题目内容：

It was a cold day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she had insisted that I come to see something at the ________ of the mountain.

So here I was ________ to make the two-hour journey through ________. By the time I saw how thick it was near the top, I’d gone too far to turn back.

“I’ll stay for lunch, but I’m heading back down as soon as the fog lifts,” 
I ________ when I arrived.

“But I need you to drive me to the garage to pick up my car,” Carolyn said. “Could we at least do that?”

“How ________?” I asked.

“About three minutes,” she said. “I’ll drive—I’m used to it.”

After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her ________. “I thought you said three minutes.”

She smiled. “This is a different route.”

Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and ________ out. We walked along a path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green pines ________over us. Gradually, the peace and silence of the place began to ________ my mind.

When we stopped, I took a deep breath in _______.

From the top of the mountain were rivers of flowers in bloom. A mix of _____from white to lemon to red — unfolded like a carpet before us. At the center was a waterfall of purple flowers and here and there were coral-colored ones. And western bluebirds flew ________ the heads of the flowers happily.

A series of ________ came to my mind. Who created such beauty? How? When?

As we approached home, we saw a sign that read: “I ________ Answers to Your Questions.”

The first answer was: “One Woman—Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” The second was: “One at a Time.” The third: “________ in 1958.”

As we drove home, I was so ________ by what we had seen, I could hardly speak. “She changed the world,” I ________ said, “one flower at a time. She took her first step almost 60 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she kept at it.”

“Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a(n) ________ like her and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have ________?”

Carolyn looked at me, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said. “ ________ yet, start today.”

1.A. back    B. bottom    C. top    D. corner

2.A. unwilling    B. unable    C. unlucky    D. unfit

3.A. rain    B. snow    C. storm    D. fog

4.A. announced    B. criticized    C. suggested    D. complained

5.A. much    B. many    C. fast    D. far

6.A. excitedly    B. calmly    C. nervously    D. anxiously

7.A. checked    B. looked    C. got    D. dropped

8.A. floated    B. streamed    C. towered    D. skipped

9.A. empty    B. fill    C. disturb    D. control

10.A. embarrassment    B. amazement    C. disappointment    D. amusement

11.A. materials    B. patterns    C. colors    D. shapes

12.A. over    B. through    C. within    D. along

13.A. predictions    B. decisions    C. imaginations    D. questions

14.A. Understand    B. Know    C. Doubt    D. Forget

15.A. Started    B. Continued    C. Finished    D. Quitted

16.A. troubled    B. moved    C. encouraged    D. confused

17.A. frankly    B. seriously    C. frequently    D. finally

18.A. promise    B. story    C. idea    D. challenge

19.A. gained    B. required    C. regretted    D. remembered

20.A. more    B. better    C. harder    D. later