阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call __21__and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did __22__the water. Any kind of __23__ride seemed to give him pleasure. __24__he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being __25__the water, moving through it, __26__it all around me. I was not a strong __27__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __28__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __29__those summer days with my father, who __30__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __31__person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __32__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __33__anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __34__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _35__. But my father always __36__and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s __37__.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __38__ an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood,; the rest is __39__.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but __40__, in that childhood, look at us.
21．A. desire B. joy C. anger D. worry
22．A. avoid B. refuse C. praise D. love
23．A. boat B. bus C. train D. bike
24．A. But B. Then C. And D. Still
25．A. on B. off C. by D. in
26．A. having B. leaving C. making D. getting
27．A. swimmer B. rider C. walker D. runner
28．A. hopes B. faiths C. rights D. fears
29．A. spending B. saving C. wasting D. ruining
30．A. should B. would C. had to D. ought to
31．A. next B. only C. other D. last
32．A. away from B. out of C. by D. inside
33．A. put up B. break down C. play with D. work out
34．A. the moment B. the first time C. while D. before
35. A. fishing net B. office things C. wooden chair D. lab equipment
36. A. stood up B. set out C. showed up D. turned out
37. A. fine B. strange C. terrible D. funny
38. A. the student B. the assistant C. myself D. himself
39. A. memory B. wealth C. experience D. practice
40. A. which B. who C. what D. whose
