题目内容：

Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to offend me or verbally ______ me, I almost never lost it ______; of course I felt hurt, but I didn’t show it.

Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell ______ in love with him, a proud ______ who loudly discusses things even with himself when he’s not happy. Things, however, got worse for me when we started ______ on things. He seemed really angry and loud, while I seemed detached and polite. Truth is that I was ______ too, but I was used to not showing it on the outside. Fight after fight, he always acted as if nothing had happened a few minutes after each quarrel, while my moments of ______ discontent started to ______ more and more in time until they became hours, sometimes even days.

I felt this had to change and the conversation went ______ like this:

Me: “Either you change your ______ when we fight or I will start avoiding any discussion, otherwise this will ______ our relationship.”

Him: “Did you ______ the Mpemba Effect? If you put two ______ containers filled with the same amount of the same water into the ______ except that one has boiling water in it while the other one has water at ambient (周围的) ______, the boiling water will ______ faster than the ambient water. Baby, you have got to boil first, to cool down faster. That’s why the Italians live longer than Canadians.”

The connection he suggested is to be ______, but I have learned a fact I didn’t know, one that has ______ me to understand that if I’m angry about something or someone, for that anger to disappear, it has to be towards the ______ or otherwise it is like hiding the dust under the ______: your house might look clean, but it is not.

1.A. cheat    B. attack    C. defend    D. impress

2.A. in return    B. in time    C. in place    D. in public

3.A. steadily    B. reasonably    C. hopelessly    D. blindly

4.A. Italian    B. American    C. Canadian    D. Chinese

5.A. operating    B. disagreeing    C. living    D. working

6.A. struggling    B. controlling    C. boiling    D. accumulating

7.A. inner    B. abrupt    C. extra    D. distinct

8.A. disappear    B. expand    C. recover    D. withdraw

9.A. up and down    B. by and by    C. sooner or later    D. more or less

10.A. vision    B. viewpoint    C. attention    D. attitude

11.A. affect    B. compensate    C. mend    D. strike

12.A. hear about    B. learn from    C. worry about    D. hear from

13.A. mobile    B. similar    C. exact    D. relevant

14.A. basin    B. oven    C. freezer    D. pond

15.A. heat    B. level    C. environment    D. temperature

16.A. explode    B. burst    C. resist    D. freeze

17.A. suspected    B. indicated    C. proven    D. created

18.A. warned    B. inspired    C. recommended    D. forbade

19.A. outside    B. inside    C. public    D. rich

20.A. dustpan    B. carpet    C. roof    D. broom