2008年高考完形填空专练2

21--40篇

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was   1   into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa,   2  , with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn’t type fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment（尴尬）at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof of how   3   I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very   4   to understand. “I guess we all have to   5   sometime, ”Mother said quietly. I could   6   her pain and the tension（压力）of   7   the strong feelings that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something inside me   8  . I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face   9   my shoulder and sobbed. I held her   10   and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could   11   it was enough. In that moment, feeling Mother’s   12   with feelings, I understood for the first time her being so easy to   13  . She was still my mother,   14   she was something   15  : a person like me, capable of fear and   16   and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions（场合）when I sought   17   in her arms.

    A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station   18  . “It’s a job I can do, though”she said simply. But the evening practice on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very   19   feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her tapping   20   across the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.