中考英语完型研讨.ppt

* gardenia Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve , a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card came with it. Gardenia What did the writer mainly talk about? (Who, when ,what happened ?) Calls to the flower shop were not 36 at all. After a while I stopped trying to 37 the sender’s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper. However, I never 38 imagining who the giver might be. Did the writer know who the giver was ? Some of my happiest 39 were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had shown special 40 . Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I’d delivered during the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a 41 I had run into. What was her mother’s attitude to her imaginings? One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely 42 in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn’t 43 if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, despite(尽管) her own sadness, would not let me 44 any of those things. She wanted her children not only to be lovable but to feel 45 . What happened ? How did they feel ? In truth, my mother wanted her children to see 46 much like the gardenia ----lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery (神秘). My mother died ten days after I was married. I was twenty-two years old. That was the year the gardenia stopped 47 . Who was the giver ? Why did her mother send her flowers without her knowing? When What happened Received gardenia. My mother died. Every year on my birthday, One month before my graduation, Ten days after I was Married, Find th