题目内容：

 

As a young man, Al was a skilled artist．He had a wife and two fine sons．One night, his oldest son developed a serious stomachache．Thinking it was only some   1intestinal （肠内的）disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously．But the boy   2suddenly that night．

    Knowing the death could have been   3if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, Al's emotional health became worse under the huge burden(重负) of his   4.To make matters worse his wife   5him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son．The hurt and pain of the two   6were more than Al could handle, and he   7to alcohol(烈酒)．In time Al became an alcoholic.

8___ the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he   9— his home, his land, his art objects, everything．  10Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room．

    When I heard of Al's death, I thought that Al's life was a complete   11．

    As time went by, I began to reconsider my earlier judgment．I knew Al's now   12son, Ernie．He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known．I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free   13of love between them．I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere．

    I hadn't heard Ernie talk much about his  14__．One day I worked __15_ my courage to ask him．"I'm really _16__ by something," I said．"I know your father was  17the only one to raise you．What on earth did he do that you became such a special person?"

    Ernie sat quietly and _18__ for a few moments．Then he said, "From my earliest _19_ as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, ' I love you, son．' "

    Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to __20_ Al as a failure．He had not left any material possessions behind．But he had been a kind loving father, and he left behind one of the finest, most giving men I have ever known．

1.A．certain          B．common         C．rare           D．basic

2.A．dead             B．passed away     C．starved       D．worsened

3.A．cured            B．prevented                        C．forbidden      D．saved

4.A．disease          B．debt                             C．guilt      D．duty

5.A．left             B．scolded                          C．quarreled D．forgave

6.A．disasters       B．adventures                       C．conflicts      D．situations

7.A．got              B．drank                            C．turned     D．sank

8.A．As               B．Though        C．Because        D．If

9.A．needed           B．shared                           C．benefited      D．owned

10.A．Eventually     B．Gradually                        C．Therefore      D．Meanwhile

11.A．trouble         B．hardship       C．failure       D．waste

12.A．teen            B．adult         C．old            D．adolescent

13.A．win             B．fall           C．space          D．flow

14.A．mother          B．brother        C．father         D．child

15.A．up              B．with           C．on             D．through

16.A．worried        B．puzzled        C．interested     D．attracted

17.A．especially                        B．basically      C．hardly     D．specially

18.A．argued         B．searched       C．analyzed       D．thought

19.A．thoughts       B．ideas          C．minds          D．memories

20.A．treat          B．call           C．judge          D．feel