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。

The phone call came one cool winter day. I was     that my father was seriously ill.

It had been long since I’d seen my father. Ever since his   from my mom, my father had lived alone in a small trailer(房车) in California, 500 miles away from me. The real between us seemed so much greater. I was in no hurry to   that, but somehow I heard myself   to the owner of the trailer to be there the next day.

The whole drive down,    flashed through my mind. I remembered my father, the proud Marine. He made sure the first song I was the Marine Hymn(《美国海军陆战队队歌》). He tore off the Christmas   all the decorations the rest of us had    and rehung them so there was    the same space between them. But we didn’t need to   those military orders, as we were not soldiers. I remembered    the battles he had with my mother. I remembered hoping to hear my father say . once, “I love you, Patty,” only to have him  at me, “You can’t do anything right!”

And now here I was standing outside his trailer, trying to     my courage to face him one more time. I knocked on the door, my hand and my whole body   . NO answer. Slowly I opened the door. I took a few    inside and stopped, too shocked to believe my eyes.

My father was sitting on his sofa, looking confused and crying. This wasn’t the    man I hand known growing up. He seemed broken.

A sense of    overtook me, and I knew what I had to do. He would be my father forever. Without       , I went back inside and packed up all of my father’s things. I would take him to my home-our home.

1.A. reminded         B. convinced         C. informed        D. warned

2.A. divorce          B. difference        C. absence         D. result

3. A. difficulty      B. distance          C. challenge       D. pain

4. A. destroy         B. distance          C. increase        D. change

5.A. announce        B. explain           C. promise         D. apologize

6.A. memories        B. doubts            C. signs           D. messages

7.A. performed        B. learned         C. admired         D. composed

8.A. box              B. gift              C. tree            D. cake

9.A. taken up         B. made up           C. rang up         D. put up

10.A. uniquely        B. exactly           C. properly        D. specially

11.A. master          B. obey              C. admit           D. recite

12.A. eventually      B. suddenly          C. clearly         D. regularly

13.A. just           B. always            C. seldom         D. ever

14.A. point           B. look              C. laugh         D. improve

15.A. show            B. gather            C. support         D. improve

16.A. softening       B. relaxing          C. aching          D. shaking

17.A. steps           B. measures          C. turns           D. jumps

18.A. selfish         B. angry             C. mild          D. strange

19.A. sorrow          B. fear              C. pride           D. anger

20.A. effort          B. pity              C. hesitation      D. rest