高考英语试题 完形填空专练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.

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