单项选择题
| I’ll never forget that summer day in
1965 when my mother suddenly died of an unexplained illness at the age of 36.
Later that afternoon, a police officer stopped by to ask for my father’s
(13) for the hospital to (14) Mother’s valve
(心脏瓣膜). I was shocked. I ran into the house (15) . At 14 I
just couldn’t understand why anyone would take apart a person I (16)
. (17) my father told him, "Yes." "How can you let
them do that to her" I (18) him. "Linda," he said
quietly, (19) his arms around me, "the greatest (20)
you can give is a (21) of yourself. Your mother and
I decided (22) that if we can make (23) in
just one person’s life after we die, our death will have (24)
." The (25) my father taught me that day became one of the most (26) in my life. Years passed. I married and had a family of my own. In 1986, my father became seriously ill. He (27) told me that when he died, he wanted to donate (捐献) (28) was (29) good condition, especially his eyes. My father died and we donated his eyes as he had wanted. Three days later, my daughter said," Mom, I’ m so (30) of what you did for Grandpa." At that moment I realized that my father gave much more than (31) What he (32) behind sparkled in my daughter’s eyes-pride. |