题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和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。

Hard as you try to break with family tradition, your heart remains at home on the holidays.

---Tayari Jones

Everybody in my family always get excited about the Christmas. As the middle, artist child, I was going to do my own thing, make some new       . From a book, I drew       --- I would spend the holiday at an artist colony!

No one took the news very well. From the way my mother got angry      me, you would think that I was divorcing the family.       , I held my ground and made plans for my winter adventure in New Hampshire. About 30 artists were there, and it was as well artsy as I had       . It felt like my life had become a strange independent film.

By Christmas Eve, I had been at the colony more than a week. The novelty (新奇感) was      away. This was the holiday I’d always dreamed of. Not a Christmas sweater anywhere in       . People here didn’t even say “Christmas,” they said “holiday.” Entire relaxation. Then why was I so       ?

Finally, I       home. My dad answered, but I could      hear him for there was too much good-time noise in the background. He turned       the volume on the Stevie Wonder holiday album and      me that my mother was out shopping with my brothers. Now it was my turn to       . They were having a fine Christmas without me.

Despite a heavy snowstorm, a large package       near my door at the artist colony on Christmas morning. Tayari Jones was written in my mother’s beautiful      . I grasped at that parcel(包裹) like I was five years old. Inside was a beautiful delicious cake, my       . “Merry Christmas”, read the simple card      . “We love you very much.”

As I sliced the cake, everyone       around. Mother had sent a homemade gift. It was a minor Christmas miracle (奇迹) that one cake managed to feed so       . We ate it from paper towels with our bare hands, satisfying a     we didn’t know we had.

1.A. comments       B. adjustments       C. traditions     D. possibilities

2.A. significance   B. inspiration      C. enthusiasm      D. discovery

3.A. on             B. about            C. over            D. with

4.A. But            B. Therefore         C. Still           D. Moreover

5.A. imagined       B. designed          C. informed        D. interviewed

6.A. fading        B. taking           C. putting         D. giving

7.A. error         B. danger          C. return          D. sight

8.A. happy          B. excited           C. sad             D. fortunate

9.A. returned      B. called            C. escaped         D. knocked

10.A. clearly      B. sincerely        C. barely          D. extremely

11.A. down          B. up               C. in             D. over

12.A. spoke        B. said              C. told           D. talked

13.A. cry          B. laugh             C. disappoint     D. upset

14.A. added up     B. built up         C. dug up         D. showed up

15.A. handwriting   B. words           C. name            D. letters

16.A. impact       B. favorite         C. ingredient      D. option

17.A. outside       B. upside            C. inside          D. downside

18.A. ran          B. gathered          C. scared          D. flew

19.A. many          B. lot               C. much            D. few

20.A. liberty       B. hunger            C. interest       D. dilemma