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For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5: 30 a. m., except Sunday, and went to work.I__
1__
saw my father home from work ill.He had no hobbies, __
2__taking care of his family.
For 22 years, __
3__I left home for college, my father__
4__me every Sunday at 9?00 a. m..He was
always interested in my__
5__, or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__
6__about his
lot (生活状况) in life.The calls even came when he and my mother were in other states.
Nine years ago when I__
7__my first house, my father,67 years old, spent three days__
8__my house.
He would not__
9__me to pay someone to have it done.All he __
10__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and
to talk to him.But I was too__
11__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__
12__to hold the
brush, or talk to my father.__
13__things happened several times later.
The morning on Sunday.January 16,1996, my father telephoned me__
14__, this time from my sister's
home in Florida.But the__
15__came again at 4?40 p. m.that day.My father was in the__
16__in Florida
with an aneurysm (动脉瘤). I got on an airplane__
17__, and on the way, I__
18__of all the times I had
not ta ken the time to talk to my father.I determined that when I arrived, I would__
19__for the lost time,
and have a nice long talk with him.
I arrived in Florida at 11?30 p. m., my father had__
20__at 9?12 p. m..This time it was he who did
not have time to talk, or to wait for me.
( )1. A. ever ( )2. A. other than ( )3. A. because ( )4. A. visited ( )5. A. work ( )6. A. worry ( )7. A. built ( )8. A. repairing ( )9. A. teach ( )10. A. asked ( )11. A. smart ( )12. A. practice ( )13. A. Different ( )14. A. as usual ( )15. A. call ( )16. A. church ( ) 17. A. immediately ( )18. A. heard ( )19. A. take up ( )20. A. started out |
B. never B. rather than B. before B. praised B. life B. care B. found B. painting B. advise B. kept B. upset B. task B. Similar B. in pain B. moment B. school B. happily B. spoke B. make up B. given in |
C. always C. more than C. although C. telephoned C. study C. talk C. purchased C. cleaning C. force C. ordered C. busy C. tea C. Funny C. casually C. situation C. home C. gradually C. thought C. turn up C. passed away |
D. often D. or rather D. since D. met D. plan D. look D. sold D. decorating D. allow D. served D. tired D. time D. Strange D. finally D. scene D. hospital D. carefully D. demanded D. put up D. come back |