完形填空。      This economy has really got a lot of people moving and not always by a choice they wanted to make. My wife and I now find ourselves among those unfortunates feeling that    1 .
     At the end of last year, our customers just    2  .  We had to make the painful decision to     3  our
office and put our house up for    4  . We haven"t lived in it for two years yet and expected it would be
the    5    one for a long time. How    6    this world economic mess is changing our lives!
     As I get older, I find moving less adventurous and more    7  . This time, we"re in the process of moving without knowing where we"ll    8    next. Job searching has been thrown into the quagmire (困境) of an
unsettled life. Both my wife and I had been feeling pretty    9    from all this. I"ve been challenged to find
the positive in all this down that"s    10    us.
     But then it happened while I watched my wife    11    things up. She"s an absolute whiz (能手) when it
comes to packing. I took delight in watching her   12    just the right boxes for   13    in front of her and
filling in the   14    with pillows and towels. I began feeling something like a wind lift me up and sail me
through my own    15  of the packing and loading.
     Some friends will be helping us with the    16  . I"ve told them that they"re not    17    friends but gaining
some new vacation spots.
     I have    18    that we"ll get through this transition finally. We all will always have work to do, by choice or    19  , and we can also consciously make the effort to create a sense of   20   in a new place. (     )1. A. pressure  
(     )2. A. stayed up  
(     )3. A. open      
(     )4. A. help      
(     )5. A. last      
(     )6. A. little    
(     )7. A. dangerous  
(     )8. A. return    
(     )9. A. relaxed    
(     )10. A. improving
(     )11. A. packing  
(     )12. A. bring u p
(     )13. A. others    
(     )14. A. cars      
(     )15. A. boat      
(     )16. A. settling  
(     )17. A. valuing  
(     )18. A. idea      
(     )19. A. otherwise B. pleasure  
B. turned up  
B. close      
B. comparison
B. next      
B. quickly    
B. common    
B. arrive    
B. excited    
B. encouraging
B. washing    
B. keep up    
B. nothing    
B. gaps      
B. share      
B. cooking    
B. losing    
B. faith      
B. indeed     C. heat        
C. dried up    
C. visit      
C. decoration  
C. only        
C. frequently  
C. stressful  
C. study      
C. ashamed    
C. beating    
C. pulling    
C. size up    
C. another    
C. tanks      
C. wish        
C. cleaning    
C. inviting    
C. feeling    
C. worse       D. chance    
D. came up    
D. paint      
D. sale      
D. special    
D. well      
D. interesting
D. prepare    
D. depressed  
D. killing    
D. dividing  
D. set up    
D. everything
D holes      
D. promise    
D. moving    
D. making    
D. opinion    
D. rather