Question

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。

We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are ____, one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say, ____ across the bay to a shabby old house.

I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) ____ memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, _____ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of ___ , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors _____for 200 years.

We soon ___ by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories___back, swift as the tide (潮水).

Suddenly, I long to walk again in the ___where I was once so glorious a child. It still ____a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk __ the rooms in memory. Here, my mother ___ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family ___ into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being ___ them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise ____ attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I ___ ; where I belong. "

She has _ her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human __. To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need __ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the___ of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.

1.A. appearing B. moving C. exposing D. expanding

2.A. referring B. travelling C. pointing D. coming

3.A. shared B. short C. fresh D. treasured

4.A. passed B. raised C. moved D. sent

5.A. home B. duty C. reality D. relief

6.A. built B. lived C. remained D. explored

7.A. catch up B. pull up C. step down D. come down

8.A. falling B. turning C. rushing D. bringing

9.A. yard B. village C. room D. house

10.A. adapts to B. appeals to C. belongs to D. occurs to

11.A. across B. through C. along D. past

12.A. lay B. played C. stood D. sat

13.A. marching B. looking C. breaking D. pouring

14.A. between B. with C. near D. behind

15.A. wonders B. listens C. reacts D. agrees

16.A. began B. grew C. studied D. stayed

17.A. deepened B. recognized C. accepted D. found

18.A. heart B. rights C. interest D. behaviors

19.A. one B. its C. that D. every

20.A. meaning B. expression C. connection D. background

Answer 1