The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps-perhaps 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 post-four 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__.
Almost __15__ she tore the envelope open.__16__ in the card was a piece of paper. Written on the card was a message under the printed Happy Birthday Buy yourself something nice with the __17__, Myra and Harold. The cheque moved quickly to and for in the air to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. Slowly the old lady __18__ to pick it up. Her present! Her __19__ present! With __20__ fingers she tore it into little bits.
1.A.took away B. brought up
C. moved off D. set down
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