阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I grew up with a fat dad------450 pounds at his heaviest. Every week he’d try a new diet, and my family____ eating whatever freeze-dried he was trying at that moment. He hoped every new diet could stop his waistline from______ .My mother, on the other hand, had no____ in preparing food. Therefore, almost all of our meals____ my dad’s diet foods.
What I remember most about those years is that I was always hungry ------ hungry for food, hungry for nice clean clothes, hungry for someone to ____ when I ran away from home or hid in the closet(壁橱) for hours. I just ____ to be cared for.
But on Friday nights, I was____ hungry. My grandmother would take me to her home for the weekend. When we____, there was always a pot of something cooking on the stove. She taught me how good it felt to be cared for, and how to care for myself and others through____. My grandmother was always____ of my parents’ strange eating habits and ____ on processed diet foods, and made it her duty to teach me how to ____ myself.
After my third-grade year, my dad changed his jobs. ____ as I was, I had to move away from my hometown, Chicago, and leave my grandmother and her delicious food behind. I felt extremely lonely and lost, and I____ my grandmother terribly. My grandmother knew just how I felt------ and she knew the ____: Every week, she would send me a card with a $20 bill, a recipe and a list of what to buy at the market. Her____ filled my body and soul.
Now I’ve grown to better understand my father’s struggles with____. Today, he weighs 220 pounds. Food is no longer a barrier that keeps us____, but a bridge that keeps us connected. There’s nothing my dad enjoys more than talking with me about dietary theories and his weight-loss____. And now I am the one____ sending recipe cards to my father’s house, just as my grandmother did for me.
| 小题1: | | A．put off | B．set out | C．gave up | D．ended up |
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| 小题2: | | A．changing | B．expanding | C．decreasing | D．disappearing |
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| 小题3: | | A．fault | B．difficulty | C．interest | D．pride |
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| 小题4: | | A．consisted of | B．differed from | C．belonged to | D．made up |
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| 小题5: | | A．follow | B．accompany | C．stop | D．notice |
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| 小题6: | | A．forgot | B．desired | C．proved | D．pretended |
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| 小题7: | | A．undoubtedly | B．especially | C．even | D．never |
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| 小题8: | | A．arrived | B．approached | C．agreed | D．returned |
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| 小题9: | | A．creativity | B．guidance | C．cooking | D．observing |
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| 小题10: | | A．envious | B．skeptical | C．proud | D．fond |
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| 小题11: | | A．judgment | B．influence | C．dependence | D．impression |
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| 小题12: | | A．feed | B．relax | C．convince | D．enjoy |
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| 小题13: | | A．Embarrassed | B．Unfortunate | C．Ashamed | D．Unwilling |
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| 小题14: | | A．appreciated | B．missed | C．imagined | D．responded |
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| 小题15: | | A．cure | B．reason | C．feeling | D．rule |
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| 小题16: | | A．expectations | B．recipes | C．promises | D．words |
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| 小题17: | | A．health | B．money | C．weight | D．promotion |
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| 小题19: | | A．problems | B．anxieties | C．benefits | D．victories |
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| 小题20: | | A．completely | B．casually | C．regularly | D．gradually |
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