For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5:30 a.m., except Sunday, and went to work. I__41__saw my father home from work ill. He had no hobbies, __42__taking care of his family.
For 22 years, __43__I left home for college, my father__44__me every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.. He was always interested in my__45__,or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__46__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__47__my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent three days__48__my house. He would not__49__me to pay someone to have it done. All he __50__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to him. But I was too__51__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__52__to hold the brush, or talk to my father.__
53__things happened several times later.
The morning on Sunday. January 16, 1996, my father telephoned me__54__,this time from my sister’s home in Florida. But the__55__came again at 4:40 p.m. that day. My father was in the__56__in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤)．I got on an a
irplane__57__, and on the way, I__58__of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father. I determined that when I arrived, I would__59__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him.
I arrived in Florida at 11:30 p.m., my father had__ 60__at 9:12 p.m.. This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or to wait for me.
小题1:.
．
A．ever
B．never
C．always
D．often小题2:.
．
A．except
B．rather than
C．more than
D．or rather小题3:.
A．becau
se
B．before
C．although
D．since小题4:.
．
A．visited
B．praised
C．telephoned
D．met小题5:.
．
A．work
B．life
C．study 
D．plan小题6:.
．
A．worry
B．care
C．talk
D．look小题7:.
．
A．built
B．found
C．bought
D．sold小题8:.
．
A．repairing
B．painting
C．cleaning
D．decorating小题9:.
．
A．teach
B．order
C．force
D．allow小题10:.
A．asked
B．kept
C．ordered
D．served小题11:.
．
A．smart
B．upset
C．busy
D．tired小题12:.
．
A．practice
B．task
C．tea
D．time小题13:.
．
A．Different
B．Similar 
C．Funny
D．Stra
nge小题14:.
．
A．as usual
B．in pain
C．casually
D．finally小题15:.
A．call
B．moment
C．situation
D．scene小题16:.
．
A．church
B．school
C．home
D．hospital小题17:.
．
A．immediately
B．happily
C．gradually
D．carefully小题18:.
．
A．heard
B．spoke
C．thought
D．demanded小题19:.
．
A．take up
B．make up
C．turn up
D．put up小题20:.
．
A．started out
B．given in
C．passed away
D．come back
