Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very 36 trying to earn money in order to 37 the high tuition for my brother and me. One day, my mother was stringing a quilt. I 38 sat down beside her and looked at her.
“Mom, I have a question to ask you.” I said with a smile.
“What?” she replied, 39 doing her work.
“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very 40 voice.
“Susan,” she said 41 , “Look at this thread. Sometimes it 42 , but most of time it disappears in the quilt. The thread really 43 the quilt strong and lasts long. If life is a 44 , then love should be a thread. It can 45 be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is 46 .
I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her 47 the next spring, 48 my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to 49 with him in the hospital for a month. 50 they were back, every day my mother helped my father walk quietly on the country road.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t be 51 me.” He said gently, “To tell you the truth, I just like 52 your mom. I like this kind of life”. Reading his 53 , I know he loves my mother deeply.
I once thought love 54 flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this 55 , I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
| 36.A.busy | B. strict | C. worth | D. interested |
| 37.A. cost | B. spend | C. take | D. pay |
| 38.A. excitedly | B. quietly | C. worriedly | D. noisily |
| 39.A. already | B. yet | C. still | D. also |
| 40.A. low | B. worried | C. high | D. serious |
| 41.A. happily | B. nervously | C. thoughtfully | D. angrily |
| 42.A. comes | B. appears | C. covers | D. leaves |
| 43.A. makes | B. changes | C. connects | D. turns |
| 44.A. needle | B. sweater | C. clothing | D. quilt |
| 45.A. nearly | B. almost | C. hardly | D. never |
| 46.A. ahead | B. inside | C. outside | D. behind |
| 47.A. through | B. over | C. during | D. until |
| 48.A. why | B. how | C. when | D. where |
| 49.A. talk | B. work | C. stay | D. stand |
| 50.A. After | B. Before | C. Unless | D. Until |
| 51.A. ashamed of | B. worried about | C. curious about | D. disappointed in |
| 52.A. standing by | B. walking with | C. talking to | D. depending on |
| 53.A. notes | B. words | C. saying | D. eyes |
| 54.A. promised | B. seemed | C. meant | D. brought |
| 55.A. experience | B. matter | C. situation | D. accident |