閱讀下面短文，從文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出一個(gè)最佳答案。
One afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married, Max walked into the dining room, where I was looking through my old photos.
These months I was learning to let Max come ___16___ on his own. If I moved too quickly, he ran away. If I was __17__, we often ended up playing, laughing, and recently, even sitting together on the sofa with a book.
“Who’s that?” he pointed to one photo.’
“My mom. I suppose she is your __18___ Sylvia.”
“Cool. Who is that to me?”
“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago.”
“Hmm. Too bad he had to die.”
Death is always a painful __19___, especially for a seven-year-old child who’d lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of __20___ relatives.
He began to finger through the photos. “Who is that to me?”
Under his finger I could see my own face. I should have known the answer to his __21___ question. But I said,“I’m your __22___ mom. I’m sorry that your first mom died.”
“What should I call you？”he asked.
Mom, I wanted to cry. I held back.
“You can call me Mom or Betsy. _______fells OK for you.
I waited, expecting a pronouncement of my new ___24__.
“Sweet,”he said, walking out of the room.
For a couple of days afterward, Max ___25__ a new title for me.“Can we go bowling?”“Can I watch TV?”he’d ask, and then ___26____ the questions by mouthing the word Mom. Mom was always __27____.
One weekend, he suddenly said, “I notice I don’t call you Mom.”
“I noticed that too.”
“__28___ I say Betsy, I mean Mom. Moms die, you know. I think it’s maybe __29__ if you’re just Betsy.”
Tears(眼淚) were filling my eyes.
“Hey, Betsy?”
“Yeah,”I said, taking pleasure in the new __30___ of my old name.
16.A. down B. near C. close D. back
17. A. kind B. patient C. helpful D. confident
18. A. grandmother B. mother C. aunt D. cousin
19. A. subject B. speech C. message D. sign
20. A. dead B. boring C. unknown D. strict
21. A. simple B. proper C. stupid D. funny
22. A. natural B. past C. only D. second
23. A. Whoever B. Whatever C. That D. Anybody
24. A. position B. name C. title D. call
25. A. worked out B. turned out C. carried out D. tried out
26. A. answer B. follow C. confirm D. raise
27. A. alive B. wise C. silent D. lost
28. A. Until B. Before C. When D. Unless
29. A. politer B. safer C. sadder D. riskier
30. A. pronunciation B. announcement C. voice D. sound
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