题目内容：

My father grew up in Oklahoma during the early years of the Great Depression. He was the only living child of a hard­working farmer and a____mother.When Dad completed the eighth grade, my grandfather believed his only son would work on the farm. My grandmother, however, understood the door that education could open even in____economic times. She persuaded grandfather to____Dad to finish high school.

Dad worked hard and completed high school at the age of 16. At last, grandpa was to have his wish. Dad would work on the farm, easing the economic and physical ____grandpa carried. But grandmother again begged grandpa to permit my father to go to college.

After____, grandpa made the most difficult decision of his lifetime. He walked to the chicken coop (鸡笼子), where he did his____. Taking a shovel in his work-worn hands，grandpa dug up a jar that held all the family’s savings. He offered the jar and its precious____to Dad, saying, “Here boy, go and make something of yourself.”

Realizing that his family was sacrificing all their savings by      in his education, Dad became a steward(管家) of those funds. He____his bachelor’s degree and then went on to the University of Oklahoma，where he graduated second in his____school class in 1936. Jobs were hard to come by when Dad graduated, so he opened his own practice and lived in a home with a dirt floor. He worked long hours, but I remember him____the great books he discovered in the course of his education with me.

Our family was changed by the long walk that grandpa took to the chicken coop. Education is more than an investment in our family. It is a treasure. I____my father to college and law school, and all of my children have also____ higher education. We have been transformed by a sacrifice made two generations ago by a loving. If grandfather had not been    convinced by my persistent(固执的) grandmother, he would not have made the____.

1.A. beautiful        B. devoted            C. lazy    D. curious

2.A. tough            B. great           C. peaceful   D. competitive

3.A. permit              B. take            C. ask    D. force

4.A. pains            B. troubles         C. burdens   D. activities

5.A. graduation      B. work       C. reflection      D. permission

6.A. cooking          B. cleaning        C. farming   D. banking

7.A. books             B. bills            C. savings     D. coins

8.A. investing        B. storing      C. treasuring        D. raising

9.A. failed           B. received        C. offered   D. needed

10.A. maths              B. educat  C. economics      D. law

11.A. making       B. writing         C. protecting          D. sharing

12.A. joined    B. followed           C. advised   D. accompanied

13.A. sought          B. insisted            C. favored   D. considered

14.A. toughly          B. kindly        C. rudely       D. fully

15.A. sense       B. use               C. difference          D. effect