Dad loved children. And he always wanted a   21   family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us all to visitors.
Once, Dad   22   presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, “And this is our   23   model, complete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all, we are   24   the 1953 model some time next month.”
But what he   25   most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted   26   that he had seen eleven people in our car, not   27   Mum and Dad.  28   , Dad called out over his shoulder, “You   29   the second baby up from the front here, Mister.”
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure whether he was telling us the   30  . Mum, who was a psychologist, once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the   31  . When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was   32   except that one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been   33  . When he pointed at the child that had been   34   Mum looked at him calmly and said, “That’s not one of ours, dear. He   35    next door.”

A．rich B．lovely C．close D．large

A．surprisingly B．nervously C．generously D．proudly

A．dearest B．smallest C．latest D．youngest

A．ordering B．selling C．expecting D．improving

A．hated B．enjoyed C．cared D．hoped

A．doubtfully B．excitedly C．calmly D．directly

A．counting B．naming C．showing D．reading

A．Immediately B．Carefully C．Angrily D．Easily

A．saw B．missed C．forgot D．left

A．truth B．story C．adventure D．accident

A．lecture B．house C．office D．activity

A．expensive B．regular C．correct D．fine

A．troublesome B．careless C．active D．quiet

A．found B．caught C．punished D．wounded

A．goes to B．belongs to C．works D．plays