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完形阅读训练一 It was the old ladys birthday. She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor flat she could see the postman when he came down the street, and a little boy, Johnnie, _ _31___ her letters from the ground floor on the rare _32___ when anything came.???Today she was sure there would be something. Myra _33___ forget her mothers birthday, even if she _34___ wrote at other times. Of course Myra was busy, but _35___, Enid, the daughter the old lady loved most, died two years ago. Since then Myra had been to see her mother three times, but her husband, Harold, never. The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps--perhaps Myra might come. After all, eighty was a _36___ birthday, another decade lined or tolerated just as you chose to look at it. _37___Myra did not come, she would send a present. The old lady was _38___ of that. Two spots of color _39___ her cheeks. She was __40___ like a child. She would enjoy her day!??? Now, she stood by the window, _41___. The postman turned round the corner on his bicycle. Her heart beat _42___. Johnnie had seen him too and ran to the gate. Then clatter (咔嗒声), clatter up the stairs. Johnnie knocked at her door. He had got her post---four envelopes. Three were unclosed cards from old friends. The fourth was closed, in Myras writing. The old lady felt a sharp pain of _43__. There was no parcel for her! Maybe the parcel was too large to come by letter post. That was it. It would come later by parcel post. She said to herself. She must be _44__. Almost _45___she tore the envelope open. _46_ in the card was a piece of paper. Written on the card was a message under the printed Happy Birthday --- Buy yourself something nice with the _47_, Myra and Harold. The cheque moved quickly to and fro in the air to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. Slowly the old lady _48_to pick it up. Her present! her _49___ present! With _50_ fingers she tore it into little bits.31. A. took away????????