题目内容：

About 30 years ago, Marie Roth taught a painting class. When some of her ______ expressed an interest in purchasing her works, she turned painting into a profession.

She’s 70 now, an age when many folks are starting to be ______ on the sofa in front of the TV. But ______ are if there’s a (n)______ barn (谷仓) coming down somewhere in northeastern Illinois, Marie will be there. Wearing leather gloves, Marie will pick through the piles of wood and ______ pieces that, as she describes, “whisper” to her. She’ll remove the ______ boards to her home, where she’ll ______ them and allow them to dry out before ______ the pieces together and gluing them into place. But it’s only when Marie ______ painting them in the eye-catching, beautiful colors loved by every American that it becomes clear what she’s ______. From the broken-down barns, she constructs fine wooden reproductions of the American ______.

“The wood is continually ______ by animals, or sometimes nailed and hammered by humans,” she said. “Recently, I had a piece of wood from the floor of a barn that was ______ by hooves (蹄子). I used it to paint flags from the Civil War era—the marks made me ______ all those brave soldiers.”

Marie comes by her love of barn wood ______ because her father is a carpenter. She painted her first flag on a shipping pallet (托盘) more than 30 years ago. The old pallet, she ______, “______ looked like a flag.”

The self-taught artist paints American flags ______ she is really good at drawing straight lines. Creating art is ______ she has to do. She sometimes ______ that she hopes one day she dies with a paintbrush in her hand.

1.A. students    B. employees    C. customers    D. managers

2.A. bravely    B. modestly    C. gratefully    D. comfortably

3.A. tasks    B. processes    C. chances    D. purposes

4.A. small    B. old    C. ordinary    D. dangerous

5.A. look for    B. wait for    C. work on    D. get through

6.A. borrowed    B. selected    C. limited    D. carved

7.A. wash    B. repair    C. cut    D. store

8.A. fitting    B. founding    C. replacing    D. holding

9.A. continues    B. starts    C. avoids    D. risks

10.A. collecting    B. showing    C. writing    D. creating

11.A. flag    B. picture    C. scene    D. toy

12.A. chewed    B. kicked    C. smashed    D. made

13.A. disturbed    B. spotted    C. printed    D. marked

14.A. think of    B. care for    C. attend to    D. bring back

15.A. frequently    B. naturally    C. quickly    D. secretly

16.A. imagined    B. nodded    C. pretended    D. remembered

17.A. just    B. yet    C. even    D. still

18.A. because    B. or    C. though    D. so

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

20.A. admits    B. declares    C. cries    D. jokes