We have been driving in fog all morning,but the fog is lifting now.The little seaside villages are ____,one by one.“There is my grandmother's house,” I say,____ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage(朝圣) with Lise,my granddaughter,seeking roots for her,retracing(追溯) ____ memory for me.Lise was one of the mobile children,____ from house to house in childhood.She longs for a sense of ___,and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors ____ for 200 years.
We soon ___ by the house and I tell her what it was like here,the memories ____ back,swift as the tide(潮水).
Suddenly,I long to walk again in the ____ where I was once so gloriously a child.It still ____ a member of the family,but has not been lived in for a while.We cannot go into the house,but I can still walk ____ the rooms in memory.Here,my mother ____ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary.I can still see the enthusiastic family ____ into and out of the house.I could never have enough of being ____ them.However,that was long after those childhood days.Lise ____ attentively as I talk and then says,“So this is where I ____;where I belong.”
She has ___ her roots.To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human ____.To be rooted is “to have an origin”.We need ____ origin.Looking backward,we discover what is unique in us;learn the ___ of “I”.We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
A.appearing B.moving C.exposing D.expanding
A.referring B.travelling C.pointing D.coming
A.shared B.short C.fresh D.treasured
A.passed B.raised C.moved D.sent
A.home B.duty C.reality D.relief
A.built B.lived C.remained D.explored
A.catch up B.pull up C.step down D.come down
A.falling B.turning C.rushing D.bringing
A.yard B.village C.room D.house
A.adapts to B.appeals to C.belongs to D.occurs to
A.across B.through C.along D.past
A.lay B.played C.stood D.sat
A.marching B.looking C.breaking D.pouring
A.between B.with C.near D.behind
A.wonders B.listens C.reacts D.agrees
A.began B.grew C.studied D.stayed
A.deepened B.recognized C.accepted D.found
A.heart B.rights C.interest D.behaviors
A.one B.its C.that D.every
A.meaning B.expression C.connection D.background