完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分,满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20题各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最
佳选项。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to __1__ in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the __2_ ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too __3_ for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of 4__.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there __5__ between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She 6_ her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had _7_ her. I was _8__ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:
“Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread．Sometimes it __9_, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt _10__. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread．It can hardly be seen __11, but it’s really there. Love is _12_.”
I listened carefully but I __13_ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly __14 seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked __15_. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father _16__ on the country road．
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t __17 me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”__18_ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and 19__. But from this experience, I understand that love is just __20__ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
1．A．keep fit B．rise early C．earn money D．collect money
2．A．magic B．romantic C．fantastic D．attractive
3．A．simple B．easy C．relaxing D．luxurious
4．A．the question B．question C．reach D．control
5．A．feeling B．love C．quarrel D．smile
6．A．raised B．shook C．nodded D．bowed
7．A．hurt B．injured C．wounded D．harmed
8．A．in great surprise B．in a great embarrassment
C．with deep depression D．at extreme sorrow
9．A．happens B．comes about C．appears D．occurs
10．A．warm and soft B．hot and hard C．thin and cool D．strong and durable
11．A．somewhere and sometime B．anywhere or anytime
C．more or less D．here and there
12．A．inside B．outside C．faraway D．nearby
13．A．could believe B．couldn’t understand
C．wouldn’t recognize D．might know
14．A．got sick B．got stuck C．threw up D．became disabled
15．A．quite healthy B．very pale C．fairly red D．much surprised
16．A．jump high B．go hurriedly C．run fast D．walk slowly
17．A．think about B．talk with C．worry about D．laugh at
18．A．Reading B．Seeing C．Saying D．Writing
19．A．fresh roses B．gold ring C．sweet kisses D．beautiful jewelry
20．A．a thread B．a needle C．the cloth D．the cotton
