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Unit 4 Sharing grammar课时作业 第一节 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 and 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 . 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. You 　19　 have seen her smile!”? I went into the room to say my own goodbye to Connie. There, on the bedside table, was a large Valentine card from Bill. You know, the sentimental kind that 　20　,“To my wonderful wif