题目内容：

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D中四个选项，选出最佳选项。

After 22 years of marriage, I have discovered the secret to keep love alive in my relationship with my wife, Peggy. I started dating another woman.

One day Peggy said to me, “Life is too ______, you need to spend time with the people you love. You probably won't believe me, but I know you love her and I think that if the two of you spend more time together, it will make us ________.'

The “other” woman my wife was encouraging me to _______is my mother, a 72-year-old widow who has lived alone since my father _______20 years ago. Right after his death, I ___ 2,500 miles away to California and started my own life and career. When I moved back near my hometown six years ago, I promised myself that I would spend more time with mom. But with the _______of my job and three kids, I never got around to seeing her much _______family get-togethers and holidays.

Mom was _________ and suspicious when I called and suggested the two of us go out to dinner and a movie.

We didn't go anywhere _______, just a neighborhood place where we could talk. _______her eyes now see only large shapes and shadows, I had to read the menu for both of us.

“I used to be the _______ when you were little,” she said.

“Then it is time for you to relax and let me _________the favor,” I said.

We had a nice talk_______dinner, just catching up on each other's lives. We talked for so long that we _______ the movie.

“_______was your date?” my wife asked when I got home that evening.

'Nice...nicer than I thought it would be,' I said.

Mom and I get out for________a couple of times a month. Sometimes we take in a movie, but ________we talk. Through the talks ,I know what it was like for her to work in a factory during the Second World War. I know how she met my father there, and know how they ________the difficult times. I can't get enough of these stories. They are _______ to me, a part of my history.

Peggy was right. Dating another woman has _______my marriage.

1.A. easy        B. difficult      C. short            D. hard

2.A. closer       B. longer         C. happier         D. easier

3.A. date         B. please         C. meet             D. consult

4.A. passé out     B. passed by      C. passed down      D. passed away

5.A. went         B. drove             C. moved           D. removed

6.A. pressure      B. development     C. demand          D. loss

7.A. beyond       B. with             C. during         D. on

8.A. excited     B. annoyed         C. delighted         D. surprised

9. A. ordinary   B. fancy             C. plain            D. common

10.A. Since      B. When            C. if           D. unless

11.A. worker     B. waitress       C. reader          D. owner

12.A. award      B. return             C. turn        D. answer

13.A. over      B. with           C. on             D. across

14.A. forgot     B. refused        C. missed         D. abandoned

15.A. What       B. Who           C. where          D. How

16.A. talk       B. movie         C. walk           D. dinner

17.A. finally    B. merely        C. mostly          D. especially

18.A. went though B. got through  C. looked through  D. saw through

19.A. friendly       B. kind        C. loyal       D. important

20.A. ruined        B. damaged      C. helped       D. affected