2014高考英语突破完形填空训练(5)及答案
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What would I do for Carol's 50th birthday? It was __1__ that she didn't want a party, certainly not a surprise party (that was an agreement at our marriage).
“How about a small dinner with __2__ ?” I asked.
“No,” she said,“I hate being the center of __3__”
Still, the milestone had to be marked. __4__ wasn't going to let her get away with a Stouffer's frozen dinner and a movie video, __5__ this was all she said she wanted.
I thought and thought,and __6__ making my decision, I sent a letter to her friends, asking them for photos,poems,and letters. “Carol doesn't __7__ a party in person...but I'm hoping to __8__ her a party in a book.” I bought a (n) __9__ with a friend's advice, and what I wanted __10__. For a few minutes at the end of every workday, I __11__ pull out the marking pens and make up the __12__, Carol's.
Photos of her in junior high, pictures of us __13__ the boys, original songs, notes, cards, and poems. It made me __14__ for all the years we had had together. The __15__ was more than the album. It was the friendship and love she