题目内容：

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A Person Who Has Influenced My Life

There is always a time in one’s life when a hero comes along. Someone who has inspired you can really help you learn what life is about.

I __1__ it as if it was yesterday. I was fifteen years old that year. It was around eight o’clock one evening when my mother ___2_ a phone call from her brother-in-law, who told us my aunt was in hospital and that the doctor ___3_ them she would need an operation immediately. My family became very __4__ about my aunt’s situation.

While my aunt was in the hospital with special __5__, my cousin Mark, who is mentally disabled, spent time with my family. Mark was seventeen at the time, and had been born with severe mental disorders, which __6__ a wide range of social and physical problems for him throughout everyday life. He never had any true friend _7__ no one could relate to him. I must __8__ that at the beginning I was filled with uncertainty as to how much of a _9__ my cousin would bring on my family. Now looking back it saddens me to see the _10__ I once showed.

Over the two weeks when Mark lived with my family, I probably _11___ more about life and its meanings. Thinking back, I took __12__ in daily life for granted, believing it would always be there. I never even thought about being able to do things like walking, brushing my teeth, or going to the bathroom on my own. Now I see how __13__ I am to be able to do these things independently.

Mark was seventeen, but learned on a nine-year-old _14___. Although his learning ability was slower than most, he could still learn. He explored _15___ to do most of the things everyone else did. _16___ he did pretty well and succeeded in almost everything he tried to do. He __17__ his illness and showed an ambition to love life. To him, having a successful life means achieving goals on his own terms and at his own __18__.

Mark is my hero, for his disability has forever ___19_ my viewpoint on life. It seems like a well-deserved life when you’re fifteen, and it is amazing how in a period of time your point of view can change so ___20_.

1.A.accept B.remember C.imagine D.discover

2.A.made B.missed C.received D.used

3.A.promised B.informed C.showed D.begged

4.A.curious B.sure C.disappointed D.worried

5.A.care B.action C.purpose D.interest

6.A.created B.faced C.found D.influenced

7.A.unless B.although C.until D.because

8.A.believe B.regret C.admit D.decide

9.A.puzzle B.failure C.burden D.conflict

10.A.weakness B.ignorance C.relief D.mercy

11.A.understood B.dreamed C.questioned D.required

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

13.A.powerful B.brave C.lucky D.successful

14.A.variety B.level C.job D.balance

15.A.possibilities B.functions C.achievements D.difficulties

16.A.Typically B.Occasionally C.Accidentally D.Actually

17.A.challenged B.prevented C.treated D.reported

18.A.business B.cost C.pace D.request

19.A.represented B.changed C.formed D.supported

20.A.easily B.normally C.properly D.completely