完形填空 根据上下文和首字母将文章所缺单词补充完整。 Six minutes to six, said the digital clock over the information desk in Grand Central Station. John Blandford, a tall young army officer, 1) f________ his eyesight on the clock to note the exact time. In six minutes he would see the woman who had filled a special place in his life for the 2) p______ thirteen months, a woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and had given him strength without 3) f______. Soon after he 4) v_________ for military service, he had received a book from this woman. A letter, which 5) w_______ him courage and safety, came with the book. He discovered that many of his friends, also in the army, had received the 6) i________ book from the woman, Hollis Meynell. And while they all got strength from it, and 7) a________ her support of their cause, John Blandford was the only person to write Ms. Meynell back. On the day of his 8) d________, to a destination overseas where he would fight in the war, he received her reply. 9) A________ the cargo ship that was taking him into enemy 10) t_________, he stood on the deck and read her letter to him again and again.