题目内容：

Grandma celebrated grandpa’s birthday just days before he passed away. Although his __________ was very difficult for her, I think it taught grandma that good health was not to be taken __________, and she made up her mind to live the rest of her own life as ______ and as long as she could. One day, when she ________ to attend dancing lessons, we rolled our eyes in __________ and helplessly wished she would just stay home and __________ cookies as normal grandmothers did. Many years filled with countless dance lessons passed ________ we learned to appreciate the wonder of having a __________ grandma.

I suppose grandma’s primary motivation for dancing was social. She had been a __________ girl, always very tall and heavy, and had married into grandpa’s quiet lifestyle before __________ any elegance or confidence in her personal appearance. Dancing, __________, filler her life with flash lights, wonderful parties, beautiful dresses, and the challenge of learning. __________ the weekly dance lessons did not change her ample, two-hundred-pound figure, grandma __________ everyone with energetic performances on the dance floor, __________ soon gave her as much elegance and confidence as any Miss American competitor.

Having taken dance lessons for years, my grandma learned various dances _________ and was soon participating in dancing _________ all over the Northwest. When I was fourteen, grandma __________ invited me to watch her compete in one of these matches. My attitude was __________ unenthusiastic at that point, but to make her happy, my mother and I attended the match. As if to prove me wrong, grandma made a wonderful showing in every __________ she entered. I thought she was truly the queen of the ball during the dance, and my thoughts were shared by the _________ a short time later when she was awarded a gold cup for her outstanding performance.

1.A. suffering    B. birthday    C. health    D. death

2.A. for sure    B. for fun    C. for granted    D. seriously

3.A. fully    B. peacefully    C. pitifully    D. carefully

4.A. pretended    B. announced    C. refused    D. managed

5.A. agreement    B. excitement    C. embarrassment    D. anger

6.A. sell    B. bake    C. buy    D. keep

7.A. until    B. since    C. unless    D. before

8.A. loving    B. dancing    C. caring    D. selfless

9.A. humorous    B. shy    C. determined    D. mean

10.A. managing    B. losing    C. developing    D. falling

11.A. at most    B. to be honest    C. in a word    D. on the other hand

12.A. Once    B. Since    C. Because    D. Although

13.A. persuaded    B. satisfied    C. surprised    D. confused

14.A. what    B. that    C. which    D. it

15.A. easily    B. busily    C. hard    D. awkwardly

16.A. performances    B. trainings    C. practice    D. matches

17.A. unwillingly    B. increasingly    C. proudly    D. surprisingly

18.A. hardly    B. even    C. still    D. fairly

19.A. incident    B. point    C. room    D. event

20.A. judges    B. competitors    C. dancers    D. audiences