题目内容：

“I wouldn’t buy that woman a Mother’s Day card, even if my life depended upon it,” said the woman standing by the card shelf at Wal-Mart. I looked up and saw a(n) __ of total disgust and disappointment.

Having been __ at a Florida orphanage (孤儿院) at age four, I never knew what it felt like to have a mother or a father. Never once had I received a hug or a kiss from my parents. That part of my life is a total __.

She looked up, saw me looking at her and __ angrily, “Just what are you looking at, you fool?”

“Sorry Ma’am. I never had a mother, and I was __ by your words.” I reached over and picked up a nice-looking __, opened it and began to read, “Thank you __ for being my mother.”

“Do you think your mother would like that card? Mine would, I think,” I said.

“Do you know what it is like to be yelled at for years, and __ be told that you are loved?” she asked.

“My mother didn’t __ me, let alone shout. She just took me to the orphanage and that’s where I stayed until I grew up,” I replied.

“Don’t you __ her?” she asked.

“Oh, I can’t. She’s my mother. Being a mother is a position to be __, even if she is not a very nice person,” I told her. The woman stood there __ her head.

I looked down at the floor and said, “I know your mother __ have done a lot of things that hurt you. It appears as if you hate her. But I can tell you this from my __ that disliking her, or even hating her, feels nowhere near as __ as never having known a mother at all—good or bad. At least, you feel __. For me, it’s all just a large blank of loneliness inside my heart, and that’s __ I’ll feel until I die.”

The woman stood there for several seconds. __, she reached out, took the card from my hand, smelled it, and placed it in her cart.

After she left, I __ a nice card for my mother. I took it home, __ it, and placed it with the other Mother and Father’s Days cards bought all these years, each marked “Address Unknown”.

1.A. idea    B. appearance    C. impression    D. look

2.A. reduced    B. lost    C. deserted    D. rescued

3.A. blank    B. pain    C. misfortune    D. dark

4.A. required    B. stared    C. screamed    D. refused

5.A. shocked    B. annoyed    C. disappointed    D. relieved

6.A. envelope    B. book    C. card    D. magazine

7.A. simply    B. basically    C. originally    D. mainly

8.A. often    B. sometimes    C. never    D. once

9.A. leave behind    B. turn to    C. care about    D. know of

10.A. accuse    B. love    C. miss    D. hate

11.A. expected    B. obeyed    C. respected    D. depended

12.A. shaking    B. raising    C. dropping    D. nodding

13.A. might    B. need    C. would    D. should

14.A. belief    B. responsibility    C. experience    D. nature

15.A. fragile    B. lonely    C. anxious    D. hateful

16.A. nothing    B. everything    C. anything    D. something

17.A. what    B. where    C. how    D. why

18.A. Cheerfully    B. Eagerly    C. Willingly    D. Hesitantly

19.A. turned out    B. made out    C. worked out    D. picked out

20.A. mended    B. signed    C. covered    D. exposed