阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My sister, Cathy, who lives in Vancouver, sent me a package full of Christmas gifts. She told me that she had ______ it in advance to make sure it would arrive at my house weeks before the ______. Christmas was drawing near, but no package arrived. Cathy checked the tracking number every ______ with Canada Post, and every evening she would call me to ______ if there was any sign of it on our end.
The ______ always started with questions about the package, but twenty minutes later we would still be ______. We talked about our family, such as parents, kids, ______ and so on. Of course we also talked about our jobs. We had never made so much ______ for each other! The talk always took us back to the hours we spent together in our childhood.
By Christmas Eve we finally had to ______ the fact that the package was ______ lost. On Christmas morning, Cathy got on the phone with everyone in my ______ and told them what she had sent. Later on, after a big Christmas dinner, I had forgotten all about the ______ package when there was a knock on the door. Who could it be at such a time? As I ______ the door, a man was standing there. “I ______ this is yours.” He said, holding a package. Just then I ______that it had been delivered to the wrong address. “I just got home from vacation,” he explained, “______ I wanted you to have this in time to open for Christmas.” I thanked this ______ stranger for taking so much trouble to _____ this gift to us on Christmas Day, and ______ thanked God that the package had been lost in the first place.
The real gift that holiday season was the new ______ to my sister who lives far away from us. Now there’s one gift I never want to give back!

A．booked B．decorated C．mailed D．listed

A．appointment B．holiday C．deadline D．party

A．year B．month C．week D．morning

A．find out B．take out C．figure out D．pick out

A．complaint B．discussion C．conversation D．quarrel

A．kidding B．arguing C．chatting D．scolding

A．gifts B．husbands C．secrets D．clothing

A．food B．money C．achievement D．time

A．accept B．ignore C．consider D．study

A．entirely B．suddenly C．mostly D．simply

A．restaurant B．house C．office D．class

A．terrible B．missing C．big D．outstanding

A．opened B．locked C．left D．watched

A．understand B．forget C．know D．believe

A．expected B．dreamed C．realized D．remembered

A．because B．but C．or D．so

A．kind B．honest C．polite D．generous

A．show B．present C．return D．offer

A．silently B．carefully C．gently D．actually

A．connection B．guide C．recognition D．closeness