完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Night after night, as was often the case, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the
36 ,then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started
37 me. But it did. Finally one night, I shouted out as her, “Don’t do that any more – your hands are too
38 ！” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother
39 my day with that familiar
40 of her love.
With the years passing, my thoughts
41 to that night, when I missed my mother’s hands, missed her goodnight
42 on my forehead. Sometimes the incident seemed very
43 , while sometimes far away. But always it was hidden in the back of my
44 . Now Mom is in her seventies, and those hands that I
45 thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my
46 . And now my own children are grown and gone. One Thanksgiving Eve,
47 I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a
48 hand hesitantly run across my face to
49 the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so
50 , touched my brow.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night and my young voice
51 . “Don’t do that any more – your hands are too rough!”
52 , I caught Mom’s hand in hand, saying how
53 I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know
54 I was talking about. She had forgotten, and forgiven long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new
55 for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
| 小题1: | | A．place | B．way | C．order | D．shape |
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| 小题2: | | A．pleasing | B．frightening | C．satisfying | D．annoying |
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| 小题3: | | A．sweet | B．tough | C．ugly | D．rough |
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| 小题4: | | A．take up | B．give up | C．end up | D．break up |
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| 小题5: | | A．expression | B．symbol | C．promise | D．experience |
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| 小题6: | | A．remained | B．returned | C．occurred | D．missed |
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| 小题7: | | A．story | B．greeting | C．kiss | D．song |
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| 小题8: | | A．close | B．serious | C．different | D．unusual |
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| 小题9: | | A．brain | B．mind | C．spirit | D．heart |
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| 小题10: | | A．once | B．even | C．still | D．always |
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| 小题11: | | A．husband | B．children | C．family | D．father |
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| 小题12: | | A．as | B．before | C．although | D．since |
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| 小题13: | | A．rough | B．reliable | C．thin | D．familiar |
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| 小题14: | | A．tidy | B．touch | C．brush | D．wiped |
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| 小题15: | | A．gently | B．friendly | C．closely | D．weakly |
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| 小题16: | | A．wept | B．whispered | C．complained | D．struggled |
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| 小题17: | | A．On time | B．All at once | C．Once again | D．As usual |
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| 小题18: | | A．grateful | B．anxious | C．sorry | D．excited |
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| 小题20: | | A．memory | B．sense | C．pleasure | D．appreciation |
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