Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years. She would 21 down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead.

　　I don’t remember when it first started 22 me-her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt work-worn and rough 23 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 24 and left quietly.

　　But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her 25 .

　　With the passing years, my 26 returned to that night time after time. By then I 27 my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss. Sometimes the incident seemed very 28 , sometimes far away, but always it was 29 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 30 to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.

　　Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives 31 . One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself 32 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 33 the hair from my forehead. Then a 34 , ever so gently , touched my forehead. I burst into tears.

　　In my memory, thousands of times, I 35 the night my young voice complained. Catching Mom’s hand in hand, I told her how 36 I was for that night. I thought she’d remember 37 I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had already forgotten and 38 long ago.

　　That night, I fell asleep with a new 39 for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was 40 to be found.

　　21.A.lie B.bend C.look D.fall

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

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

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

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

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

　　27.A.missed B.forgot C.held D.shook

　　28.A.strange B.close C.serious D.common

　　29.A.stressed B.existed C.hidden D.exposed

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

　　31.A.yet B.away C.alone D.long

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

　　33.A.cut B.wash C.brush D.take

　　34.A.tear B.kiss C.press D.hand

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

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

　　37.A.when B.how C.why D.as

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

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

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

　　答案：

　　21—40 BACAD DABCB CACBD ADBDC

　　21.B bent down 意即：母親在床邊俯身，

　　22. A “when it first started annoying me…” 句中的it指母親捋我頭發(fā)這事，母親這一舉動使我不高興。

　　23. C 母親的手撫摸我，我感到粗糙。against 有 touching 之意。

　　24. A 我沖母親叫，她沒回應。這里用reply promise : 諾言;request: 要求;agreement: 同意

　　25. D 根據(jù)上下文，這里的意思是：母親表達的是一種愛。

　　26. D 我?guī)啄曛�后又想到那晚的情景，think的名詞是thoughts;feelings: 感情，心情，

　　27. A 我懷念母親的手。missed: 想念，惦記

　　28. B 兒時發(fā)生的那件事在我的記憶中時而近時而遠，但總是內(nèi)心揮之不去的愧疚。close與后文的far away有關。

　　29. C 句中的it指“愧疚”，它始終在我心中。be hidden in 隱藏在……; exist是不及物動詞搭配不對

　　30.B “I once changed to be so rough”是定語從句修飾hands, 這里的意思是：我使母親的手變得粗糙，因為母親為我操勞了許多。

　　31. C 父親去世后，母親單獨生活。后文有…to her house to spend the night with her

　　32. A drawn to her house: 自己被母愛所“吸引”

　　33. C 把擋住額頭的頭發(fā)梳了過去。 brush one’s hair：梳頭發(fā)

　　34. B 母親吻了我。

　　35. D recall：回憶;returned：返回;歸還; remembered：記住; realized：意識到。I recalled the night.. 意即：I thought of the night…

　　36. A sorry一詞與愧疚有關。其余的選項與上下文意思不符。

　　37. D as I did是一個表方式的狀語，像我一樣記得那事。

　　38. B forgotten and forgiven說的是母親忘了，原諒了我。. abandoned：被放棄[扔棄，遺棄]了的。

　　39. D 這里說的是作者對母親的手產(chǎn)生了一種新的“感激”

　　40. C 母女情深，這時我感到得到了母愛的包容，因而我的愧疚蕩然無存。