题目内容：

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One cool morning I was asked to go to several garage sales together with my mother. We finally ______ at a pleasant house in the woods. The elderly ______told me that he and his wife were retired teachers. As we were searching, I heard the gentleman’s wife say her ______ to someone, and I immediately ______ who she was. She looked at me and said, “You’re Susan Miller.” I looked at her ______ , for it had been nearly thirty years ______I had been in her class.

My mother immediately said sorry to her for any bad ______that I might have done. She apologized again after learning that I wasn’t the sweet little child. Mum thought that if this woman______ me after so many years, I must have done something ______. My teacher looked at my mother and ______ said, “Oh, no, she was very good.”

My teacher______ that during the last week of school, I brought her a plant from my mother’s garden. It was a lamb’s ear. She took us to her garden ______ she planted the lamb’s ear. Over the years, it spread. As I looked down her driveway with lamb’s ear ______ on both sides, she said, “Every day when I leave my house and drive up the driveway, I think of you. And when I come home, they______ me and I think of you.” Tears ______ my eyes. There at her home was a piece of my life that she had raised.

At that moment, she taught me far more about ______ than I could imagine. We give away pieces of ourselves every day______thought. We seldom imagine the effects that we have on others’ lives. That piece may grow and spread, becoming a ______ part of a life. In the end it is not the big things that matter, ______ the small things that make all the ______ in the world.

1.A. startedB. stoppedC. searchedD. left

2.A. workerB. buyerC. ownerD. player

3.A nameB. addressC. priceD. age

4.A. learnedB. forgotC. realizedD. guessed

5.A. surprisinglyB. worriedlyC. boringlyD. tiredly

6.A. whileB. beforeC. afterD. since

7.A. measuresB. deedsC. issuesD. events

8.A. rememberedB. sawC. consideredD. found

9.A. friendlyB. nobleC. terribleD. politely

10.A. loudlyB. silentlyC. angrilyD. softly

11.A. explainedB. reportedC. warnedD. ignored

12.A. whenB. whichC. thatD. where

13.A. is growingB. grewC. growingD. is grown

14.A. acceptB. sendC. helpD. greet

15.A. gave upB. came intoC. turned intoD. took away

16.A. plantsB. gardenC. lifeD. garage

17.A withoutB. byC. withD. through

18.A. usualB. necessaryC. largeD. whole

19.A. butB. despiteC. beyondD. yet

20.A. effortB. choiceC. decisionD. difference