The Quiet Hero 沉默的英雄
It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll   1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t   3    my waitress’ salary to buy.
But what   4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were   5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I   6    I had done for them. I just hoped they   ___7  .
As I walked into the   8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9    a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It   11   :
She took a day off from her busy   12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early   13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to   16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy   17    one in the morning…
It took me long enough to   18    it, but I finally know who the   19    hero is. Mom, I love you!
And suddenly, it was a   20    Mother’s Day, after all.

A．admit B．adopt C．deny D．refuse

A．intended B．liked C．tended D．hesitated

A．stress B．spare C．strengthen D．spend

A．poor B．great C．faithless D．pretty

A．merely B．usually C．never D．often

A．wished B．hoped C．expected D．desired

A．supported B．understood C．approved D．disgusted

A．1iving-room B．kitchen C．bed loom D．study

A．including B．containing C．possessing D．pinning

A．handwriting B．description C．tone D．scratch

A．wrote B．recorded C．memorized D．read

A．event B．content C．schedule D．circumstance

A．or B．for C．but D．so

A．At B．In C．On D．By

A．impressed B．printed C．presented D．pressed

A．buy B．abandon C．get D．swap

A．before B．until C．after D．when

A．see B．hear C．realize D．tell

A．actual B．true C．imaginary D．visual

A．sad B．bitter C．happy D．exciting