II. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节完形填空（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do .But that Sunday in 2008 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I tended to think of my shortcomings —how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children , and how many things I couldn’t   21  my waitress’ salary to buy .
But what   22   kids I had! They were   23   impolite enough to complain.
As I walked into the kitchen quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   24    a dozen red roses! But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   25   of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It  26   :
…She took a day off from her busy   27   to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5hours just to get there, and on their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   28   his hero. After the game, she stayed with the little boy to get his hero’s signature until one o’clock in the morning …
It took me long enough to    29   it, but I finally know who the 30    hero is . Mom, I love you!
And suddenly, it was a happy Mother’s Day, after all.
21. A. stress                           B. spend                  C. strengthen        D. spare
22. A. great                           B. poor                   C. faithful            D. pretty
23. A. merely                        B. usually                C. never               D. often
24. A. including                     B. containing           C. possessing        D. pinning
25. A. scratch                        B. description          C. tone                 D. handwriting
26. A. read                            B. recorded              C. memorized       D. wrote
27. A. event                           B. content                C. schedule           D. circumstance
28.A. impressed                     B. presented             C. printed             D. pressed
29. A. see                              B. tell                     C. feed                 D. realize
30. A. actual                          B. true                    C. imaginary         D. visual