Each spring is a new blossom of wild flowers in the ditch. There is one special blue flower that has always caught my eyes. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours. Every day for about two weeks,I see these beautiful flowers.

This spring,I started a wild flower garden in my yard. I could look out of the kitchen window and saw the flowers while doing the dishes. I often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look great in my garden. Every day,I drove past the flowers,thinking, "I'll stop on my way home and dig them,but I don't want to get my good clothes dirty. " Whatever the reason,I never stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a shovel (鐵鏟) to do it.

One day on my way home from work,I saw that some workers were repairing the road and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I said to myself, "Oh,that's terrible. I should have done it when I first saw them blooming this spring. " I was very sad for this.

A week ago I was shocked to learn that my oldest sister got cancer and she would die soon. She was twenty years elder than me and unfortunately,because of age and distance,we were not very close. I realized the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my eldest sister and me. I do believe that God has given us some time to plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us.

And yes,if I see the blue flowers again,you bet I would stop and move them to my wild flower garden.

(   ) 11. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

   A. Pretty Blue Flowers   B. Flowers and I

   C. My Eldest Sister   D. Nice Memory

(   ) 12. The writer didn't dig the flowers because         .

   A. she waited for her husband to do that

   B. she didn't want to hurt them

   C. she didn't make up her mind to do that

   D. she wasn't allowed to do that

(   ) 13. The writer thinks the flowers         .

   A. are too beautiful to be dug

   B. are like her eldest sister

   C. would be more beautiful in her garden if she dug them

   D. are similar to the relationship between her eldest sister and her

(   ) 14. We can know from the passage that         .

   A. the writer communicated very often with her eldest sister

   B. the blue flowers were far away from the writer's house

   C. the writer didn't notice the flowers until they disappeared

   D. the flowers looked the most beautiful in the morning

(   ) 15. How does the writer feel after she saw what happened to the flowers?

   A. They shouldn't be planted in the yard.

   B. They were too beautiful to be kept.

   C. She was angry with those workers.

   D. She realized something more important than the flowers themselves.

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