完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Night after night, as was often the case, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the  36  ,then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started   37   me. But it did. Finally one night, I shouted out as her, “Don’t do that any more – your hands are too   38  ！” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother   39   my day with that familiar   40   of her love.
With the years passing, my thoughts   41  to that night, when I missed my mother’s hands, missed her goodnight   42   on my forehead. Sometimes the incident seemed very   43  , while sometimes far away. But always it was hidden in the back of my   44  . Now Mom is in her seventies, and those hands that I   45   thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my   46  . And now my own children are grown and gone. One Thanksgiving Eve,   47   I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a   48   hand hesitantly run across my face to   49   the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so   50  , touched my brow.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night and my young voice   51  . “Don’t do that any more – your hands are too rough!”   52  , I caught Mom’s hand in hand, saying how   53  I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know   54   I was talking about. She had forgotten, and forgiven long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new   55   for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.

A．place B．way C．order D．shape

A．pleasing B．frightening C．satisfying D．annoying

A．sweet B．tough C．ugly D．rough

A．take up B．give up C．end up D．break up

A．expression B．symbol C．promise D．experience

A．remained B．returned C．occurred D．missed

A．story B．greeting C．kiss D．song

A．close B．serious C．different D．unusual

A．brain B．mind C．spirit D．heart

A．once B．even C．still D．always

A．husband B．children C．family D．father

A．as B．before C．although D．since

A．rough B．reliable C．thin D．familiar

A．tidy B．touch C．brush D．wiped

A．gently B．friendly C．closely D．weakly

A．wept B．whispered C．complained D．struggled

A．On time B．All at once C．Once again D．As usual

A．grateful B．anxious C．sorry D．excited

A．where B．why C．what D．whom

A．memory B．sense C．pleasure D．appreciation