to others come back to us in unexpected ways.This is one of those times.

（1）	A．the eightieth	B．eighty	C．eightieth	D．the eighty
（2）	A．room	B．rooms	C．a(chǎn) room	D．the room
（3）	A．she	B．her	C．hers	D．herself
（4）	A．the	B．a(chǎn)	C．a(chǎn)n	D． /
（5）	A．closes	B．closing	C．close	D．closed
（6）	A．that	B．which	C．what	D．who
（7）	A．regularly	B．regular	C．regularity	D．irregular
（8）	A．other	B．others	C．a(chǎn)nother	D．the other
（9）	A．have happened	B．was happened	C．were happened	D．happened
（10）	A．During	B．At	C．On	D．With
（11）	A．that	B．what	C．who	D．where
（12）	A．if	B．when	C．a(chǎn)s	D．but
（13）	A．die	B．death	C．dying	D．died
（14）	A．will come	B．came	C．would come	D．is coming
（15）	A．Sometimes	B．Sometime	C．Some time	D．Some times