题目内容：

完形填空

先通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

One evening last summer, when I asked my 14- year- old son, Ray，for help with dinner, his response(回答)shocked me. "What's a colander(漏勺)?" he asked. I could only blame _________ . In the family, nobody else went into the kitchen except me.  But that night, as I _________ to him that a colander is the thing with holes in it，I wondered what else I hadn't _________ Ray for.

As parents，while we focus on our sons' confidence and character，we perhaps don't always consider that we are _________ raising someone's future roommates，boyfriends，husbands，or fathers. _________  I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was _________  to find that he didn't say no. For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine.

I knew that he would rather have been playing basketball with friends than _________  to mend socks with his mother，but in fact he was learning, and more than just housekeeping. "I appreciate(感激)what you do _________ a mom," he told me one day. Ray now realizes there's  _________ masculine(男子气概的)about being helpless.

Now，not only can he make his own dinner, but also he can make a big meal for his family. That's _________ I call a man. I'm glad that I prepared so great a present for my future daughter in-law.

1.A. themselves     B. ourselves       C. myself          D. himself

2.A. explained      B. continued       C. thought         D. advised

3.A. planned       B. prepared        C. produced        D. punished

4.A. even            B. also           C. still           D. either

5.A. But             B. And             C. Because          D. So

6.A. cheerful       B. nervous        C. patient         D. serious

7.A. learning       B. checking       C. asking           D. affording

8.A. by            B. for            C. as              D. with

9.A. something       B. anything       C. everything     D. nothing

10.A. what           B. how           C. why            D. who