第二节   完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

 People say one man's trash(垃圾) is another man's treasure. That   11   comes to me as I   12  the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house  13    my sister and me when he died a few months ago.

After Dad was   14  , we looked around the   15  house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so   16   all the stuff(东西) left. Like so many of their generation, my parents   17   everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious   18   about what to abandon and what to keep.

As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every   19   my parents ever saw, I also   20   many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it,   21   her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler,   22   everything ----- from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the   23   . The letters he wrote during the war  24   his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I  25  our old kitchen table, which brought back    26   of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together. 

   I'm realizing all these things  27  my parents' life journey. Each time I go to  28  , I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I  29  knew.  30   , from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.

11. A. coincidence B. goal    C. principle     D. thought

12. A. looked for B. looked through  C. looked into  D. looked after

13. A. to       B. for   C. with        D. by 

14. A. retired B. ill   C. gone  D. injured 

15. A. clean  B. strange    C. empty  D. modern]

16. A. pleased with    B. familiar with  C. astonished at   D. disappointed at

17. A. saved       B. enjoyed    C. purchased     D. designed 

18. A. decisions   B. bargains    C. challenges    D. responsibilities]

19. A. person      B. doctor   C. neighbor      D. child 

20. A. bought       B. discovered    C. buried    D. lost

21. A. just   B. even       C. only    D. yet

22. A. liked   B. bought   C. kept D. lost

23. A. countryside    B. school   C. college       D. army 

24. A. receive B. direct    C. sense       D. describe

25. A. repaired      B. cleaned   C. spotted   D. set

26. A. introductions     B. memories C. descriptions   D. communications 

27. A. represented       B. recognized   C. instructed    D. confirmed 

28. A. the supermarket   B. church   C. my office   D. the house

29. A. merely      B. always    C. really   D. never

30. A. Everything     B. Nothing   C. Anything    D. Something
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