：完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
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Soon Tommy’s parents, who had recently separated (分居), would arrive for a meeting on his failing schoolwork and
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behavior. Neither parent knew that I had called up
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.
Tommy, an only child, had
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been happy, cooperative, and an excellent student. How could I make his father and mother
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that his recent failing grades
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a brokenhearted child’s reaction to his respected parents’ separation and possible
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?
Tommy’s mother came in and
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one of the chairs I had placed near my desk. Then the father
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and was surprised to see his wife. They pointedly ignored each other.
As I gave a detailed
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of Tommy’s behavior and schoolwork, I prayed for the
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words to bring these two together to help them see what they were doing to their son.
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somehow the words wouldn’t come.
I found a crumpled (弄皱的), tear-stained
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in the back of Tommy’s desk. Writing covered both sides, a single
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scribbled (乱写) over and over.
Silently I smoothed it out and gave it to Tommy’s mother. She read it and then without a word
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it to her husband. He frowned. Then his face softened. He studied the scribbled words for
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seemed a future life.
At last he folded the paper carefully and
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his wife’s hand. She wiped the tears from her
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and smiled up at him. I also couldn’t keep back tears, but
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seemed to notice.
In this way I used the words to
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that family. On the sheet of yellow copy paper
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with the painful outpouring of a small boy’s troubled heart, it said, “Dear Mother; Dear Daddy; I love you. I love you. I love you.”
| 小题21: | | A．satisfying | B．exciting | C．disappointing | D．surprising |
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| 小题22: | | A．the others | B．the other | C．another one | D．each other |
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| 小题23: | | A．never | B．rarely | C．always | D．usually |
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| 小题24: | | A．hope | B．believe | C．promise | D．trust |
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| 小题25: | | A．stood for | B．looked for | C．cared for | D．made for |
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| 小题26: | | A．happiness | B．cruelty | C．selfishness | D．divorce |
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| 小题28: | | A．reached | B．sat | C．arrived | D．went |
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| 小题29: | | A．account | B．record | C．writing | D．paper |
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| 小题30: | | A．common | B．exciting | C．mistaken | D．right |
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| 小题32: | | A．letter | B．sheet | C．message | D．schoolwork |
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| 小题33: | | A．word | B．article | C．phrase | D．sentence |
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| 小题34: | | A．threw | B．took | C．handed | D．picked |
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| 小题35: | | A．which | B．as if | C．what | D．when |
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| 小题36: | | A．reached for | B．hunted for | C．kept off | D．searched for |
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| 小题37: | | A．faces | B．eyes | C．head | D．nose |
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| 小题38: | | A．both | B．neither | C．either | D．none |
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| 小题39: | | A．reunite | B．unite | C．satisfy | D．keep |
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| 小题40: | | A．lined | B．colored | C．written | D．covered |
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