The Quiet Hero 沉默的英雄
It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll  1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I  2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t  3    my waitress’ salary to buy.
But what  4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were  5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I  6    I had done for them. I just hoped they  ___7  .
As I walked into the  8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase  9   a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly  10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It  11  :
She took a day off from her busy  12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early  13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was  15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to  16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy   17    one in the morning…
It took me long enough to    18    it, but I finally know who the  19    hero is. Mom, I love you!
And suddenly, it was a  20    Mother’s Day, after all.
1. A. admit               B. adopt                   C. deny                   D. refuse
2. A. intended            B. liked                    C. tended                     D. hesitated
3. A. stress                B. spare                    C. strengthen            D. spend
4. A. poor                    B. great                    C. faithless                   D. pretty
5. A. merely             B. usually                    C. never                       D. often
6. A. wished             B. hoped              C. expected                  D. desired
7. A. supported          B. understood            C. approved                 D. disgusted
8. A. 1iving-room         B. kitchen                 C. bed loom                 D. study
9. A. including                 B. containing           C. possessing            D. pinning
10. A. handwriting    B. description           C. tone                        D. scratch
11. A. wrote              B. recorded               C. memorized              D. read
12. A. event              B. content           C. schedule                  D. circumstance
13. A. or                  B. for                       C. but                          D. so
14. A. At                  B. In                           C. On                          D. By
15. A. impressed       B. printed                    C. presented                 D. pressed
16. A. buy                B. abandon               C. get                          D. swap
17. A. before            B. until                    C. after                        D. when
18. A. see                        B. hear                     C. realize                     D. tell
19. A. actual             B. true                     C. imaginary            D. visual
20. A. sad                    B. bitter                   C. happy                      D. Exciting