Unit 3 Under the sea language points课时作业

I. 完形填空

　　Most people need to hear those "three little words"-I love you. Once in a while, they hear them just in time.

　　I met Connie on the day when she was　1　 to the hospice ward (病房), where I worked as a volunteer. Her husband, Bill, stood 　2　 nearby as she was 　3　 from the gurney (轮床) to the hospital bed.　4　 Connie was in the final stages of her fight against cancer, she was optimistic and cheerful. I finished 　5　 her name on all the hospital supplies she would be using.

　　Connie was a romantic. As we became　6　, she expressed how 　7　 it was to be married 32 years to a carpenter who often called her "a silly woman". "I'd give anything if he'd say 'I love you', but it's just not in his 　8　," she sighed.

　　Bill visited Connie every day. One day, over coffee in the cafeteria, I got him on the　9　 of women and how we need 　10　 in our lives as well as how we love to get sentimental (富有情感的) cards and love letters.

　　"Do you tell Connie you love her?" I asked, and he looked at me　11　 I was crazy.

　　"I don't have to," he said. "She knows I do!"

　　"I'm sure she knows," I said, reaching over and touching his　12　 hands, "but she needs to hear it, Bill. She needs to hear what she has 　13　 to you all these years."

　　Two days later I walked down the hospice ward at noon. There stood Bill, leaning up against the　14　 in the hallway,　15　 at the floor. I already knew from the head nurse that Connie had died at 11 A.M. When Bill saw me, he 　16　 himself to come into my arms for a long time. His face was wet with tears and he was 　17　. Finally, he leaned back against the wall and took a deep breath.

"I have to say something," he said. "I have to say how　18　 I feel about telling her." He stopped to blow his nose. "This morning I told her how much I loved her...and loved being married to her. You 　19　 have seen her smile!"