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Alone in the light at the dining room table,   I sat in tears.         Finally,   I'd succeeded in getting both kids to bed.  I got them both washed,   __1__ by cries of delight,   crazy running around,   laughing and throwing things.  __2__ calmed down,   they lay in their beds as I gave each the five minutes' back rubs as usual.  Then I began the night time routine of a song,   both kids' __3__.  I sang it over and over until they seemed fully engaged in __4__.         A recently __5__ man with full custody (监护权) of his children,   I was determined to give them as __6__ and stable a home life as possible.  I __7__ a happy face for them.  Everything was just as it had always been with the exception __8__ their mother was now missing.  There,   another night successfully __9__.        I rose slowly,   tiptoed out of their room and went downstairs.         Sitting at the  10   room table,   I realized that this was the first time since I came home from work that I'd been able to   11   sit down.        Then it all crowded in on me:the fatigue(疲惫),   the   12   of the responsibility,   the worry about bills I wasn't sure I pay that month.  And  13  .  I felt as though I was at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness.   I sat there,   silently sobbing.  Just then,   a pair of little arms went around my middle and a little face peered up at me.  I looked down into my fiveyearold son's   14   face.        I was    15   to be seen crying by my son.  "I'm sorry,   Ethan,   I didn't know you were still awake.   I'm sorry,   I'm just a little   16    tonight. "      "It's okay,   Daddy.  It's okay to cry,   you're just a 17 . "       I can't express how happy he made me,   who gave me   18   to cry.  He seemed to be saying that I didn't have to always be   19  ,   that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and  20  my feeling.  Somehow,   it was possible for me to get to sleep that night.  Thank you,   my son.

(     )1. A. excited         (     )2. A. Sooner or later (     )3. A. favor           (     )4. A. sleep           (     )5. A. disabled         (     )6. A. ordinary         (     )7. A. put on           (     )8. A. which         (     )9. A. arrived         (     )10. A. dining         (     )11. A. almost       (     )12. A. pleasure       (     )13. A. satisfaction   (     )14. A. puzzled         (     )15. A. embarrassed     (     )16. A. tired           (     )17. A. human           (     )18. A. need           (     )19. A. sad             (     )20. A. give out       B. accompanied     B. Or rather       B. favorite       B. bed             B. married         B. common         B. looked on       B. that           B. celebrated     B. sitting         B. just           B. lack           B. fun             B. suspected       B. delighted       B. sad             B. father         B. time           B. happy           B. let out         C. encouraged     C. On time       C. entertainment C. joy           C. divorced       C. regular       C. got on         C. if           C. dismissed     C. bed           C. ever         C. absence       C. loneliness     C. surprising     C. disappointed   C. anxious       C. parent         C. permission     C. strong         C. make out       D. affected           D. More or less       D. hobby             D. imagination       D. discovered         D. normal             D. had on             D. whether           D. concluded         D. study             D. hardly             D. weight             D. worry             D. sympathetic       D. terrified         D. unlucky           D. grown?up           D. order             D. weak               D. carry out

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1-5: BDBAC  6-10: DABDA  11-15: BDCDA  16-20: BACCB