阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Several times my daughter Carolyn had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils (黄水仙) ________ they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a long drive from my home. “ I will come next Tuesday,” I ________ , a little hesitantly, on her third call.
Next Tuesday I drove there. When I finally ________ Carolyn’s house and hugged my grandchildren, I said, “________ the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the fog, and there is ________ in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive ________ inch!”
My daughter smiled and said, “You will never forgive yourself if you ________ the chance of seeing the beautiful flowers.”
So we drove there. After twenty minutes on the highway we ________onto a small road and I saw a small church. There we got out of the car. I ________Carolyn down the path. As I turned a ________ of the path, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious ________ . There were five acres of flowers. It looked ________ someone had taken ________ gold and poured it down ________ the mountain peak and slopes.
“Who planted all these?” I asked Carolyn.
“It’s ________ one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home,” Carolyn ________ a cottage .We walked up to the house. On the patio(露台), we saw a ________ .
There it was: “ The Daffodil Principe:1. 50,000 bulbs(球茎). 2. One at a time, by one woman. 3. ________ in 1958.”
For me that moment was a life-changing ________.I thought of this woman whom I had ________ met and who had begun one bulb at a time to bring the beauty and joy to an unknown mountaintop.
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A.since |
B.before |
C.unless |
D.until |
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A.allowed |
B.complained |
C.admitted |
D.promised |
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A.slipped into |
B.jumped out |
C.walked into |
D.drove out |
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A.Forgot |
B.Remind |
C.Remember |
D.Remain |
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A.anything |
B.everything |
C.nothing |
D.something |
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A.other |
B.another |
C.more |
D.less |
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A.miss |
B.seize |
C.get |
D.escape |
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A.held |
B.caught |
C.exchanged |
D.turned |
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A.led |
B.showed |
C.followed |
D.took |
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A.side |
B.corner |
C.bank |
D.circle |
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A.sight |
B.park |
C.land |
D.garden |
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A.even if |
B.ever since |
C.as if |
D.what if |
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A.scores of |
B.a great deal of |
C.a number of |
D.many a |
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A.over |
B.through |
C.across |
D.below |
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A.even |
B.still |
C.also |
D.just |
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A.devoted to |
B.stuck in |
C.shouted at |
D.pointed to |
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A.signal |
B.sign |
C.symbol |
D.sample |
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A.Completed |
B.Realized |
C.Began |
D.Finished |
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A.experiment |
B.situation |
C.condition |
D.experience |
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A.never |
B.regularly |
C.surely |
D.always |
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