Several months later, the director of the orphanage came to give a report on Sunday night at my grandfather’s church,   44   Grandpa and his family also attended.

When he   41   replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the cases, which he had nailed shut. His brand new glasses, having   42   him $20 that very morning, were heading for China! He had to drive home   43  .

was sending to an orphanage（孤儿院）in China. On his way home, he   39   into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. He remembered putting them there that morning, so he drove back to the church. His   40   proved fruitless.

On a cold Saturday, Mother’s father was building some wooden cases for the clothes his  38

As a saying goes, every bean has its black. It is impossible to make no mistakes all one’s life. My grandpa Nybakken, a carpenter, is no   36  . Several decades ago he made a mistake ?a（n）perfect mistake,   37  .

第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

A. who           B. what           C. how          D. which

35. He finds his daughter is quite different from _________ she was five years ago.

A. when                B. before        C. after           D. since