题目内容：

阅读短文、掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。（15分）

Everybody has his own hero in mind and is always trying to copy his behaviors in life. As for me, my ______ is just that man. My grandfather had a small farm. He also worked in a ______.

One autumn, most of the farmers in the village were ______, so he promised to help his neighbor harvest（收割）the corn as he often did. ______, after harvesting his own corn, Grandpa’s little corn machine broke. What was ______, the factory where Grandpa worked made the workers have extra work. He had to ______ the farm early and didn’t get back until very late. It now seemed ______ to help out his neighbor because he really had no free time.

One night, Grandpa ______ that he wouldn’t let his neighbor’s harvest rot（腐烂）in the field. Without a ______, he’d harvest it by hand.

“I don’t think you’d have time to do it,” said my grandma. “______, it would be too dark to do anything at night.”

“I know of one night that I could do it!” he ______. “There’s still one more full moon in October. If the ______ is clear, I think I can do it.”

A few days later, after a long shift（轮班）at the factory, my grandpa went to the ______. The weather was cold but clear. He cut all the corn through the night to ______ his word.

Sometimes, when I want to put off responsibilities, I’d see my grandfather ______ corn in the light of the harvest moon. Behind him, row after row of corn stocks（玉米秸秆）stand at attention in respect for a man who keeps his word.

1.A. father    B. mother    C. grandfather    D. grandmother

2.A. school    B. factory    C. shop    D. cinema

3.A. happy    B. free    C. busy    D. nervous

4.A. Anyway    B. However    C. Luckily    D. Usually

5.A. worse    B. better    C. earlier    D. later

6.A. sell    B. leave    C. clean    D. return

7.A. relaxing    B. impossible    C. interesting    D. dangerous

8.A. thought    B. learned    C. wondered    D. guessed

9.A. friend    B. hand    C. machine    D. farmer

10.A. Whenever    B. Besides    C. Although    D. Because

11.A. lived    B. refused    C. explained    D. nodded

12.A. weather    B. air    C. water    D. day

13.A. factory    B. field    C. river    D. house

14.A. keep    B. talk    C. eat    D. say

15.A. eating    B. growing    C. pulling    D. cutting