After years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another person out to dinner. The other person that my wife wanted me to visit was my_____1_____ , but the_____ 2_____ of my work and my three children had made it_____3_____to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to_____4_____her to go out for dinner. During the dinner, we had a_____ 5_____conversation nothing extraordinary but catching up on _____ 6 _____events of each other’s life. As we returned to her house that night, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but_____ 7_____ you let me invite you.”
I _____8_____.
“How was your dinner_____9_____ ?” asked my wife when I got home.
“Very nice, much more than I could have_____10_____,” I answered.
A few days later, she died of a_____11 _____heart attack. It happened so_____ 12_____that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her.
Some time later, I_____13_____an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place with an attached note which _____ 14_____:
“I paid this bill_____ 15 _____. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but, nevertheless, I paid for two plates—one for you and the other for your wife. You will_____16_____ know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.”
At that moment, I understood the_____ 17_____of saying in time: “I love YOU.”
_____18_____in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they_____ 19_____ , because these things cannot be_____20_____ till some “other” time.
1. A. manager B. aunt C. niece D. mother
2. A. difficulties B. tasks C. demands D. pressures
3. A. possible B. impossible C. easy D. difficult
4. A. persuade B. invite C. advise D. ask
5. A. casual B. pleasant C. formal D. deep
6. A. former B. later C. recent D. main
7. A. only if B. even if C. if only D. as if
8. A. worried B. doubted C. refused D. agreed
9. A. party B. date C. appointmentD. end
10. A. predicted B. dreamed C. planned D. imagined
11. A. massive B. weak C. large D. shocking
12. A. quickly B. surprisingly C. suddenly D. unfortunately
13. A. received B. heard C. read D. saw
14. A. informed B. went C. reminded D. said
15. A. in need B. in advance C. in turn D. in total
16. A. soon B. hardly C. never D. surely
17. A. necessity B. emergency C. possibility D. importance
18. A. Something B. Nothing C. Anything D. Nobody
19. A. afford B. treasure C. deserve D. spare
20. A. put off B. turned off C. given off D. shown off