题目内容：

My parents owned a 500-acre farm in Montana when I was young. Life there was filled not just with fun and games but______as well. The lambing season was especially hard. Montana’s freezing spring weather kept my parents watching______mamas at all hours of the day and night______a newborn lamb.

It was during this time of new life that my favorite childhood memory______. One exceptionally______day, my mother spied a sheep trying to deliver her baby lamb and needed our______. My mother calmly held the sheep’s head and______me to get hold of the lamb’s protruding(伸出) legs.

I______and must have had a look of panic on my face. The little things were______not something I wanted to touch. But I______my courage and wrapped my fingers______them. I can still remember the______of the unexpectedly delicate legs. My heart beat in fear and excitement______I pulled with all my strength. The lamb was delivered!

I was no______to seeing farm animals being born, but to have a______in it was something I will cherish forever. I’m sure everyone got very______hearing me tell and retell my heroic story.

Looking back, I’m so glad that I didn’t______to get my hands dirty, If I had, the miraculous moment and the precious memory would have been______. I try to instill(逐渐灌输) that life______into my children. Sometimes you need to get your hands a little dirty to experience something______and pure.

1.A. pleasure    B. danger    C. dilemma    D. hardship

2.A. pregnant    B. working    C. desperate    D. sleeping

3.A. at the risk of    B. in case of    C. free from    D. in exchange for

4.A. faded    B. took place    C. impressed    D. broke down

5.A. warm    B. cold    C. mild    D. hot

6.A. notice    B. support    C. help    D. operation

7.A. begged    B. invited    C. forbade    D. instructed

8.A. wondered    B. resisted    C. suspected    D. hesitated

9.A. surely    B. hardly    C. only    D. hopefully

10.A. lost    B. gathered    C. searched    D. lacked

11.A. beyond    B. through    C. around    D. in

12.A. feel    B. point    C. sight    D. thought

13.A. because    B. as    C. if    D. unless

14.A. stranger    B. beginner    C. newcomer    D. speaker

15.A. memory    B. hand    C. look    D. difference

16.A. proud of    B. excited about    C. tired of    D. sorry for

17.A. refuse    B. promise    C. choose    D. pause

18.A. kept    B. lost    C. ignored    D. forgotten

19.A. quality    B. skill    C. lesson    D. standard

20.A. upset    B. funny    C. thrilling    D. amazing