II. Cloze test: 30% (共20小题, 每小题1.5分，满分30分。)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，其后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Several years ago, my parents, my wife, my son and I ate at one of those  16  where the menu was written on a blackboard. After a wonderful dinner, the waiter set the check in the middle of the table. That was when it  17  : my father did not reach for the check.
18  continued. Finally I realized that I should pick up check! After hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents, and after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one with dollars, it had all  19 . I picked up the check, and my view of myself  20  changed. I was an adult. I was no longer a kid.
Some people mark off their lives in years, and I measure  21  in small events. I did not become a young man at a particular age, like 16, but rather when a kid who  22  in the streets called me “Mister”. These events in my life are called “milestones”.
There have been other milestones. The policemen of my youth always seemed big, even  23 , and of course they were older than I was. Then one day they were suddenly  24 . Then the day came when I  25  that all the football players in the game I was  26  were younger than I was. With that milestone  27  was the dream that  __28__ , maybe I, too, could be a football player. Without ever having reached the hill, I was over it.
I never thought that I would  29  in front of the TV set as my father did. Now it is what I do best. I never thought that I would  30  opera, but now the combination of  31  and orchestra attract me. I never thought that I would prefer to stay home in the evenings, but now I find myself passing up parties. I feel a strong  32  for a religious belief that I never thought I would want, feel  33  my ancestors long gone, and echo my father in  34  with my son. I still lose…
One day I bought a house. One day --- what a day! I became a  35 , and not long after that I picked up the check for my own father. I thought then it was a milestone for me. One day, when I was a little older, I realized it was one for him too, another milestone.
16. A. restaurants       B. laundries            C. stadiums              D. markets
17. A. came          B. happened                   C. finished              D. arrived
18. A. Memory        B. Work               C. Nothing               D. Conversation
19. A. remained       B. collapsed             C. changed                    D. broken
20. A. suddenly       B slowly                C. quickly             D. gradually
21. A. theirs          B. yours                C. mine               D. ours
22. A. stopped        B. smoked               C. fainted             D. wandered
23. A. huge           B. tiny                 C. handsome           D. ugly
24. A. none           B. both                       C. either                      D. neither
25. A. understood      B. imagined                   C. realized             D. recognized
26. A. noticing        B. watching            C. talking with                 D. learning from
27. A. gone           B. missed                     C. appeared            D. changed
28. A. tomorrow       B. someday            C. immediately         D. accidentally
29. A. turn over       B. stand up           C. fall asleep           D. lie down
30. A. hate           B. remember           C. forget              D. appreciate
31. A. voice          B. joy                        C. music              D. art
32. A. sense          B. desire             C. emotion            D. love
33. A. away from     B. sorry for            C. close to             D. fond of
34. A. touch          B. fights                      C. games              D. arguments
35. A. son            B. father                      C. businessman         D. Scientist