My father met my mother in a poker （扑克牌） game. He couldn't   1   his eyes off her. It was her company's annual   2   , and he walked her home that night. The next week, from his home in Chicago, he  3  her a postcard:" Remember me? Please 4   , because I'll be calling you one of these days. David".

       She still has that postcard. I'm not sure what made her  5   it. Though he already had his heart  6  her, she hadn't chosen him yet,  7  not consciously.

       As my father often told us   8   we were growing up, it was  9  luck that he was at the picnic that day. As a salesman for a big electronics company, he was in town to  10  customers and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to  11   some calls. The telephone rang；it was the  12  of a local radio station with whom my father had done some business. So the manager  13   my father to come right over to their annual picnic.

       My mother was a writer at that radio station. If my father hadn't  14   by the office that morning，he told us,  15   if he'd gotten there two minutes later, the life--our lives-- would have been   16  .

       A few months after the wedding, my father was transferred East. They  17 in New York, in the house where I grew up.

       Sometimes I think about that, how time sweeps us   18   and puts us in a certain place where we're faced with one choice or another. By chance or by the  19  we make, we leave behind other lives we could have lived, full of 20  passions and joys, different problems and disappointments.

1．A．take                B．meet             C．fix               D．put

2．A．game              B．competition       C．picnic           D．meeting

3．A．booked             B．wrote            C．sold             D．sent

4．A．do                 B．forget            C．wait             D．read

5．A．bring               B．save             C．let               D．gather

6．A．look for             B．set on            C．stare at          D．fall to

7．A．at least              B．more or less      C．as a result        D．at last

8．A．because             B．until             C．though           D．while

9．A．blind                B．sad              C．sorrowful        D．tiresome

10．A．fight with         B．agree with       C．argue with     D．meet with

11．A．produce           B．develop           C．make            D．get

12．A．friend            B．manager          C．salesman         D．customer

13．A．invited             B．refused           C．forced           D．allowed

14．A．slept              B．spoken           C．stopped          D．grown

15．A．and              B．but              C．then             D．or

16．A．missed            B．lost              C．stolen            D．gone

17．A．married           B．settled            C．met              D．separated

18．A．away             B．off              C．along            D．up

19．A．choices           B．places            C．lives              D．times

20．A．similar          B．familiar             C．different         D．dangerous