My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. It was the first time in our life that we would __36__ for any length of time. We wondered how other people had __37__ it.
Later in bed, I __38__ the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay home to keep the __39__ from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to __40__ college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn’t want to get to the city __41__. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little __42__. He finally said, “I never went to college and __43__ of your brothers did. I can’t say don’t do this or that, because everything is __44__ and I don’t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __45__. When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be __46__ in the big town and I would be __47__ the life home.
Then my father __48__ the Bible that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but I must __49__ it. He just said, “This can help you __50__ you will let it.”
When I finished school I took the Bible __51__ to my father. But he said he wanted me to __52__ it.
Now, too often, I remember. It would have been so __53__ to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn’t. My father could give me only a Bible, but now I don’t really believe that I gave her half as __54__ as my father gave me. So the next morning I __55__ up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note “This can help you.” I said, “if you will let it.”
| 小题1: | | A．worry | B．separate | C．stay | D．travel |
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| 小题2: | | A．left | B．stood | C．enjoyed | D．tried |
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| 小题3: | | A．wasted | B．spent | C．remembered | D．killed |
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| 小题4: | | A．policemen | B．workers | C．cattle | D．birds |
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| 小题5: | | A．graduate from | B．go away to | C．set out | D．set up |
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| 小题6: | | A．very late | B．far away | C．too soon | D．once again |
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| 小题7: | | A．speech | B．living | C．promise | D．progress |
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| 小题9: | | A．impossible | B．different | C．difficult | D．favorite |
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| 小题10: | | A．work out | B．die out | C．hold out | D．break out |
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| 小题11: | | A．happy | B．alone | C．free | D．lost |
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| 小题12: | | A．losing | B．spending | C．missing | D．living |
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| 小题13: | | A．brought about | B．brought out | C．brought up | D．brought down |
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| 小题14: | | A．refuse | B．mark | C．follow | D．take |
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| 小题15: | | A．if | B．unless | C．but | D．though |
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| 小题17: | | A．keep | B．return | C．post | D．sell |
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| 小题18: | | A．popular | B．strange | C．ready | D．nice |
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| 小题20: | | A．set | B．turned | C．gave | D．wrapped |
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