A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a _ , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it __ ___ ___from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, ___ __ __everywhere. I tried to use a broom, ___ _ with each sweep they just rolled across the kitchen. For the next week, every time I was in the _ _ __, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept __ _ __. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and _ __ _ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath. At the time I found those few remaining _ __ _, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful _ __ _ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded ____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my _ __ _ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble_ __ his new surroundings and the _ __ _ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered. When life gets you _ _ __, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never _ __ _, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be __ _, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas __ _, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them ___ , you’ll start to feel whole again. The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to __ _ _, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, __will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together? 小题1: A．drink B．fruit C．vegetable D．meat 小题2: A．moved B．walked C．ran D．slipped 小题3: A．rubbed B．rolled C．grew D．existed 小题4: A．but B．and C． although D． so 小题5: A．bedroom B．living room C．kitchen D．storeroom 小题6: A．getting B．turning up C．taking up D．using up 小题7: A．found B．ate C．left D．planted 小题8: A．presents B．cans C．vegetables D．peas 小题9: A．man B．child C．woman D．boy 小题10: A．of B．for C．with D．in 小题11: A．wife B．life C．son D．friend 小题12: A．turning to B．leading to C．adjusting to D．adding to 小题13: A．thank B．love C．help D．loss 小题14: A．down B．near C．close D．wide 小题15: A．get it B．make it C．take it D．leave it 小题16: A．grew B．bought C．collected D．frozen 小题17: A．eventually B．fortunately C．properly D．specially 小题18: A．both B．all C．either D．each 小题19: A．call on B．put on C．bring in D．move on 小题20: A．while B．because C．since D．or