题目内容：

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。

In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood a big grandfather’s clock. The table was always ________ with wonderful food and ________ as the main part. And always that grandfather’s clock stood like a trusted old family ________, sharing our happiness.

As I was a child, the old clock ________ me. I watched and listened to it during meals. I________how at different times of the day, that clock would strike with a wonderful voice，and even more wonderful to me was what my grandfather did each day. He never let that clock wind down and ________. He even showed us how to use the key to wind(上发条) the clock. Year after year, the clock became a part of my ________, a part of my heart. The clock stayed with my grandfather until he passed away.

Several days after my grandfather died, I entered the dining room, with tears flowing________. My grandmother gave me the clock and the key. I opened the clock door with my ________ hand. Then slowly, gently, I entered the key and wound the clock. It began with tick – tock, tick – tock ,________ of the clock was breathed into the dining room, into house and into my ________. In the movement of the hands of the clock, my grandfather ________ again.

1.A. cooked    B. spread    C. cleared    D. left

2.A. stress    B. surprise    C. worry    D. love

3.A. friend    B. guard    C. doctor    D. lawyer

4.A. excited    B. encouraged    C. interested    D. comforted

5.A. questioned    B. remembered    C. doubted    D. wondered

6.A. break    B. fall    C. move    D. stop

7.A. studies    B. opinions    C. memories    D. brains

8.A. politely    B. gently    C. difficultly    D. freely

9.A. shaking    B. calming    C. cheering    D. feeling

10.A. life    B. style    C. information    D. color

11.A. study    B. bedroom    C. heart    D. mind

12.A. died    B. lived    C. smiled    D. sang