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My wife and I had just finished the 150mile trip home from our daughter's college.It was the first time
in our lives that we would __
1__ for any length of time.We wondered how other people had __
2__ it.
Later in bed, I __
3__ the time I started college.My father had driven me, too.My mother had to stay
home to keep the __
4__from getting into the crops.I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to
__
5__ college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad.I didn't want to get to the city __
6__.I shook hands with my
father in the truck and he didn't say a word.But I knew he was going to make a little __
7__.He finally
said, "I never went to college and __
8__of your brothers did.I can't say don't do this or that, because
everything is __
9__and I don't know what is going to come up, but I think things will __
10__.When you
get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard." I knew that soon I would be __
11__in the big town and
I would be __
12__the life home.
Then my father__
13__the Bible (圣经) tha
t he had read so often.I knew that he would miss it but I
must__
14__it.He just said, "This can help you __
15__you will let it."
When I finished school I took the Bible __
16__to my father.But he said he wanted me to __
17__it.
Now, too late, I remember.It would have been so __
18__
to give it to my daughter when she got out
of the car.But I didn't.My father could give me only a Bible, but I don't really believe now that I gave her
half as __
19__as my father gave me.So the next morning I__
20__up the book and sent it to her.I wrote
a note."This can help you." I said, "if you will let it."
( )1. A. worry ( )2. A. left ( )3. A. wasted ( )4. A. policemen ( )5. A. graduate from ( )6. A. very late ( )7. A. speech ( )8. A. some ( )9. A. impossible ( )10. A. work out ( )11. A. happy ( )12. A. losing ( )13. A. brought about ( )14. A. refuse ( )15. A. if ( )16. A. down ( )17. A. keep ( )18. A. popular ( )19. A. much ( )20. A. set |
B. separate B. stood B. spent B. workers B. go away to B. far away B. living B. one B. different B. die out B. alone B. spending B. brought out B. mark B. unless B. up B. return B. strange B. many B. turned |
C. stay C. enjoyed C. remembered C. cattle C. be dismissed from C. too soon C. promise C. none C. difficult C. hold out C. free C. missing C. brought up C. follow C. but C. back C. post C. ready C. far C. gave |
D. travel D. tried D. killed D. soldiers D. set up D. once again D. progress D. all D. favorite D. break out D. lost D. living D. brought down D. take D. though D. away D. sell D. nice D. good D. wrapped |