阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。  

    I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son looked     1at me and said,  "I love you."  I didn't know what to say.     2several seconds all I could do was to stand there and    3down at him. My first thought was that he must need     4with his homework or he was trying to     5me  for  some  news.

   Finally I asked,  "What was that all about?"

   "Nothing,"  he said.  "My teacher said we should     6our parents that we love them and see what they say. It' s 7” .

    The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this "experiment" and how the other parents had     8.

   "Most of the fathers had the     9reacting as you did," the teacher said.  "When I first     10we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble. The

11is," the teacher explained,  "felling loved is an important part of

12. It is something all people     13. What I' m trying to tell the children is that it' s too    14we don' t all express those feeling. A boy should be     15to tell his dad he loves him."

   The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how     16it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.

     When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for ___17second. And just     18he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly voice,  "Hey, I love you, too."

I don' t know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time one of my children said "I love you.", it would not take me a whole

19to think of the fight     20.

1.A. down          B. away            C. out            D. up

2.A. After          B. For              C. At            D. On

3.A. sit             B. get              C. look           D. knock

4.A. rest            B. time             C. help           D. paper

5.A. report          B. prepare           C. answer        D. excuse

6.A. help            B. tell              C. ask           D. make

7.A. a matter        B. an experiment      C. a word        D. a sentence

8.A. said           B. reacted            C. done          D. explained

9.A. same          B. different           C. usual         D. common

10.A. suggested      B. agreed             C. allowed       D. planned

11.A. point          B. idea               C. way         D. cause

12.A. body          B. health             C. life          D. study

13.A. have           B. know             C. take          D. require

14.A. bad            B. good             C. late           D. early

15.A. fit             B. ready             C. worth        D. able

16.A. easy           B. much             C. often        D. difficult

17.A. a more         B. a full             C. an exact      D. an extra

18.A. before          B. after             C. because      D. if

19.A. day            B. week             C. afternoon     D. night

20.A. answer         B. key               C. reason       D. experiment