Standing in the driveway, I watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their 36 _____ .
“They live too far away from me,” I said to myself. “When did they 37 _____ and become parents of small children? 38 _____ that be me?”
I slipped back inside the house and just walked through the rooms for no reason 39  _____.1 was just missing them already and looking for 40 _____ of their having been here. There were pillows on the floor and a few stuffed (填充）animals 41 _____ around where the children had been playing.
I walked into the 42 _____ and there on the back of the sink was a bottle brush that had been left behind. “Ah，even Tessa left something behind,” I 43  _____ Well, I suppose she had help 44 _____ she was just four months old.
As I walked around the house, I picked up a few more 45 _____ on the floor — Tegan’S tooth, a pie pan, and the inside of a turkey fryer.
ttHmmm, things left behind ...’’I thought to myself. It seems there is one thing left behind on every 46 _____ . Memories are always left behind, I reasoned, and what a(n) 47 _____ thing good memories are to us. I thought how each item left behind 48 _____ me of the person it belonged to and the story 49 _____ it.
Memories happen even if we aren’t 50 _____ of it. The stressful and difficult moments often become memories that we 51 _____ later with laughter and joy. The memories of past hurts, bitterness, and anger, 52 . should be left behind 53  _____These are the things that we should never 54 _____ until the next time they come, mail back, or bring with us to 55_____next visit.
As Elizabeth Stone said, “To have a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

A．smiles B．vehicles C．pains D．bicycles

A．drop out B．break away C．set off D．grow up

A．Wouldn’t B．Shouldn’t C．Can’t D．Needn’t

A．in particular B．with anger C．with joy D．in return

A．signals B．atmosphere C．signs D．information

A．lying B．jumping C．moving D．looking

A．house B．distance C．kitchen D．driveway

A．announced B．explained C．complained D．replied

A．when B．unless C．until D．since

A．toys B．items C．memories D．treasures

A．table B．course C．occasion D．comer

A．funny B．private C．ordinary D．precious

A．reminded B．informed C．warned D．convinced

A．promoting B．surrounding C．acknowledging D．exposing

A．proud B．ashamed C．aware D．afraid

A．attach importance to B．throw doubt on C．look forward to D．look back upon

A．besides B．therefore C．otherwise D．though

A．partly B．sometimes C．forever D．unwillingly

A．present B．keep C．overlook D．experience

A．our B．their C．its D．your