Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years. She would   51  down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead.

    I don’t remember when it first started  52  me-her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt work-worn and rough  53  my young skin. Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that any more-your hands are too rough!” she made no  54  and left quietly. But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her  55  .

With the passing years, my   56  returned to that night time after time. By then I   57  my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss. Sometimes the incident seemed very  58  , sometimes far away, but always it was  59   in the back of my mind.

The years have passed, and I’m not a little girl any more. Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once  60  to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.

Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives  61  . One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself  62  to her house to spend the night with her. As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to  63  the hair from my forehead. Then a   64  , ever so gently , touched my forehead. I burst into tears.

In my memory, thousands of times, I   65  the night my young voice complained. Catching Mom’s hand in hand, I told her how  66  I was for that night. I thought she’d remember  67  I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had already forgotten and   68  long ago.

That night, I fell asleep with a new  69  for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was   70  to be found.

51．A．lie                       B．bend                   C．look                    D．fall

52．A．annoying             B．astonishing          C．delighting            D．disappointing

53．A．along                  B．above                  C．against                D．aside

54．A．reply                   B．promise               C．request                D．agreement

55．A．pity                     B．sadness               C．apology               D．love

56．A．feelings               B．opinions              C．spirits                 D．thoughts

57．A．missed                B．forgot                 C．held                    D．shook58．A．strange B．close C．serious                                D．common

59．A．stressed              B．changed              C．hidden                 D．exposed

60．A．expected             B．changed              C．reminded             D．complained

61．A．yet                      B．away                   C．alone                   D．long

62．A．drawn                 B．carried                C．moved                D．stayed

63．A．cut                     B．wash                   C．brush                  D．take

64．A．tear                     B．kiss                     C．press                  D．hand

65．A．returned              B．remembered         C．realized               D．recalled

66．A．sorry                  B．happy                  C．angry                  D．nervous

67．A．when                  B．how                    C．why                    D．as

68．A．disappeared         B．forgiven              C．apologized           D．abandoned

69．A．imagination          B．inspiration            C．decoration           D．appreciation

70．A．still                     B．soon                   C．nowhere              D．anyhow

 Teachers recommend parents ____ their children under 12 to ride bicycles to school for safety.

  A. not allow      B. do not allow              C. mustn’t allow       D. couldn’t allow

 He did not regret saying what he did but felt that he ____ it differently.

  A. could express                                       B. would express    

C. could have expressed                              D. must have expressed

George is going to talk about the geography of his country, but I’d rather he ____more on its culture.

  A. focus           B. focused            C. would focus         D. had focused

 I think it is high time that you ______.

  A. have made up your mind                B. made up your mind 

C. will make up your mind                 D. had made up your mind

Mary wishes that she ___ law instead of history when she was in college.

   A. had studied     B. studies              C. has studied         D. studied

 If I hadn’t stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell, you __now.

  A. wouldn’t be smiling                                 B. couldn’t have smiled 

C. won’t smile                                                   D. didn’t smile

___ fired, your health care and other benefits will not be immediately cut off.

   A. Would you be   B. Should you be        C. Could you be      D Might you be

Most foreign students don’t like American coffee, and ____.

   A. I don’t too      B. either don’t I        C. neither don’t I     D. neither do I

It was in the small house____ was destroyed by the flood___ he spent his childhood.

   A. which; that     B. that; where           C. where; that       D. that; which