题目内容：

通读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后在每小题所给的四个选项中, 选出一个最佳答案, 并将答题卡上对应的选项涂黑。

My parents are busy with their work every day. You can’t see there is love ______ them. They don’t act in the romantic（浪漫的）______ that I read in books or I see on TV.

One day, while Mom was sewing(缝) a quilt，I ______ beside her. “Mom, I have a question,” I said after a while.

“What?” she asked.

“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.

She stopped sewing and ______ her head. Then she bowed her head and went on sewing.

I thought I had hurt her. At last I heard my mother say， “Susan, look at this thread（线）. Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt _______. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen, but it’s ______ there.”

     I couldn’t understand her ______ the next spring. My father suddenly got sick. Mom had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

After they ______, my mother helped my father walk slowly down the country road every day. My father had never been so gentle.

“Dad, how are you ______ now?” I asked him one day. “Susan, don’t worry about me,” he said. “I just like walking with your Mom.”

     Once I thought ______ meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that it is just a thread in the quilt of our life . It is inside, making life strong and warm.

1.A. among    B. between    C. with    D. in

2.A. ways    B. movies    C. actors    D. persons

3.A. settled down    B. sat down    C. got down    D. fell down

4.A. raised    B. rose    C. lifted    D. led

5.A. warm    B. wide    C. strong    D. weak

6.A. really    B. also    C. still    D. even

7.A. before    B. since    C. after    D. until

8.A. got on    B. got to    C. got over    D. got back

9.A. feeling    B. thinking    C. running    D. knowing

10.A. friendship    B. study    C. life    D. love