题目内容：

    Eleven years ago, it seemed as if the world came to an end. My husband of 19 years, the father of my two sons, was diagnosed with terminal cancer (癌症晚期). Over the______of seven months, Bill went from______me easily at tennis to needing my help to go to the bathroom.

It was the best seven months of my life. Maybe I don't actually______that. But it was certainly the time when I felt most______. During those seven months, I came to______that whatever else I did in my life, nothing would_______more than taking care of my husband. I discovered that the minor complaint of an annoying coworker, or a flat tire pales (失色) in______with the beauty of sincere laughter, or the______of a bakery. There were moments of______, laughter, and tenderness in every day. I found I could train myself to see beauty______bother.

In the days after Bill's diagnosis and brain surgery, being his caregiver also meant being fully ______as much as possible. During his last weekend, we had dinner together. Later, a relative visited. I______that she’d changed her appearance, and not in a good way. It was the kind of______I’d usually keep to______. Just then, Bill voiced______what I’d been thinking, in that truthful way he had, and I found myself______out loud. I thought I could look after this man forever, but he ______in four days.

Eleven years later, I haven’t made much achievements.______every day, I try to be the person I became during those seven months. I try to be a little less judgmental, a little more generous, a little more______for the small moments in life.

I am a better person for having been Bill's caregiver. It was his last, best______to me.

1.A.routine B.event C.course D.basis

2.A.beating B.hitting C.striking D.winning

3.A.believe B.decide C.think D.mean

4.A.alive B.awake C.ashamed D.embarrassed

5.A.hope B.understand C.admit D.accept

6.A.differ B.matter C.strengthen D.help

7.A.conflict B.conversation C.comparison D.touch

8.A.reputation B.feeling C.sense D.smell

9.A.joy B.fear C.panic D.sadness

10.A.other than B.rather than C.more than D.less than

11.A.comfortable B.present C.absent D.flexible

12.A.noticed B.watched C.felt D.informed

13.A.concept B.suggestion C.thought D.view

14.A.ourselves B.himself C.herself D.myself

15.A.completely B.exactly C.partly D.accurately

16.A.crying B.shouting C.screaming D.laughing

17.A.passed away B.died away C.went away D.got away

18.A.And B.But C.Or D.While

19.A.thoughtful B.powerful C.careful D.grateful

20.A.moment B.experience C.gift D.subject