阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 During my second year of college, I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church, the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year. To be 36 , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the 37 would be---a very low figure that 38 one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about the 39 and decided to move in. At the end of the term I had planned to find 40 living place, since the daughter was to 41 home. To my delight, they 42 that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their 43 ----their people became my people. I 44 accepted the offer. As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be 45 to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I 46 that she was more independent than I first 47 . We finally fell in love, 48 , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more 49 than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go 50 largely because we knew that we are deeply 51 . It isn’t about marriage… It’s about 52 . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as 53 as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be 54 ----you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me. Is there somebody you can depend on? And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is 55 to look after, and when someone is looking after us. 36. A. honest B. surprised C. friendly D. pleased 37. A. price B. rent C. money D. pay 38. A. had B. included C. made D. contained 39. A. idea B. plan C. service D. offer 40. A. same B. different C. another D. extra 41. A. return B. go C. get D. leave 42. A. ordered B. agreed C. arranged D. suggested 43. A. house B. family C. group D. friend 44. A. happily B. sorrowfully C. evidently D. efficiently 45. A. bad B. exciting C. nice D. strange 46. A. realized B. thought C. knew D. doubted 47. A. saw B. told C. imagined D. believed 48. A. separated B. parted C. left D. married 49. A. smooth B. challenging C. exciting D. different 50. A. backward B. eastward C. forward D. westward 51. A. hated B. cared C. felt D. liked 52. A. friendship B. relation C. love D. family 53. A. close B. good C. far D. long 54. A. away B. out C. in D. around 55. A. nobody B. somebody C. anybody D. everybody |