题目内容：

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

In the week before Christmas, one Delta airlines pilot gave a sad Arizona family a gift that no one else could.

Father of three, Jay short died after a ____with lung cancer Dec, 16th. Three days later, his family was attempting to ____to Tennessee for the funeral scheduled for the next morning. But a 90-munite ___at the Phoenix airport ____them only seven minutes to make their connecting flight in Minnesota. “This was our ____chance to say goodbye to my dad, and if we hadn’t _____the flight, we would have missed the ______.” Jay’s daughter said. But when they arrived at the gate, the last plane of the day to Memphis was ____away from the gate.

“My son was ______his arms and pleading with the pilot through the floor-to ceiling windows.” said Marcia, “I was _____ and comforting my girls who were also in tears when the phone rang, ______us that the pilot was returning to the gate to let us _____the plane.” Captain Adam Cohen saw the _____on their faces through the gate’s windows and decided to turn the plane around. Airline experts pointed out Cohen could have _____gotten into trouble for the _____decision, but Delta ____the move instead. “This is ______we’ll take with us, knowing we made a _______.” confirmed Adam.

This story is an _____that we can bring humanity back to society. Show care and it may ______you how far that you go.

1.A. competition    B. symptom     C. connection     D. battle

2.A ride    B run    C fly      D. drive

3.A. wait     B. delay     C. interval     D. sleep

4.A. spared    B. offered    C. brought     D. left

5.A. last     B. slight     C. rare      D. proper

6.A. followed    B. caught    C. booked    D. confirmed

7.A. doctor    B. meeting    C. polite      D. funeral

8.A. keeping    B. bringing    C. pulling     D. taking

9.A. raising    B. waving    C folding     D. crossing

10.A. struggling    B. shouting    C. crying     D. praying

11.A. advising    B. informing    C. warning     D. instructing

12.A. land     B. guide     C. change     D. board

13.A. appreciation   B. satisfaction   C. desperation    D. caution

14.A. easily    B. merely    C. optionally     D. deliberately

15.A. careless    B. unusual    C. selfless     D. unwise

16.A. resisted    B. opposed     C. praised     D. sponsored

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

18.A. difference    B. change    C. promise     D. deal

19.A. activity    B. event     C. incident     D. evidence

20.A. surprise    B. panic     C. disappoint    D. Embarrass