I watch her and her mother decorate her college dormitory room. Everything is in place organized and arranged. Her room nicely accommodates not only her clothes and bric-a-brac(小摆设), but her ___36___ as well. I begin to accept that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she ___37___.
I ___38___ myself thinking of when I held her in the cradle of my arm, in the chair alongside my wife's hospital bed. One day old. So ___39___, so beautiful, so perfect, so ___40___ dependent on her new, ___41___ parents. Time marches relentlessly(不停地).
She looks up now, catching me ___42___ at her, causing her to say to her mother." Mom, Dad's looking at me ___43____”.
The last few days, I touch her arm, her face--- ___44___ that when my wife and I return home, she will not be ___45___ us. I have so much to say, but no ___46___ with which to say it.
My ___47___ changed from the day I drove this child home from the hospital. I saw myself ___48___ that day, and it has led to a lot of places that I would never have found on my own.
She says, “It'll be all right, Dad. I'll be home from school ___49___.” I tell her she will have a great year but I say little else. I am afraid somehow to speak and I only hold on to our good-bye hug a little longer, a little ___50___.
I gaze into her eyes and ___51___to go. My wife's eyes follow her as she leaves us. ___52___ do not. Maybe if I don't look, I can imagine that she really hasn't ___53___ ; I know that what she is embarking upon(开始) is exciting and wonderful. I remember what the world looked like to me ___54___ everything was new.
As I walk to the car with my wife at my side, my eyes are wet, my heart is sore, and I realize that my life is ___55___ forever.
| 小题1: | | A．sister's | B．teachers' | C．mother's | D．roommates' |
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| 小题2: | | A．lives | B．visits | C．separates | D．graduates |
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| 小题3: | | A．force | B．leave | C．find | D．have |
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| 小题4: | | A．small | B．big | C．funny | D．strong |
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| 小题5: | | A．severely | B．totally | C．slightly | D．strictly |
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| 小题6: | | A．innocent | B．casual | C．qualified | D．inexperienced |
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| 小题7: | | A．laughing | B．staring | C．glaring | D．looking |
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| 小题8: | | A．funny | B．frightening | C．kind | D．sad |
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| 小题9: | | A．expecting | B．imaging | C．knowing | D．doubting |
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| 小题10: | | A．for | B．with | C．within | D．along |
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| 小题11: | | A．sentence | B．quotes | C．saying | D．words |
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| 小题13: | | A．easily | B．carefully | C．differently | D．seriously |
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| 小题14: | | A．quick | B．soon | C．fast | D．rapidly |
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| 小题15: | | A．gentler | B．softer | C．tighter | D．warmly |
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| 小题16: | | A．start | B．turn | C．run | D．wonder |
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| 小题17: | | A．Hers | B．My wife's | C．Mine | D．Ours |
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| 小题18: | | A．gone | B．grown | C．born | D．found |
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| 小题19: | | A．although | B．where | C．when | D．why |
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| 小题20: | | A．destroyed | B．beginning | C．ended | D．changing |
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