题目内容：

    Every New Year’s Eve, we had breakfast at Aunt Dot’s house. Aunt Dot lived in a home with shelves of___ and photo albums she had collected over the years. Colorful pots of plants lined her kitchen windowsills and movie posters for  classics___ the walls in the living room.

Although the food was delicious, my most vivid___ of the meal was the centerpiece that Aunt Dot always ____ on her kitchen table-a set of seven  ceramic (陶瓷的) salt and pepper shakers .

It wasn’t until years later, when I was home during a holiday, that I finally asked Aunt Dot about the ____  centerpiece. She was then eighty-seven years old   and she still___ us to the last breakfast of the year. I had come over early that morning to ____  the meal preparations and Aunt Dot was _____  cooking. Then I asked, “Why do you always put them out on New Year’s Eve morning?”

“Well, my dear,” Aunt Dot said in a ____   manner. “It helps to _____  me that even though the holidays are over, there’s another whole year of them coming. I  have learned over my many years that nothing really___ ; every ending in life is really just another new beginning.” She smiled and continued, “Remember that, my dear.” And I___ .

In the spring of that year, after a short illness, Aunt  Dot ___ . She left her  book _____  to my mom and  the movie posters to my sister, but I was  ______  to    learn  that I got the holiday salt and pepper shakers. I ____  Aunt Dot wanted to   make sure I remembered her___ to life.

Now, I continue Aunt Dot’s breakfast____ at  my  own  apartment.  The  pancakes are never as ____  as Aunt Dot’s,  but the center of the table is covered   with those _____  salt and pepper shakers, reminding us all that every ending is    really just another beginning.

1.A.toys B.books C.plates D.products

2.A.painted B.preserved C.decorated D.designed

3.A.memory B.description C.imagination D.dream

4.A.threw B.arranged C.ignored D.noticed

5.A.unusual B.artificial C.common D.expensive

6.A.advised B.ordered C.allowed D.invited

7.A.help with B.play on C.look into D.talk about

8.A.casually B.anxiously C.enthusiastically D.secretly

9.A.standard B.thoughtful C.funny D.polite

10.A.warn B.convince C.remind D.promise

11.A.connects B.changes C.improves D.stops

12.A.hesitated B.nodded C.sighed D.refused

13.A.moved on B.gave up C.fell over D.passed away

14.A.collection B.review C.club D.shop

15.A.disappointed B.surprised C.proud D.relieved

16.A.discover B.admit C.guess D.hope

17.A.introduction B.aid C.attitude D.solution

18.A.suggestion B.service C.trend D.tradition

19.A.significant B.simple C.vivid D.delicious

20.A.empty B.old C.recyclable D.strong