阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call __1__and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did __2__the water. Any kind of __3__ride seemed to give him pleasure. __4__he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being __5__the water, moving through it, __6__it all around me. I was not a strong __7__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __8__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __9__those summer days with my father, who __10__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __11__person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __12__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __13__anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __14__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _15__. But my father always __16__and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s __17__.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __18__ an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood,; the rest is __19__.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but __20__, in that childhood, look at us.
1.A. desire B. joy C. anger D. worry
2.A. avoid B. refuse C. praise D. love
3.A. boat B. bus C. train D. bike
4.A. But B. Then C. And D. Still
5.A. on B. off C. by D. in
6.A. having B. leaving C. making D. getting
7.A. swimmer B. rider C. walker D. runner
8.A. hopes B. faiths C. rights D. fears
9.A. spending B. saving C. wasting D. ruining
10.A. should B. would C. had to D. ought to
11.A. next B. only C. other D. last
12.A. away from B. out of C. by D. inside
13.A. put up B. break down C. play with D. work out
14.A. the moment B. the first time C. while D. before
15.A. fishing net B. office things C. wooden chair D. lab equipment
16.A. stood up B. set out C. showed up D. turned out
17.A. fine B. strange C. terrible D. funny
18.A. the student B. the assistant C. myself D. himself
19.A. memory B. wealth C. experience D. practice
20.A. which B. who C. what D. whose
—Shall we go out for dinner tonight?
—______.
A. You are right B. It must be funny
C. That sounds great D. Have a nice time
Why are you so anxious? It isn’t your problem ______.
A. on purpose B. in all C. on time D. after all
Running a company is not ______ a matter of hiring people — they also need to be trained.
A. simply B. partly C. seriously D. equally
Everything was perfect for the picnic ______ the weather.
A. in place of B. as well as C. except for D. in case of
Don’t promise anything ______ you are one hundred percent sure.
A. whether B. after C. how D. unless
