During the last fifteen years of my mother's life she suffered with Alzheimer's disease (老年性痴呆). Until then she had been a bright, ____ woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. I would go home to visit her in Virginia and she would look at me in a(an) ____ way and ask, "Who are you?" I would answer, "I'm your son." "Where do you live?" She would ask. "In California," I would tell her. "Isn't that interesting," she would say, "I have a son in California."
She seemed ____ forgetful and confused at the beginning of the disease, ____ later on she would go ___ periods of intense anxiety. She would pace through the house she had lived in most of her life ____ uneasily that she wanted to go home. Or she would leave home and wander away if she were ____ for a short time.
Hoping to please her and put her mind ____ I would take her for a drive, visiting sites where she had lived as a ____. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn. I ____ my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some ____. She shook her head and said, "I want to go home."
Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a ____, but a time. I suspect it was a time when she was much ____, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still vigorous and attentive.
Watching my mother's suffering set me wondering ____ I would have in mind if someday I couldn't find ____ and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some ____ symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only ____ and that it comes with age. Still the fear of Alzheimer's is haunting there. Someday ____ and when I become even more ____ minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your ____.
| 小题1: | | A．accessible | B．cheerful | C．hopeful | D．considerate |
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| 小题2: | | A．excited | B．doubtful | C．puzzled | D．amazed |
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| 小题3: | | A．greatly | B．hardly | C．totally | D．simply |
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| 小题5: | | A．with | B．through | C．by | D．over |
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| 小题6: | | A．declaring | B．suggesting | C．crying | D．commenting |
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| 小题7: | | A．unsettled | B．unattended | C．unconcerned | D．uninspired |
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| 小题8: | | A．in place | B．under control | C．in order | D．at ease |
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| 小题9: | | A．lady | B．student | C．child | D．mother |
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| 小题10: | | A．told | B．pictured | C．stated | D．encouraged |
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| 小题11: | | A．response | B．smile | C．reasons | D．answers |
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| 小题12: | | A．name | B．dream | C．symbol | D．place |
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| 小题13: | | A．prettier | B．younger | C．happier | D．healthier |
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| 小题14: | | A．that | B．where | C．which | D．when |
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| 小题15: | | A．memory | B．passion | C．home | D．way |
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| 小题16: | | A．deadly | B．alarming | C．interesting | D．allergic |
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| 小题17: | | A．natural | B．special | C．rare | D．unique |
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| 小题18: | | A．if | B．what | C．until | D．whether |
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| 小题19: | | A．mechanical | B．cloudy | C．clear | D．stubborn |
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| 小题20: | | A．appreciation | B．satisfaction | C．guidance | D．convenience |
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