“I am going home to Denmark, Son, and I just want to tell you I love you.”
In my dad’s last telephone call to me, he __36__ that line several times in half an hour. I wasn’t listening at the right level. I heard the words, but not the message, and__37__not their deeper meaning. I believed my dad would live to be 100 years old, __38__my great uncle lived to be 107 years old. I hadn’t felt his __39__over Mum’s death, understood his loneliness or__40__most of his friends had left the world. He often asked my brother and me to create grandchildren__41__he could be a devoted grandfather. I was too busy with my business to really listen.
“Dad’s dead,” sighed my brother not long after dad went back to Denmark.
I was__42__ and just cried for the loss of my dad. This isn’t the __43__it’s supposed to happen. If I had known these were to be dad’s final days, I would have asked to go with him to Denmark. If I had been really listening and thinking, I would have offered comfort during his final hours. After all, a loved one should hold his hand and__44__him as he makes the transition(过渡) from reality to another world. Dad __45__ his departure(离开) repeatedly, but I__46__it. I felt sadness, pain and regret. Why had I not been there for him? He’d always been there for me. In the mornings when I was nine years old, he__47__come home from working 18 hours and __48__ me up by patting my back lightly with his strong powerful hands and whispering, “Time to get up, Son.” __49__I was dressed and ready to go, he had put my schoolbag in my bicycle basket. Recalling these__50__moments with dad brings tears to my eyes.
Now my heart is still in__51__because dad was there for me and I wasn’t there for him. My hearty__52__is: always, always seize the moment to__53__ your love with your loved ones, and keep them__54__when they leave the world. Experiencing the__55__of death with one you love will make you understand the meaning of life better.
| 小题1: | | A．held | B．repeated | C．signed | D．declared |
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| 小题2: | | A．possibly | B．fortunately | C．certainly | D．occasionally |
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| 小题4: | | A．sorrow | B．shock | C．disappointment | D．disadvantage |
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| 小题5: | | A．achieved | B．regarded | C．admitted | D．realized |
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| 小题6: | | A．in case that | B．so that | C．now that | D．for fear that |
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| 小题7: | | A．speechless | B．hopeless | C．useless | D．homeless |
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| 小题8: | | A．thing | B．result | C．case | D．way |
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| 小题9: | | A．comfort | B．believe | C．blame | D．educate |
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