题目内容：

完形填空

A certain good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years. She regretted it immediately and would have done anything to have taken the words back. So she went to an older, wiser woman in the village and __________ advice.

Listening to her, the older woman__________ the younger woman’s distress and knew she must help her. She also knew she could___________ ease her pain, but she could teach.

Then, she said. “There are__________ things you need to do. The first is extremely difficult. Tonight, Take your best __________ pillows and open a small hole in each one. Then, ___________ the sun rises, you must put a single feather on the doorstep of each house in town. When you are through, ___________ to me. If you’ve done the first thing _________, I’ll tell you the second.”

The young woman hurried home to prepare for her chore, ___________ the pillows were very___________ to her and very expensive.

All night long, she went from doorstep to doorstep. Her fingers were ___________. The wind was so sharp that it caused her eyes to water, but she ran on through the__________ streets, ___________ that there was something she could do to put things __________ the way they once were. Finally she placed the last feather on the steps of the last house. Just as the sun rose, she returned to the older woman.

She was exhausted but __________,thinking that her efforts would be rewarded.

“Now,” said the wise woman, “Go back and ___________ your pillows. Then everything will be as it was before.”

The young woman was stunned, “You know that’s impossible! The wind__________ each feather as fast as I placed them on the doorsteps! You didn’t say I had to get them back! If this is the second __________, then things will never be the same.”

“That’s true,” said the older woman. “Never forget. Each of your words is like a feather in the wind. Once __________, no amount of effort, regardless how heartfelt or sincere, can ever return them to your mouth. __________your words well and guard them most of all in the presence of those you love.”

1.A. asked          B. asked for       C. asked to      D. ask around

2.A. witnessed      B. touched         C. guessed        D. sensed

3.A. ever          B. almost         C. never         D. seldom

4.A. one            B. two             C. three         D. four

5.A. feather      B. leather        C. woolen        D. cotton

6.A. when           B. after          C. as             D. before

7.A. come back    B. go back         C. put back     D. draw back

8.A. promptly       B. suddenly        C. completely     D. unfortunately

9.A. so as to       B. even though    C. now that     D. in spite of

10.A. hard         B. awful          C. nice           D. dear

11.A. freezed      B. freezingly      C. froze          D. frozen

12.A. brightened    B. widened         C. darkened     D. broadened

13.A. amazing       B. lucky           C. thankful     D. surprising

14.A. on            B. up             C. off           D. back

15.A. tired        B. relieved      C. regretful      D. nervous

16.A. refill       B. get             C. purchase     D. seek

17.A. blew up       B. blew on         C. blew away    D. blew over

18.A. requirement   B. situation       C. consequence   D. circumstance

19.A. speak         B. spoken         C. speaking       D. being spoken

20.A.Talk         B. Guide           C. Keep           D. Choose