第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答案标号为31—40的相应位置。
One evening, I came across one of my son’s papers with a failing grade. I almost started to yell his name   31   I suddenly remembered he was in bed asleep. It was his   32  (nine) year of school and his academic career seemed to be in ruins, so I was angry. But I put the paper aside and turned to the   33   one, at the top of which were written “My dad”. It was a poem about me,   34   included the time I had to leave work to take him to the hospital because he   35  (break) his finger. So careless was I   36   I had forgotten all about that.
He talked about how I wrestled with him in the evenings and   37   good many other things. That paper was suddenly not nearly as important as it had been a few minutes   38  . I don’t know if he planted the poem next to the failing grade to   39  (soft) the blow, but it worked. Instead of a severe lecture, I talked to him about the poem as well as the failed homework, and it began to make sense to me that I could include praise along   40   constructive criticism.