完形填空。      When I was in Idaho, I used to buy fresh produce at Mr. Miller"s store. One day, I noticed a small
boy hungrily    1   the green peas. The conversation between   them    2   me deeply.
     "Hello Barry. Would you like to   3  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 next    5   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 other    6   like him in our community. Jim often bargains with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or
whatever. When they    7   with their red marbles, he    8   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 to    9   that Mr. Miller had died. I went to the
mortuary(太平间)to offer his relatives words of comfort. Three young men walked    10   up to Mrs.
Miller. Each of them    11   her spoke briefly with her and    12   Mr. Miller"s casket(棺材). Each young
man stopped, placed his   own    13   hand over the cold pale hand and left,    14   his eyes.
     When I told Mrs. Miller who I was and    15   the story about the marbles, she said, "Those three
young men were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they    16   the things Jim "traded"
them. Now, they came to pay their    17  . We"ve never had much wealth but right now, Jim would
consider himself the    18   man in Idaho."
     With loving    19   , she lifted her husband"s lifeless fingers, where there were three shiny red    20   . (     )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