题目内容：

阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Standing in the driveway, I watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their ________.

“They live too far away from me,” I said to myself. “When did they ________ and become parents of small children? ________ that be me?”

I slipped back inside the house and just walked through the rooms for no reason ________. I was just missing them already and looking for ________ of their having been here. There were pillows on the floor and few stuffed (填充) animals ________ around where the children had been playing.

I walked into the ________ and there on the back of the sink was a bottle brush that had been left behind. “Ah, even Tessa left something behind,” I ________. Well, I suppose she had help ________ she was just four months old.

As I walked around the house, I picked up a few more ________ on the floor—Tegan’s tooth, a pie pan, and the inside of a turkey fryer.

Hmmm, things left behind ... I thought to myself. It seems there is one thing left behind on very ________. Memories are always left behind, I reasoned, and what a(n) ________ thing good memories are to us. I thought how each item left behind ________ me of the person it belonged to and the story ________ it.

Memories happen even if we aren’t ________ of it. The stressful and difficult moments often become memories that we ________ later with laughter and joy. The memories of past hurts, bitterness, and anger, ________, should be left behind ________. These are the things that we should never ________ until the next time they come, mail back, or bring with us on ________ next visit.

As Elizabeth Stone said, “To have a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

1.A. smilesB. vehiclesC. painsD. bicycles

2.A. drop outB. break awayC. set offD. grow up

3.A. Shouldn’tB. Wouldn’tC. Can’tD. Needn’t

4.A. with joyB. with angerC. in particularD. in return

5.A. signalsB. atmosphereC. signsD. information

6.A. jumpingB. lyingC. movingD. looking

7.A. houseB. distanceC. kitchenD. driveway

8.A. announcedB. explainedC. complainedD. replied

9.A. whenB. unlessC. untilD. since

10.A. itemsB. toysC. memoriesD. treasures

11.A. tableB. courseC. occasionD. corner

12.A. funnyB. privateC. ordinaryD. precious

13.A. remindedB. informedC. warnedD. convinced

14.A. promotingB. surroundingC. acknowledgingD. exposing

15.A. proudB. ashamedC. afraidD. aware

16.A. attach importance toB. throw doubt on

C. get hold ofD. look back upon

17.A. besidesB. thereforeC. otherwiseD. however

18.A. partlyB. sometimesC. foreverD. unwillingly

19.A. presentB. keepC. overlookD. experience

20.A. yourB. theirC. itsD. our