完形填空。      It happened when I was a little girl. I can remember neither the beginning nor the end, but whenever I  
1  it, tears flow down my face.
     When I was young, my family led a(n)   2    life in the country. As you can imagine, many country roads
are difficult to walk on. One   3 we were visiting some relatives and the   4  was very bad. It began to   5 on
our way back home. Dad carried me on his   6 . Mom gave her overcoat to my   7  . We walked together
through the rain for more than an hour.
     I was fat at that time and Dad must be   8  to hold me for such a long time. He almost     9   down many
times. In hope of   10   my father"s burden, I tried to carry myself,  11   I achieved nothing since I was just a
little kid.
     When we arrived home, the inside of our house was   12 with rain water. The rain had come   13 our
leaky (有裂缝的) roof and water was everywhere. Mom put bowls all around the house to try to   14 the
rain. Then she put me and my elder brother to  15 , carefully placing us on the remaining  16   place. I fell
asleep soon. When I opened my eyes, I found Dad and Mom were   17 in chairs, both having caught bad
colds.
This is my very earliest   18 . Though the evening has long passed, and now we live a happy life, I won"t
forget the rain we   19 together. The rain, that evening, and especially my parents"   20 , will stay in my mind
forever.

(     )1. A. deal with   (     )2. A. hard         (     )3. A. morning     (     )4. A. food         (     )5. A. blow         (     )6. A. arm         (     )7. A. brother     (     )8. A. worried     (     )9. A. fell         (     )10. A. taking     (     )11. A. so         (     )12. A. buried     (     )13. A. under       (     )14. A. catch       (     )15. A. ground     (     )16. A. dry         (     )17. A. quarreling (     )18. A. visit       (     )19. A. got stuck   (     )20. A. wishes

B. think of   B. unhappy     B. noon       B. drink       B. thunder     B. back       B. sister     B. tired       B. looked     B. moving     B. and         B. covered     B. over       B. welcome     B. floor       B. clean       B. sleeping   B. excitement B. got away   B. words

C. lead to       C. interesting   C. afternoon     C. traffic       C. rain           C. bike           C. friend         C. angry         C. turned         C. lifting       C. but           C. mixed         C. in             C. greet         C. bed           C. beautiful     C. laughing       C. opportunity   C. went through   C. love

D. suffer from   D. rich           D. evening       D. weather       D. snow           D. car           D. relative       D. lazy           D. ran           D. reducing       D. instead       D. crowded       D. through       D. expect         D. ceiling       D. warm           D. eating         D. memory         D. went by       D. education