题目内容：

As this year comes to a close, I’m full of love and gratefulness in more ways than I can put into words. It’s not a list inside my ____ or written down on paper anywhere, but rather a ____ I have been carrying within me throughout the past few weeks. Just yesterday, I was ____ to my mom that I felt as if I had grown so much in the course of the year.

This year has been a strange year for me. It ____ with much hope and expectation, ____ there were a lot of open wounds that needed to be healed (治愈) before that could happen, even if I didn’t realize it at the time. Still, I was in a ____ place from the beginning and growth was inevitable (不可避免的) as I held a(n) ____ mind and a willingness to change.

It was really a year of ____ and personal development. I have ____ to forgive others, as well as myself, and realized that it’s often my own expectations that lead to  ___. In the past few months I’ve been making great ____ to remove unrealistic expectations from my life. Though, I’ll admit it isn’t always ____. Still, I can say in confidence that I’m ____ this year full of love and gratefulness for all that I have in my ____.

The progress and growth I’ve made this year is just the ____ of the life I plan on leading in the next year and beyond. I spent so much time on ____, more than I have in years, and I feel that my efforts have ____ in so many ways. I’m ____ at a place where I’m excited to live life each day, and I’ve come to realize that ____ I’m not entirely living the life of my dreams at the moment, I’m working hard each day at making that life a ____.

1.A. head    B. pocket    C. drawer    D. hand

2.A. talking    B. feeling    C. warning    D. painting

3.A. saying    B. complaining    C. promising    D. crying

4.A. turned out    B. held out    C. started out    D. went out

5.A. or    B. for    C. but    D. and

6.A. wrong    B. bright    C. high    D. good

7.A. open    B. young    C. normal    D. lively

8.A. relief    B. growth    C. panic    D. pleasure

9.A. forgotten    B. refused    C. learned    D. offered

10.A. improvement    B. development    C. encouragement    D. disappointment

11.A. advances    B. success    C. progress    D. efforts

12.A. enough    B. certain    C. easy    D. common

13.A. ending    B. missing    C. sparing    D. balancing

14.A. eyes    B. life    C. mind    D. dreams

15.A. beginning    B. lightning    C. building    D. thinking

16.A. herself    B. it    C. itself    D. myself

17.A. put off    B. kept off    C. paid off    D. given off

18.A. quickly    B. finally    C. simply    D. quietly

19.A. because    B. now that    C. even if    D. while

20.A. reality    B. rule    C. signal    D. doubt