题目内容：

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Though she had been in a coma（昏迷）for nearly six months, it was still a    when my grandmother passed away．I was not yet thirteen when she  ．I'd understood that death awaited her, but in those first moments of knowing, I could not   that "eventually" had finally come to pass．

Friends came to the funeral home to pay their last respects to my grandmother and to show their support for my mother．Not   where to be or what to do, I stayed off to the side．The   finally ended with the arrival of my friend Kelly．

Kelly and I had been friends ever since she was three and Four．We were “home" friends, the kind who rode bikes together after school, went   to a KFC a few blocks away, even though we weren't allowed to leave the block．

At the funeral home, Kelly came right to me．In her hands were two packages of M&M's．Kelly knew that was one of my   ．We had often taken long trips to the store for    ．We sat in the back, eating M&M's and talking quietly．A   experience had suddenly become easier to bear, with a childhood offering of chocolates and the    of a devoted friend．

Trying to come up with something to offer a heartbroken person is    ．Kelly had understood, even at twelve, that there wasn't much she could do to reduce my pain   be there with me and bring something that just might make me  ．

Now, whenever Kelly and I find ourselves at funeral home for family member of ours, the other has always shown up    M&M's, a small offering of    to take the edge off the hovering sorrow．We've   that when we' re old, the one who dies first will have a crazy old lady throwing M&M' s into her grave．M&M's will     be significant to me．They will     me that even when something as painful and powerful as    comes to claim what’s most important to me, there will always be Kelly… and her chocolate．

M&M's, melt（溶解）in your     , not in your hand．

1.A．shock          B. topic           C．story        D．custom

2.A．returned       B．died            C．cried        D．recovered

3.A．tell           B．pretend         C．find         D．believe

4.A．knowing        B．seeing          C．guessing     D．planning

5.A．activity       B．introduction    C．ceremony     D．awkwardness

6.A．directly       B．separately      C．secretly     D．hurriedly

7.A．collections    B．favorites       C．presents     D．choices

8.A．dolls          B．pens            C．dresses      D．chocolates

9.A．valuable       B．familiar        C．painful      D．previous

10.A．duty          B．dream           C．company      D．greeting

11.A．strange       B．clever          C．difficult    D．reasonable

12.A．but           B．or              C．so           D．and

13.A. think         B．wonder          C．smile        D．jump

14.A．for           B．with            C．at           D．by

15.A．cheer         B．excitement      C．reward       D．patience

16.A．worried       B．remembered      C．suspected    D．joked

17.A．even          B．always          C．also         D．merely

18.A．warm          B．promise         C．recur        D．remind

19.A．darkness      B．pressure        C．death        D．failure

20.A．mouth         B．heart           C．arms         D．eyes