题目内容：

When I was a small boy my family was very poor. My father always used his savings to ____ my mother to visit her parents who lived far away. There was just my younger brother and myself in the house. One evening Dad came home from ____ and there was no food in the house, not ____ a piece of bread. Although we were ____, my brother and I went to bed without eating anything.

My father had no money, but l knew from the ____ on his face that he could not let us have an empty stomach. He ____ the house and about two hours later returned and quickly ____ us up. He had in his hand two small potato pies, which he gave us to eat. I don’t know where he got the ____ but somehow he ____ to get us something to eat.

My father had not eaten and had worked all day ____ he sat there with great satisfaction watching us eat. This has ____ stayed in my mind and left more of an impression than any amount of ____ he may ever have given me.

At that moment, l felt happy knowing that he was there and would not let us ____.

I guess the ____ I am trying to make is that in difficult times it is ____ not to show weakness but strength and character. If a ____ is the cement（粘合剂）that holds a family together, then the father is ____ that strengthens that cement.

It is his values and ____ and memories that have carried me forward and helped me to ____ my own problems in life. In my own ____ I have learned that it is the valuable time you spend with your children and the values you give to them that will remain with them always.

1.A. force    B. remind    C. send    D. teach

2.A. hospital    B. work    C. school    D. shop

3.A. quite    B. just    C. only    D. even

4.A. nervous    B. hungry    C. sleepy    D. busy

5.A. worry    B. pleasure    C. disappointment    D. surprise

6.A. cleaned    B. observed    C. left    D. searched

7.A. brought    B. put    C. called    D. woke

8.A. chance    B. food    C. support    D. recipe

9.A. managed    B. decided    C. agreed    D. waited

10.A. so    B. or    C. but    D. and

11.A. normally    B. always    C. shortly    D. softly

12.A. cost    B. time    C. salary    D. money

13.A. suffer    B. know    C. leave    D. cry

14.A. decision    B. promise    C. point    D. apology

15.A. strange    B. important    C. difficult    D. common

16.A. father    B. brother    C. sister    D. mother

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

18.A. words    B. records    C. actions    D. failures

19.A. work out    B. carry out    C. run into    D. look into

20.A. opinion    B. home    C. order    D. turn