题目内容：

The shower, I find, is the best place to cry. The water ______ the sound of my sadness，while washing away any ______ of my pain. I shower ______ the kids have gone to bed it’s the only time I can he ______.

I encourage my two boys to cry. My 7-year-old ______ himself on never crying at school. “Oh, but you must cry,” I ______. “Crying is good. It gets the sadness out. Never hold ______ your tears.” But what might ______ do to them to see their mother upset? I ______ did my best to protect my two children from my ______. If I needed to cry, I cried by myself, until...

Then my father died, and there was no ______ I could schedule my ______ and keep my feelings inside.

I tried to get on with things, but the sadness still came. The realization that my dad was actually gone ______ me with an intensity (强度) that was impossible to cover up.

To my surprise, my boys didn’t seem too alarmed. They found me hiding in the bedroom one afternoon,______. “It’s OK, mommies get sad too,” I told them, smiling ______ my tears.

“Don’t be sad, mommy. Granddad’s coming back as a baby,” my 7-year-old said, his tiny arm stretched ______ my shoulders. “Think about love,” he went on. “Think about all the people who love you.”

I realized that in hiding my pain, I was only ______ what it means to be human. It’s ______ thing to tell my children it’s OK to cry. It’s another to show them ______ it’s done.

Our job is not to protect our children, to keep them perfect. Our job is to look and say, “you are ______, and you’re made for struggles, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

1.A. exposes    B. covers    C. changes    D. reduces

2.A. emotion    B. expression    C. evidence    D. dust

3.A. after    B. before    C. until    D. when

4.A. asleep    B. awake    C. alive    D. alone

5.A. concentrates    B. prides    C. depends    D. bases

6.A. request    B. command    C. order    D. insist

7.A. up    B. on    C. back    D. out

8.A. them    B. it    C. that    D. this

9.A. always    B. rarely    C. seldom    D. often

10.A. thoughts    B. difficulties    C. tears    D. problems

11.A. doubt    B. point    C. need    D. way

12.A. sadness    B. surprise    C. disappointment    D. anger

13.A. inform    B. remind    C. hit    D. make

14.A. weeping    B. wept    C. sweeping    D. swept

15.A. for    B. at    C. in    D. through

16.A. on    B. across    C. by    D. to

17.A. explaining    B. denying    C. proving    D. expecting

18.A. the other    B. other    C. the one    D. one

19.A. how    B. what    C. that    D. why

20.A. upset    B. perfect    C. imperfect    D. painful