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 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 with 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 . 小题1:A came               B. hit             C. drew                D. fell 小题2: A．hidden B．covered C．buried D．filled 小题3: A．Pretending B．Suggesting C．Preferring D．Deciding 小题4: A．delicate B．tasty C．useful D．tender 小题5: A．recently B．usually C．previously D．occasionally 小题6: A．work B．study C．serve D．report 小题7: A．accounts B．documents C．introductions D．occupations 小题8: A．devoted B．abandoned C．thrown D．drawn 小题9: A．depressed B．dead. C．dangerous D．ill 小题10: A．typical B．traditional C．different D．familiar 小题11: A．wars B．illnesses C．letters D．prescriptions 小题12:A. meant            B. intended          C, planned                D. said 小题13: A．divided B．sorted C．separated D．updated 小题14: A．sadly B．angrily C．softly D．loudly 小题15: A．curious B．enthusiastic C．fantastic D．positive 小题16: A．Christmas card B．envelope C．basket D．lipstick 小题17: A．found B．wrote C．recognized D．missed 小题18: A．astonishment B．sorrow C．sickness D．emotion 小题19: A．story B．message C．speech D．motto 小题20: A．in person B．in private C．in danger D．in peace