完形填空。      My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which
caused my father to be extremely tightfisted (吝啬) with money.
     When we children became    1   that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n)
  2   to ask our father for some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, "If you"re old enough
to ask, you"re old enough to    3   ." And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighborhood.
     He didn"t    4   his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when    5   of us had a car, so
we had to ride a    6   whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home. Dad
never met us,    7   in bad weather. If someone    8   (and my brothers did a lot), he"d say in his    9 
 father-voice, "That"s what your legs are    10   !"
     One spring evening I was on the bus home from    11   . Tests and long hours in labs had    12   me
exhausted. As other students were    13   at their stops, I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus
came to a 
  14   at my destination, and I    15   , carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.
     The row of privet hedge (树篱) came into   16  , which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our
house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray    17   along the top
of the hedge toward the house.
      It was the top of my father"s head, I    18   . Then, each time I came home, be would stand behind the
hedge, watching,    19   he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care,    20   .
     Upon reaching home, I found my father sitting innocently in his chair. "So! It"s you!" he said, his face
lengthening into surprise.

(     )1. A. excited    (     )2. A. suggestion  (     )3. A. spend      (     )4. A. change      (     )5. A. neither    (     )6. A. bicycle    (     )7. A. especially  (     )8. A. complained  (     )9. A. strangest  (     )10. A. for      (     )11. A. work      (     )12. A. made      (     )13. A. treated  (     )14. A. corner    (     )15. A. jumped on (     )16. A. mind      (     )17. A. moving    (     )18. A. understood (     )19. A. until    (     )20. A. in advance

B. certain    B. attempt    B. survive    B. strengthen B. each        B. bus        B. even        B. refused    B. scariest    B. in          B. home        B. led        B. met        B. house    B. went off    B. leaf        B. flying      B. realized   B. after       B. above all

C. surprised     C. trouble       C. earn          C. take            C. none             C. train        C. only             C. cried        C. softest        C. by              C. college         C. found         C. received       C. street        C. got off        C. flower          C. falling        C. imagined      C. since          C. after all

D. aware            D. plan             D. raise            D. show             D. all              D. car              D. once             D. intended         D. lowest           D. on               D. town             D. proved           D. greeted          D. stop             D. climbed on       D. view             D. shining           D. thought         D. though               D. in total