题目内容：

Valerie was very worried about her dad. For some time now she had noticed he was _______ his hair. One day, she asked him, “Daddy, every day you have less hair. _______ is that?” Her father smiled and said, “It’s the hair thief. He visits my _______during the night when I’m asleep. One by one he pulls out my hair, and there’s no way to _______him.”

This worried Valerie, but she was _______to help her dad. That night she stayed _______as long as she could. When she was _______her dad and mom had fallen asleep, she took a hammer and went to their bedroom slowly and _______. She didn’t want the hair thief to _______her. When she arrived at her father’s side, she carefully inspected her father’s head in order to catch the hair thief as soon as he ________. Before long, she saw a shadow on her father’s head and she ________it with the hammer.

Her father ________a loud cry and got out of bed at once. He turned the ________on, and trembling with ________, he saw Valerie waving her hammer in the air. “Daddy, I ________got him. But it looks like he ________!” said Valerie. Meanwhile, the mother ________. She burst into ________when she knew what had happened.

So Valerie’s father had to explain that the hair thief didn’t exist, and that losing hair is something that just happens naturally to most fathers. Valerie still ________about her daddy, but she no longer waited for the hair thief. ________, she bought her father a very nice sleeping hat.

1.A. checking    B. losing    C. touching    D. protecting

2.A. When    B. Where    C. Why    D. What

3.A. neck    B. face    C. ears    D. head

4.A. catch    B. throw    C. hold    D. keep

5.A. excited    B. determined    C. expected    D. allowed

6.A. awake    B. asleep    C. afraid    D. alone

7.A. glad    B. sorry    C. upset    D. sure

8.A. sadly    B. nervously    C. loudly    D. quietly

9.A. disappoint    B. know    C. hear    D. catch

10.A. appeared    B. left    C. returned    D. followed

11.A. caught    B. felt    C. hit    D. covered

12.A. came out    B. let out    C. sent out    D. set out

13.A. radio    B. television    C. computer    D. light

14.A. shock    B. delight    C. care    D. hope

15.A. still    B. hardly    C. nearly    D. never

16.A. stayed    B. escaped    C. failed    D. moved

17.A. woke up    B. showed up    C. looked out    D. turned around

18.A. shouts    B. tears    C. laughter    D. cheers

19.A. knew    B. thought    C. wondered    D. worried

20.A. Though    B. Instead    C. Otherwise    D. Besides