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完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳答案。 Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it. 1 to the flower shop were always useless---it was a cash 2 . After a while I stopped trying to 3 who the sender was and just delighted in the beauty and perfume of the white flower. But I never 4 imagining who the sender might be. Some of my 5 moments were spent daydreaming about it. My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(n) 6 kindness who might be showing 7 . Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was 8 a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man 9 the street whose mail I helped to get during the 10 so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy steps. As a teenager, 11, I had more fun guessing that it might be a 12 who had noticed me 13 I didn’t know him. One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was 14 some of the most important events in my life. I became completely 15 in my upcoming graduation and the dance. When my father died, I 16 the dance and the dress for it. The next day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn’t 17 if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did. She wanted her children to feel 18 and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a magic in the world and 19 in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia---loveable, 20 and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died. | 
