For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5:30 a.m., except Sunday, and went to work. I__41__saw my father home from work ill. He had no hobbies, __42__taking care of his family.

For 22 years, __43__I left home for college, my father__44__me every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.. He was always interested in my__45__,or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__46__about his lot (生活状况) in life. The calls even came when he and my mother were in other states.

Nine years ago when I__47__my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent three days__48__my house. He would not__49__me to pay someone to have it done. All he __50__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to him. But I was too__51__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__52__to hold the brush, or talk to my father.__ 53__things happened several times later.

The morning on Sunday. January 16, 1996, my father telephoned me__54__,this time from my sister’s home in Florida. But the__55__came again at 4:40 p.m. that day. My father was in the__56__in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤)．I got on an airplane__57__, and on the way, I__58__of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father. I determined that when I arrived, I would__59__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him.

I arrived in Florida at 11:30 p.m., my father had__ 60__at 9:12 p.m.. This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or to wait for me.

1..

．A. ever　           B．never            C．always         D．often

2..

．A. except           B．rather than        C．more than       D．or rather

3..

A. because          B．before            C．although       D．since

4..

．A. visited          B．praised           C．telephoned        D．met

5..

．A. work             B．life              C．study         D．plan

6..

．A. worry           B．care             C．talk            D．look

7..

．A. built            B．found            C．bought             D．sold

8..

．A. repairing        B．painting          C．cleaning          D．decorating

9..

．A. teach            B．order            C．force              D．allow

10..

A. asked            B．kept             C．ordered        D．served

11..

．A. smart　　        B．upset            C．busy           D．tired

12..

．A. practice             B．task             C．tea            D．time

13..

．A. Different            B．Similar          C．Funny          D．Strange

14..

．A. as usual         B．in pain          C．casually       D．finally

15..

A. call               B．moment         C．situation        D．scene

16..

．A. church          B．school          C．home             D．hospital

17..

．A. immediately      B．happily         C．gradually       D．carefully

18..

．A. heard            B．spoke           C．thought         D．demanded

19..

．A .take up          B．make up         C．turn up         D．put up

20..

．A. started out       B．given in         C．passed away  D．come back

My old father began to study computer science at the age of sixty in order that he might ________ times. 

A young Scottish lady, like a lot of teens today, got tired of home. The daughter objected to her family’s 　1.　lifestyle and said, “I don’t want your God. I am leaving!” She left home. Before long, she was disappointed and unable to find a job, so she took to the streets to do everything she could to 　2.　. Many years passed by, her father died, her mother grew 　3.　, and the daughter became more and more stubborn in her way of life.

No  4. was made between mother and daughter during these years. The mother, having 　 heard of her daughter’s whereabouts, went to the poor part of the city in 　5.　of her daughter. She stopped at 　6.　of the rescue missions(收容所) with a simple speech. “Would you allow me to 　7.　this picture?” It was a picture of the smiling, gray-haired mother with a handwritten 　8.　at the bottom: “I love you still … come home!”

One day the daughter wandered into a rescue mission for a hot meal. She sat 　9.　listening to the service, all the while letting her 　10.　wander over to the bulletin board. There she saw the picture and thought, could that be my mother?

She couldn’t 　11.　until the service was over. She stood and went to look. It was her mother, and there were those words, “I love you still … come home!”　12.　she stood in front of the picture, she wept. It was too 　13.　to be true.

It was night, but she was so 　14.　by the message that she started walking home.　15.　the time she arrived it was early in the morning. She was afraid and 　16.　her way timidly. As she knocked, the door 　17.　open on its own. She thought someone must broken into the house. Concerned for her mother’s 　18.　, the young girl ran to the bedroom and shook her mother awake and said, “It’s me! It’s me! I’m home!”

The mother couldn’t believe her eyes. They fell into each other’s 　19.　. The daughter said, “I was so worried and thought someone had broken in.” The mother replied gently, “No, dear. From the day you left, that door has never been 　20.　.”