题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A Father's Love

Daddy just didn’t know how to show love. It was Mom who  ________ the family together. He just went to work every day and came home; she’d have a list of things we’d done wrong and he’d scold us about them.

Once when I stole a candy bar, he ________  me take it back and tell the man I stole it and that I’d pay for it. But it was Mom who ________ I was just a kid.

I broke my leg once on the playground and it was Mom who held me in her arms all the way to the ________ . Dad pulled the car ________ up to the door of the emergency room and when they asked him to move it saying the space was________ for emergency vehicles, He shouted, “What do you think this is? A tour bus?”

At my birthday parties, Dad always seemed sort of ________ . He just ________ himself in blowing up balloons, setting up tables, and running errands(跑腿）. It was Mom who carried the cake with the candles on it for me to blow out.

When I look through picture albums, people always ask, “What does your Dad look like?” “Who knows? He was always running around with the camera taking everyone else’s picture. I   ________ have a thousand pictures of Mom and me smiling together.”

I remember when Mom told him to teach me how to ride a bicycle. I told him not to________,  but he said it was time. ________ I fell and Mom ran to pick me up, but he ________ her off. I was so ________   that I shouted at him, got right back on the bike and rode it myself. He didn’t even feel embarrassed and just ________  .

When I went to college, Mom did all the writing. He just sent checks and a little note about how ________ his lawn(草坪） looked  ________ I wasn’t playing football on it.

Whenever I ________ home, he acted like he wanted to talk, ________ he always said, “I’ ll get your mother.”When I got married, it was Mom who cried. He just blew his nose ________ and left the room. All my life he said, “Where are you going? What time are you coming home? No, you cannot go.”

Daddy just didn’t know how to show love, unless…

Is it possible he showed it and didn’t ________ it ?

1.A. put          B. supported     C. held              D. gathered

2.A. helped      B. punished       C. awarded           D. made

3.A. understood  B. knew          C. responded         D. admitted

4.A. home         B. school        C. hospital         D. car

5.A. right       B. along          C. simply            D. afterwards

6.A. preserved   B. reserved       C. replaced         D. attached

7.A. out of date  B. out of breath  C. out of place     D. out of mind

8.A. devoted     B. admired        C. performed        D. drowned

9.A. will         B. can            C. may              D. must

10.A. break it up B. set it off    C. let it go         D. take it apart

11.A. At the end  B. As a result  C. As a matter of fact D. As you know

 

12.A. wiped       B. reminded      C. waved              D. prevented

13.A. familiar  B. sensitive     C. fierce             D. mad

14.A. arose      B. relaxed       C. apologized        D. smiled

15.A. attractive  B. secure        C. original           D. valuable

16.A. as though  B. now that      C. even though        D. so that

17.A. missed     B. belonged       C. removed           D. called

18.A. then       B. but           C. afterwards        D. and

19.A. secretly   B. loudly         C. quietly           D. hopelessly

20.A. recognize B. deserve       C. remind            D. express