Last week, only two people came to look at the house, ____ wanted to buy it.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从26—45各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案（每空1分，共20分）。
When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son looked   26 at me and said “I love you”. I didn’t know what to say.    27  several seconds I stood there and    28  down at him. My first thought was that he must need   29  while doing his homework   30   he was trying to prepare me for some   31  .
“   32  ,” he said, “My teacher said we should tell our parents that we love them and see what they say. It’s an experiment.”
The next day I   33  his teacher at my office to find out more about this “   34  ” and how the other parents had responded (反应).
“  35  , most of the fathers did the same as you ,: the teacher explained, “Feeling   36  is an important part of   37 . It’s something all human beings  38 . What I’m trying to tell the children is that it’s too   39  that we don’t express those feelings. A boy should be  40  to tell his dad that he loves him.”
The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how difficult it is for  41 of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.
When my son came to me  42 , I held on to him for an extra second. And just   43 he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly  44 , “Hey, I love you .”
I didn’t know if saying that would make  45 of us healthier, but we did feel pretty better.

My money ________.I must go to the bank to draw some of my savings out before I've none in hand.

She brought with her three friends, none of         I had ever met before.

One dark stormy night, an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be  36  for the night, “I’m very sorry,” the clerk on night shift said politely, “we are all  37 tonight.  38 ,you could stay in my room if you don’t mind. I’m 39 ,so I’ll be here.” The young man gave the sincere advice.
The elderly couple accepted his  40  with gratitude. They apologized for the  41  they had caused him. The next day, the rain stopped and it  42 . When the old gentleman went to pay his bill, the same clerk said, “The room you and your wife stayed in is not a proper   43  room in this hotel, so you don’t need to pay.”
The old gentleman nodded in  44  : “You are an employee that every boss in the hotel business would dream of . Perhaps someday I’ll build a hotel for you.” The clerk was  45  but, deciding that the guest must have been 46  , he gave the remark  47 thought.
Two years later, the young man received a letter from the old gentleman, in which he  48 the experience of that dark stormy night. The letter also  49 a formal invitation, asking that young man to pay a visit.
At a street corner in Manhattan, the young man met his  50  guest. The old gentleman, pointing to a magnificent new building  51  over the crossroads, “Look, that is the hotel I 52 to build for you. I hope you will  53  it for me .Remember what I said then? Well, I was  54  about it.”
The young man stammered, “But…will there be any   55 , sir? Why do you choose me? And who are you?”
“My name is William Aster.” This building was none other than the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a symbol of supreme status and honor in New York.