阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40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。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are
, one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say,
across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)
memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children,
from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of
, and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors
for 200 years.
We soon
by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories
back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the
where I was once so gloriously a child. It still
a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk
the rooms in memory. Here, my mother
in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family
into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being
them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise
attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I
; where I belong. "
She has
her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human
To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need
origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the
of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
| 小题1: | | A．appearing | B．moving | C．exposing | D．expanding |
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| 小题2: | | A．referring | B．travelling | C．pointing | D．coming |
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| 小题3: | | A．shared | B．short | C．fresh | D．treasured |
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| 小题4: | | A．passed | B．raised | C．moved | D．sent |
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| 小题5: | | A．home | B．duty | C．reality | D．relief |
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| 小题6: | | A．built | B．lived | C．remained | D．explored |
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| 小题7: | | A．catch up | B．pull up | C．step down | D．come down |
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| 小题8: | | A．falling | B．turning | C．rushing | D．bringing |
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| 小题9: | | A．yard | B．village | C．room | D．house |
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| 小题10: | | A．adapts to | B．appeals to | C．belongs to | D．occurs to |
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| 小题11: | | A．across | B．through | C．along | D．past |
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| 小题12: | | A．lay | B．played | C．stood | D．sat |
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| 小题13: | | A．marching | B．looking | C．breaking | D．pouring |
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| 小题14: | | A．between | B．with | C．near | D．behind |
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| 小题15: | | A．wonders | B．listens | C．reacts | D．agrees |
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| 小题16: | | A．began | B．grew | C．studied | D．stayed |
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| 小题17: | | A．deepened | B．recognized | C．accepted | D．found |
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| 小题18: | | A．heart | B．rights | C．interest | D．behaviors |
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| 小题20: | | A．meaning | B．expression | C．connection | D．background |
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