阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

During my second year of college, I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church, the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.

To be  36 , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the  37 would be---a very low figure that  38 one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about the  39 and decided to move in.

At the end of the term I had planned to find  40  living place, since the daughter was to  41  home. To my delight, they  42 that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their  43  ----their people became my people. I   44  accepted the offer.

As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be  45  to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I  46 that she was more independent than I first  47 .

We finally fell in love,  48  , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more  49  than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go  50 largely because we knew that we are deeply  51 .

It isn’t about marriage… It’s about  52  . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as  53  as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be  54  ----you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.

Is there somebody you can depend on?  And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is  55  to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

36. A. honest                     B. surprised                C. friendly          D. pleased

37. A. price                       B. rent                      C. money            D. pay

38. A. had                        B. included                C. made              D. contained

39. A. idea                        B. plan                      C. service           D. offer

40. A. same                      B. different               C. another          D. extra

41. A. return                     B. go                        C. get                       D. leave

42. A. ordered                  B. agreed                  C. arranged         D. suggested

43. A. house                     B. family                  C. group            D. friend

44. A. happily                   B. sorrowfully           C. evidently        D. efficiently

45. A. bad                        B. exciting                 C. nice               D. strange

46. A. realized            B. thought             C. knew          D. doubted

47. A. saw                 B. told                      C. imagined               D. believed

48. A. separated                B. parted                C. left                       D. married

49. A. smooth            B. challenging          C. exciting            D. different

50. A. backward            B. eastward               C. forward                D. westward

51. A. hated               B. cared                C. felt                       D. liked

52. A. friendship           B. relation              C. love               D. family

53. A. close                B. good              C. far                 D. long

54. A. away                B. out                  C. in                  D. around

55. A. nobody           B. somebody        C. anybody         D. everybody