“I am going home to Denmark, Son, and I just want to tell you I love you.”
In my dad’s last telephone call to me, he __36__ that line several times in half an hour. I wasn’t listening at the right level. I heard the words, but not the message, and__37__not their deeper meaning. I believed my dad would live to be 100 years old, __38__my great uncle lived to be 107 years old. I hadn’t felt his __39__over Mum’s death, understood his loneliness or__40__most of his friends had left the world. He often asked my brother and me to create grandchildren__41__he could be a devoted grandfather. I was too busy with my business to really listen.
“Dad’s dead,” sighed my brother not long after dad went back to Denmark.
I was__42__ and just cried for the loss of my dad. This isn’t the __43__it’s supposed to happen. If I had known these were to be dad’s final days, I would have asked to go with him to Denmark. If I had been really listening and thinking, I would have offered comfort during his final hours. After all, a loved one should hold his hand and__44__him as he makes the transition(过渡) from reality to another world. Dad __45__ his departure(离开) repeatedly, but I__46__it. I felt sadness, pain and regret. Why had I not been there for him? He’d always been there for me. In the mornings when I was nine years old, he__47__come home from working 18 hours and __48__ me up by patting my back lightly with his strong powerful hands and whispering, “Time to get up, Son.” __49__I was dressed and ready to go, he had put my schoolbag in my bicycle basket. Recalling these__50__moments with dad brings tears to my eyes.
Now my heart is still in__51__because dad was there for me and I wasn’t there for him. My hearty__52__is: always, always seize the moment to__53__ your love with your loved ones, and keep them__54__when they leave the world. Experiencing the__55__of death with one you love will make you understand the meaning of life better.
小题1: | A.held | B.repeated | C.signed | D.declared |
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小题2: | A.possibly | B.fortunately | C.certainly | D.occasionally |
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小题4: | A.sorrow | B.shock | C.disappointment | D.disadvantage |
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小题5: | A.achieved | B.regarded | C.admitted | D.realized |
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小题6: | A.in case that | B.so that | C.now that | D.for fear that |
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小题7: | A.speechless | B.hopeless | C.useless | D.homeless |
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小题8: | A.thing | B.result | C.case | D.way |
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小题9: | A.comfort | B.believe | C.blame | D.educate |
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小题10: | A.abandoned | B.afforded | C.announced | D.allowed |
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小题11: | A.damaged | B.missed | C.lost | D.replaced |
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小题12: | A.would | B.should | C.could | D.might |
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小题13: | A.dress | B.bring | C.break | D.wake |
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小题14: | A.The moment | B.The first time | C.In time of | D.By the time |
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小题15: | A.terrible | B.sweet | C.stressful | D.delighted |
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小题16: | A.trouble | B.danger | C.confusion | D.pain |
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小题17: | A.advice | B.wish | C.dream | D.aim |
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小题18: | A.provide | B.spare | C.share | D.mix |
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小题19: | A.safe | B.company | C.alive | D.informed |
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小题20: | A.possibility | B.process | C.strength | D.warning |
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