完形填空 What would I do for Carol’s 50th birthday? It was   __ 1 __   that she didn't want a party, certainly not a surprise party (that was an agreement at our marriage). 'How about a small dinner with   __ 2 __?' I asked. 'No,'  she said, “I hate being the center of   __ 3 __.' Still, the milestone had to be marked. I wasn’t going to let her get away with a Stouffer's frozen dinner and a movie video, and this was all she said she wanted. I thought and thought, and   __ 4 __   making my decision, I sent a letter to her friends, asking them for photos, poems, and letters. 'Carol doesn't __ 5 __   a party in person…but I'm hoping to give her a party in a book.' I bought an album with a friend’s advice, and what I wanted   __ 6 __. For a few minutes at the end of every workday, I would pull out the marking pens and make up the  __ 7 __, Carol's. Photos of her in junior high, pictures of us with the boys, original songs, notes, cards, and poems. It made me  __ 8 __  for all the years we had had together. The  __ 9 __   was more than the album. It was the friendship and love she had given to me and to our kids and to all her friends and family. You could __ 10 __   it on every page. I wrapped it up and  __ 11 __   it home. 'Happy birthday, sweetie,'  I said. 'It's not a frozen dinner or a video, but it's what you deserve.' She cried. She doesn't   __ 12 __   like to cry, but I think she likes the book. She's said so many times. And every time I remind her that putting it together was a gift to me. (     )1. A. amazing (     )2. A. neighbours (     )3. A. attention (     )4. A. before (     )5. A. want (     )6. A. went on (     )7. A. decision (     )8. A. grateful (     )9. A. meaning (     )10. A. count (     )11. A. took (     )12. A. normally B. clear B. children B. comment B. after B. have B. poured in B. story B. worried B. gift B. read B. sent B. merely C. unusual C. friends C. view C. when C. hold C. turned back C. mind C. nervous C. party C. express C. placed C. really D. important D. classmates D. interest D. once D. attend D. got away D. book D. special D. world D. improve D. packed D. obviously