题目内容：

One night, when I was eight , my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to____me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done____and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to____your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me____for the rest of the night I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the____decisions adults had to make.

For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d____wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her____and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.

During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large____apartment, I became____how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then____I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on____family and work.____difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you make the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a____attitude.

Back home , I____myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she____to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be____. I learn how to take care of myself and set high but achievable____.

My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the____has really taught me. Sacrifices____in the end. The separation between us has proved to be____for me.

1.

A. attract    B. promote    C. surprise    D. praise

2.

A. little    B. much    C. well    D. wrong

3.

A. leave    B. refuse    C. contact    D. forgive

4.

A. explaining    B. sleeping    C. wondering    D. regretting

5.

A. poor    B. timely    C. final    D. tough

6.

A. eagerly    B. politely    C. nervously    D. curiously

7.

A. patience    B. presence    C. intelligence    D. Influence

8.

A. Comfortable    B. Expensive    C. Empty    D. Modern

9.

A. Interested in    B. aware of    C. doubtful    D. satisfied with

10.

A. when    B. where    C. which    D. that

11.

A. abandoning    B. balancing    C. comparing    D. mixing

12.

A. Depending on    B. supplied with    C. Faced with    D. Insisting on

13.

A. different    B. friendly    C. positive    D. general

14.

A. criticized    B. informed    C. warned    D. reminded

15.

A. managed    B. offered    C. attempted    D. expected

16.

A. grateful    B. energetic    C. independent    D. practical

17.

A. examples    B. limits    C. rules    D. goals

18.

A. question    B. experience    C. history    D. occasion

19.

A. pay off    B. come back    C. run out    D. turn up

20.

A. blessing    B. gathering    C. failure    D. pleasure