（四川省绵阳中学2010届高三高考模拟）

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             &nb