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The Quiet Hero      It was Mother's Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I'll   1   that Sunday in 2007 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2   to think of my shortcomings-how many evenings I couldn't spend with my children, and how many things I couldn't   3   my waitress' salary to buy.      But what   4   kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year a Harvard University. They were   5   impolite enough to complain, but here was os much more I   6   I had done for them. I just hoped they   7  .      As I walked into the   8   quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9   a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly  10  of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It  11 :      She took a day off from her busy  12  to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early  13  he could see his hero take batting (击球) practice.  14   their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was  15  his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to  16  his hero's signature, so she stayed with the little boy   17  one in the morning…      It took me long enough to  18  it, but I finally know who the  19  hero is. Mom, I love you!      And suddenly, it was a  20  Mother's Day, after all.

(     )1. A. admit        (     )2. A. intended     (     )3. A. stress       (     )4. A. poor         (     )5. A. merely       (     )6. A. wished       (     )7. A. supported    (     )8. A. living-room  (     )9. A. including     (     )10. A. handwriting     (     )11. A. wrote        (     )12. A. event        (     )13. A. or           (     )14. A. At           (     )15. A. impressed    (     )16. A. buy          (     )17. A. before       (     )18. A. see          (     )19. A. actual       (     )20. A. sad          B. adopt               B. liked               B. spare             B. great               B. usually             B. hoped               B. understood          B. kitchen             B. containing          B. description       B. recorded            B. content             B. for                 B. In                  B. printed             B. abandon             B. until               B. hear              B. true                B. bitter            C. deny            C. tended          C. strengthen      C. faithless       C. never           C. expected      C. approved        C. bedroom         C. possessing      C. tone            C. memorized       C. schedule        C. but             C. On              C. presented       C. get             C. after           C. realize         C. imaginary       C. happy         D. refuse          D. hesitated          D. spend            D. pretty          D. often            D. desired         D. disgusted        D. study             D. pinning         D. scratch           D. read              D. circumstance                    D. so               D. By                D. pressed         D. catch             D. when              D. tell             D. visual          D. exciting

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1-5: ACBBC    6-10: BBBAD    11-15: DCDCB    16-20: CBCBC