完形填空（共20小题，每小题1．5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to  26  in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the  27  ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too  28  for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of   29  .

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there  30  between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She  31 her head and continued to sew the quilt.

I was very worried because I thought I had  32  her. I was  33  and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:

“Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread．Sometimes it  34  , but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt   35  . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread．It can hardly be seen     36  , but it’s really there. Love is  37 .”

I listened carefully but I  38  her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly  39  seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked  40 . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father   41  on the country road．

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t  42  me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”  43  his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and  44 . But from this experience, I understand that love is just  45  in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

【小题】 A. keep fit   B. rise early      C. earn money      D. collect money

【小题】A. magic       B. romantic        C. fantastic       D. attractive

【小题】A. simple      B. easy            C. relaxing        D. luxurious(奢侈)

【小题】 A. the questionB. question       C. reach           D. control

【小题】 A. feeling    B. love            C. quarrel         D. smile

【小题】 A. raised     B. shook           C. lifted          D. bowed

【小题】A. hurt        B. injured         C. wounded         D. harmed

【小题】 A. in great surprise             B. in a great embarrassment

C. with delight                       D. in great astonishment

【小题】A. happens     B. comes about     C. appears         D. occurs

【小题】A. warm and soft                  B. hot and hard

C. thin and cool                      D. strong and durable (耐用的)

【小题】 A. somewhere and sometime        B. anywhere or anytime

C. more or less                  D. everyhere and everywhere

【小题】A. inside      B. outside         C. faraway         D. nearby

【小题】A. could believe           B. couldn’t understand

C. wouldn’t recognize     D. might know

【小题】 A. got sick   B. got stuck       C. threw up        D. became disabled

【小题】 A. quite healthyB. very pale     C. fairly red      D. much surprised

【小题】A. jump high   B. go hurriedly    C. run fast        D. walk slowly

【小题】 A. think about B. talk with       C. worry about     D. laugh at

【小题】A. Reading     B. Listening       C. Speaking        D. Writing

【小题】A. fresh rosesB. gold ring     C. sweet kisses      D.beautiful jewelry

【小题】A. a thread    B. a needle       C. the cloth        D. the cotton

---Is it Jim who is driving the new car?

   ---Probably. I know he has recently bought a ______ car.

A. shiny German black                    B. black shiny German

C. shiny black German                      D. black German shiny

------Is it Jim who is driving the new car?

  -------Probably. I know he has recently bought a ______car.

A. shiny black German                     B. black shiny German

C. shiny German black                     D. black German shiny

My father is now in his late forty but he looks young for his age. He is very strict with me, especial in my studies. Besides, I know he loves me deeply in his heart. Once I had failed to do well in my math exam, I was afraid that it would make my father angry and disappointing. On contrary, he said I had tried my best and offered him a few words of encouragement. He told me that there is no need to feel bad about one and two failures and the most important thing is to learn anything from failure and never give up. Today is Father’s Day and I want to say thank you for my father.

I never got along well with Dad. But when he was dying, I set off for Nebraska to be with him and my family. I stopped for the night at a hotel with a pool, hoping a swim would relax me.
The pool area was empty as I walked into the still water. A man in a bathing suit appeared. He sat on the edge of the pool with his legs moving up and down in the water. He had dark hair and deep brown eyes and smiled. ‘Where are you going?’ he asked. When I told him something about my father, he asked how we got along. I tried to change the subject, but then for some reason, I told him everything.
Finally the man said, ‘Even with all the trouble, remember, your father still loves you.’ All at once, warm and clear childhood memories came flooding back: Dad running alongside my wobbling (摇摆的) bicycle, the proud hug he gave me at my high school graduation, his laugh when I caught him off guard with a tickle(挠痒). ‘Yes, I know he does love me,’ I heard myself say. And for the first time these years I believed it. The man left, leaving me alone with my comforting thoughts.
Back in my room, as I went to bed, I decided it was time to forgive（原谅） my father. Then I wished he’d forgiven me too. The phone bell woke me up at 3 a.m. My sister’s voice sent a shock (寒战) through me: Dad had just died. I had wanted to see him and make peace. But as my sadness grew, I remembered that the man by the pool had already brought Dad and me together.
64. From the passage we learn that the author __________.
A. didn’t know his father was seriously ill        B. always thought highly of his father
C. lived in Nebraska far away from his family       D. was going to see his father
65. When the author was in the swimming pool, __________.
A. many other people were there, too
B. he talked a lot with the man by the pool
C. he greeted the man by the pool first
D. the man by the pool told him everything about his family
66. What made the author change his original（原始的）idea about his father?
A. That he was made to think of the fact that his father loved him.
B. That the man by the pool mentioned(提及) his interesting childhood.
C. That he remembered his father had taught him to ride a bike.
D. That he knew his father would leave him forever.
67. In the last paragraph, the author was sad that he __________.
A. hadn’t accepted the kind stranger’s advice
B. had no chance to make peace with his father
C. hadn’t respected his father when he was young
D. hadn’t stayed with his father before.