Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I       across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and        With dust.          to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them delicate with age, I discovered a new page         unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents’ lives.
My father used to            in the army. So his letters were full of frontline         of the things about the war. Each of my mother’s letters was marked           her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was              to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very         . and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a            kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the         . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had         to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the            letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying         , “Today is Valentine’s Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?” He became more           when I handed him the old           . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he          it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with       read the loving        he’d sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her             .

A．came B．hit C．drew D．fell

A．hidden B．covered C．buried D．filled

A．Pretending B．Suggesting C．Preferring D．Deciding

A．recently B．occasionally C．previously D．usually

A．work B．study C．serve D．report

A．accounts B．documents C．introductions D．occupations

A．with B．for C．of D．as

A．devoted B．abandoned C．thrown D．drawn

A．depressed B．dead C．dangerous D．ill

A．typical B．traditional C．different D．familiar

A．wars B．illnesses C．letters D．prescriptions

A．meant B．intended C．planned D．said

A．divided B．sorted C．separated D．updated

A．sadly B．angrily C．softly D．loudly

A．curious B．enthusiastic C．fantastic D．positive

A．Christmas card B．envelope C．basket D．lipstick

A．found B．wrote C．recognized D．missed

A．astonishment B．sorrow C．sickness D．emotion

A．story B．message C．speech D．motto

A．in brief B．in private C．in danger D．in person