题目内容：

I love old people. Two of my best Mends are eighty-nine. I never understood it,______ for some reason I’ve always been ______ to older people much more than children. I have such fond ______ of sitting with my grandfather before he died. We used to ______ him once a week, talk to each other for an hour or so, and then I leave. At the ______ of a very good friend, I started going to see him ______ my own. I value that I was able to hear his stories and ______ mine. When I announced that I made a decision against our custom and my family was giving me a ______ time, the words of my grandfather helped to ______ me through. He said, “I don’t know why you’re doing this, but I ______ you.” That’s really all I needed to hear.

Later on, I ______ in a hospital and in a number of retirement communities. I have seen it all. When you get old, you get real. Everything is ______ — roles, the health of the body, memory, the people you love, your home. Whatever we want to hold tightly, whatever we think we are …it all ______ goes. What are we left with? This is the basic question that old age invites us to ______.

Once a famous poet said, “Go gently into that good night.” I say it depends on ______ or not you want to suffer. You can be angry at the dying of the light, but nature is going to take its ______. Can you stop a river from flowing? Can you hold back a baby when it is ready to be born? The more we allow ourselves to ______ into the changes that are happening the ______ the journey will be.

These are ______ that anyone, at any age, can benefit from. I so ______ them now, and only wish I had known them earlier.

1.A. but    B. or    C. thus    D. and

2.A. referred    B. stuck    C. opposed    D. drawn

3.A. gestures    B. memories    C. sayings    D. tastes

4.A. ask    B. help    C. phone    D. visit

5.A. suggestion    B. order    C. description    D. cost

6.A. on    B. by    C. of    D. in

7.A. write    B. publish    C. share    D. explain

8.A. hard    B. sincere    C. happy    D. simple

9.A. push    B. pull    C. see    D. break

10.A. remind    B. defend    C. support    D. demand

11.A. played    B. worked    C. studied    D. graduated

12.A. taken out    B. taken away    C. taken on    D. taken in

13.A. personally    B. fluently    C. honestly    D. finally

14.A. consider    B. suggest    C. suppose    D. determine

15.A. whether    B. what    C. how    D. that

16.A. seat    B. chance    C. place    D. course

17.A. relax    B. worry    C. run    D. look

18.A. farther    B. easier    C. stricter    D. fairer

19.A. lessons    B. exercises    C. judgments    D. applications

20.A. ignore    B. appreciate    C. remember    D. affect