完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (栀子花) was   31  to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always   32  －it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to  33  the sender’s identity and just  34  in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical，perfect white flower lying in  35  pink paper．
But I never stopped  36  who the giver might be．My mother  37  to these imaginations．She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special  38  who might be showing appreciation．I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had  39  me even though I didn’t know him．
One month  40  my high-school graduation．my father died．My feelings  41  from sorrow to fear and  42  ：my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life．I became completely  43  in my coming graduation，the senior-class play and the ball．But my mother would not hear of my  44  any of those things．Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress，but it was the  45  size．When my father died，I forgot about the dress．
The day before my ball，I found that dress——in the right size——over the living room sofa．It was  46  to me so lovingly．I didn’t  47  if I had a new dress or not．But my mother did．She wanted her children to feel  48  ，filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of  49  ．In truth，my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia——lovely，strong and perfect——with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery．
My mother died ten days after l was married．The following year the gardenia stopped 50  ．

A．delivered B．taken D．given

A．helpful B．useless C．hopeful D．useful

A．realize B．check C．discover D．recognize

A．pleasant B．pleasing C．satisfied D．delighted

A．tough B．soft C．light D．hard

A．remembering B．imagining C．recalling D．considering

A．asked B．preferred C．contributed D．refer

A．job B．thing C．happiness D．kindness

A．watched B．noticed C．hated D．observed

A．before B．later C．ago D．after

A．differed B．suffered C．judged D．ranged

A．happiness B．depressing C．anger D．shock

A．interested B．unhappy C．disappointing D．uninterested

A．disappearing B．losing C．lost D．lacking

A．false B．proper C．right D．wrong

A．presented B．introduced C．awarded D．provided

A．wonder B．desire C．care D．doubt

A．loved B．respected C．honored D．loving

A．difficulty B．hardship C．sorrow D．sorry

A．appearing B．following C．presenting D．coming