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河南南召县2017高考英语完形填空选编5 【2015高考复习】完形填空 It was the old lady’s 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，__1__her letters from the ground floor on the rare__2__when anything came. Today she was sure there would be something.Myra__3__forget her mother’s birthday，even if she__4__wrote at other times.Of course Myra was busy，but？__5__，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.Perhapsperhaps Myra might come.After all，eighty was a__6__birthday，another decade lined or tolerated just as you chose to look at it.__7__Myra did not come，she would send a present.The old lady was__8__of that.Two spots of colour__9__her cheeks.She was__10__like a child.She would enjoy her day! Now，she stood by the window，__11__.The postman turned round the corner on his bicycle.Her heart beat__12__.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 postfour envelopes.Three were unclosed cards from old friends.The fourth was closed，in Myra’s writing.The old lady felt a sharp pain of__13__.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__14__. | 
