第二部分：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

For my daughter’s 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn’t really have the   41   but we knew how much this band meant to her.

The night before she was like a   42   at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to   43   with us, because she couldn’t   44  . On the night of the   45   it was good to see her so   46   and excited, as she and her boyfirend set off.

Needless to say when they   47   after midnight, with T-shirts and lots of pictures of the band,   48   her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well   49  . This will be a memory she would   50   forget, and nor would we.

51   full of excitement from the night before, the following day they   52   to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I   53  , loving the fact that she had not   54   that quality as she grew up.

Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a   55   each. On each present were the words “Because you are the   56   mum / dad in the world”. When we said our thank-yous and told her she didn’t have to, we asked her   57   she had bought us gifts. Her   58   was simply “Just because I love you”.

This wasn’t something   59   from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her   60  , and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn’t have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.

41. A. money                B. time                         C. interest                            D. news

42. A. worker               B. baby                        C. kid                                 D. parent

43. A. dance                 B. learn                       C.walk                                D. sit

44. A. speak                  B. sleep                        C. stand                               D. leave

45. A. concert               B. holiday                    C. party                               D. travel

46. A. healthy               B. happy                      C. pretty                              D. surprised

47. A. stayed                 B. left                          C. returned                          D. turned

48. A. worrying about    B. caring for                C. looking at                        D. listening to

49. A. lent                    B. earned                      C. saved                              D. spent

50. A. ever                   B. never                       C. often                               D. neither

51. A. Still                   B. Only                        C. Just                                D. Also

52. A. continued            B. tried                        C. decided                           D. struggled

53. A. refused               B. cried                        C. shouted                           D. laughed

54. A. kept                   B. lost                          C. realized                           D. discovered

55. A. gift                       B. prize                        C. ticket                              D. picture

56. A. richest                B. oldest                       C. best                                D. cleverest

57. A. where                 B. how                         C. when                              D. why

58. A. way                    B. answer                            C. suggestion                       D. idea

59. A. important            B. ordinary                   C. new                                D. valuable

60. A. feelings                     B. concerns                   C. understandings                 D. opinions