完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

The friendship between us never fades. Mary Allen was my best friend—like a sister I never1. ______. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding, and so on.

When I was 13, my family moved. Mary and I 2. ______ in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special3. ______ — like my wedding and Mary’s. Soon we were 4. ______ with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote 5. ______. One day a card that I sent came back 6. ______ “Address Unknown.” I had no idea how to 7. ______ Mary.

Over the years, I thought of Mary often. I wanted to 8. ______ stories of my children and then grandchildren. I need to share my 9. ______ when my brother and then my mother died. There was a(n) 10. ______ place in my heart that only a friend like Mary could 11. ______.

One day I was reading a newspaper when I 12. ______ a picture of a young woman who looked a lot like Mary and whose 13. ______ name was Wagman— Mary’s married name. “There 14. ______ be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought,15. ______ I wrote to her anyway.

She 16. ______ as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs. Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Mary Allen Wagman is my 17. ______.” Minutes later I heard a voice that I 18. ______ at once, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and asked about each other’s 19. ______.

Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there is one thing that Mary and I know 20. ______: We won’t lose each other again!

1. A. had B. love   C. left     D. met

2. A. got B. kept   C. lost    D. fell

3. A. places    B. occasions  C. festivals    D. things

4. A. comfortable  B. careful      C. easy   D. busy

5. A. more     B. much C. less    D. least

6. A. said       B. fastened    C. read   D. stamped

7. A. know     B. stop   C. find    D. help

8. A. share     B. tell     C. write  D. remember

9. A. news     B. sorrow       C. stories       D. failure

10. A. big      B. small  C. wild   D. empty

11. A. stay     B. hide   C. fill     D. live

12. A. took    B. noticed      C. drew  D. picked

13. A. last      B. first    C. nick   D. given

14. A. should B. need   C. can’t  D. must

15. A. and      B. since  C. but     D. so

16. A. called  B. laughed     C. cried  D. shouted

17. A. friend  B. mother      C. sister  D. daughter

18. A. realized       B. received    C. contacted  D. recognized

19. A. future  B. progress    C. lives   D. weddings

20. A. for sure       B. at all  C. in all  D. as well

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