My now 7-year-old grandson, who lives 100 miles away, has kept my phone number in his mind since he was 4. Since then, he has been  1  me every night before he goes to bed to tell me about his day or just to say “Good night, Grandma.”

He also often calls me at other times during the day just to  2  a happy or sad moment. Many times he’s playing a basketball with one hand, or laughing with a friend about something that I  3  quite understand, or crying about something he may or may not want to talk about while I’m on the other end of the phone. I just listen and empathize (同情) or laugh with him—just share his current (當前的)  4 . I always let him control the  5  , and the time he’s on the phone with me. Many times I just listen to him play, or play games we’ve made up together that we can play over the   6  .   

The only time I take control of the  7  is when he’s ready to say goodbye at night. Often there are four special   8  I say to him every night. One night I thought maybe he was tired to hear those, so I didn’t say them. He  9  called me back and told me that I forgot to say those sentences! I haven’t missed saying them since then!

My friends all know that he is the most important for me.  10  I’m in church(教堂), or some place where I really can’t take his call, I always politely excuse myself and talk to him, even if it’s just for a minute to tell him I’ll call him back in a few minutes.

He knows that he takes first place in my heart.

1.                A．troubling       B．seeing          C．promising D．calling

2.                A．spend          B．enjoy           C．share D．experience

3.                A．never          B．ever           C．nearly    D．fully

4.                A．secret          B．problem        C．plan D．feeling

5.                A．action          B．result          C．topic D．team

6.                A．experience      B．letter           C．Internet  D．phone

7.                A．work           B．talk            C．game D．voice

8.                A．words          B．messages       C．sentences     D．rules

9.                A．immediately     B．usually         C．probably D．especially

10.               A．Since          B．Unless         C．Before    D．As

英語趣味閱讀

　　Last Thursday, Susan felt very ill (1) work. She kept coughing and every (2) of her body ached.“I think I've got flu(流感),”she (3) Mr. Robinson, the boss. “If I'm not (4) tomorrow morning, I won't come to the office.”When she (5) home, her mother (6) her straight to (7) “If you're not any better tomorrow I shall send for the doctor,”she said.

　　That night Susan became (8) . Mrs. Brown was (9) and in the morning she sent for the doctor. When Dr. James, their family doctor (10) . He (11) Susan's breathing, looked at her tongue (舌頭)and (12) her temperature.

　　When Susan is well. Dr. James won't ask (13) for any money. In Britain, every person (14) pay money each week or month. Then, if they are (15) , they don't have to (16) the doctor. If the doctor orders medicine, they pay only a small sum (17) the chemist. If Susan had been (18) ill, the doctor (19) have sent her to hospital, and this would not (20) her anything.

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