完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
I was 9 years old when I found out my father was   36  ．It was 1994, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it   37   yesterday: “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food   38   your father, because he has AIDS．Be very careful when you are around him．”
AIDS wasn’t  39   we talked about in my country when I was growing up．From then on, I knew that this would be a family   40  ．My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone．For a while, he could take care of himself．But when I was 12, his condition worsened．My father’s   41   children lived far away, so it   42   to me to look after him．We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and   43   Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t  44  buy food for dinner．I would sit  45   feeling completely  46  , the teacher’s words muffled（压低）as I tried to figure out   47   I was going to manage．
I didn’t share my burden with anyone．I had seen how people reacted to AIDS．Kids __48__ classmates who had parents with the disease．And even adults could be cruel．When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was __49__ weak to feed himself．I had known that he was going to die, __50__ after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days．Sad and __51__, I __52__ a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support．That day, she __53__ me on the phone for hours．I was so lucky to find someone who cared．She saved my life．
I was 15 when my father died．He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me．He didn’t want to call attention to __54__．I __55__．

A．bad B．ill C．good D．well

A．were B．was C．had been D．has been

A．to B．from C．in D．on

A．anything B．everything C．something D．all

A．secret B．problem C．trouble D．matter

A．another B．other C．the other D．others

A．came B．fell C．felt D．turned

A．before B．after C．because D．so

A．still B．even C．yet D．already

A．at home B．in the hospital C．on the chair D．in class

A．lost B．sad C．puzzled D．curious

A．what B．where C．how D．when

A．laughed at B．smiled at C．played a joke about D．made fun of

A．too B．so C．enough D．very

A．and B．but C．however D．yet

A．hopeful B．excited C．disappointed D．hopeless

A．visited B．called C．asked D．advised

A．kept B．told C．spoke D．talked

A．him B．me C．disease D．AIDS

A．do B．did C．am D．will