题目内容：

Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelop fell from one. Inside was an undated ______and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was ______it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a_______woman’s last words to her child. He had to_____ Bethany. “Whoever it is will _______this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t ______a letter like that.”

He supposed if the_______ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he_______recognized the little girl’s face. Even if she’d since left the area, there might be someone in town who would recognize the______.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the_______letter.

______, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n)______herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the ______. As she read her mother’s ______, words she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be_____ .

Gash was only 4 when her mother ______. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally ______ .

She remembers unpacking and looking for the letter, and then_______searching through everything in hopes that it was there. “That’s when I realized it was _____gone by now and I’d never see it again,” she said.

Draper_______the letter in person. He also brought her a children’s book for her son. Gash was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger’s kindness.

1.A. message    B. email    C. postcard    D. letter

2.A. reading    B. destroying    C. forgetting    D. copying

3.A. determined    B. kind    C. selfish    D. dying

4.A. find    B. introduce    C. phone    D. comfort

5.A. understand    B. avoid    C. want    D. like

6.A. tear open    B. cut up    C. throw away    D. pull out

7.A. girl    B. book    C. reporter    D. news

8.A. hardly    B. actually    C. unfortunately    D. accidentally

9.A. author    B. teacher    C. picture    D. stranger

10.A. lost    B. valuable    C. wet    D. broken

11.A. Meanwhile    B. Therefore    C. However    D. Eventually

12.A. editor    B. mother    C. daughter    D. assistant

13.A. ticket    B. magazine    C. article    D. homework

14.A. vocabularies    B. terms    C. languages    D. words

15.A. writing    B. joking    C. playing    D. dreaming

16.A. came back    B. passed away    C. died out    D. calmed down

17.A. donated    B. burned    C. dirtied    D. robbed

18.A. secretly    B. suddenly    C. madly    D. regularly

19.A. almost    B. never    C. still    D. long

20.A. kept    B. delivered    C. composed    D. published