阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was in the 8^th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was  31   to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She  32  the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old  33  thinking that she wouldn’t live  34  from then on.

Over the years, I  35  and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago ,in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike,  36  a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a(an)  37  trying(难受的)day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang  38  .

A short time later, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair,  39  into my son’s room with a box of  40  .After 16 years, I still  41  Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about  42  since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she  43  the path for those people who were less  44  than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be  45  .

Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt  46   .But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was  47  .From this person that I thought would have no  48  of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously(神奇的)  49  and we moved north, but I owe Helen  50  that I can never repay.

Mary Jean Price Walls graduated second in her class in 1950.She had high hopes when she applied to a local college,Southwest Missouri State College.But after sending off her application，she spent months waiting for a reply.It never came.
Worse than simply being denied admission(拒绝接收)，the school didn’t reply to her at all.It wasn’t a matter of her school records，but of her skin color：Wallsis African American，and in those days，that fact alone closed a lot of doors. “I was sad and I was hurt,”Walls told ABC News.“I did not expect the skin color would affect my application.I thought I could go to university like other students.”
Four years later，the government declared that all schools should not discriminate against(歧视)African Americans— but it was too late for Walls.She’d moved on with her life, becoming a wife and a mother，and working as an elevator operator.She retired last year，at the age of 77.
She stayed quiet about the unfairness she’d faced in Missouri State.Her son，Terry，went through school records and found that she’d been the first black student to ever apply to the college.Today,four percent of the Southwest Missouri State College body is African American—including Terry.
Although it’s too late for Missouri State to change the past，the school is awarding Walls with an honorary degree(荣誉学位)from the school.While she knows it’s too late for herto change the course of her own life with the degree，it’s a chance for her to show her family that Missouri State has changed in the last 60 years，and there’s not a single door closed to them anymore.
【小题1】Walls couldn’t enter the local college because________.

If there’s one memory Anna wanted to keep from her experiences during the Second World War, it was her son, Andrzej. Anna, 89, lost touch with him when she was forced to leave her native Poland and sent to a labor camp in Austria more than 60 years ago. Now, 64, Andrzej hugged his mother at the air port, who had been waiting for him.

Andrzej searched for his mother for more than 50 years, almost giving up. But his mother made the first phone call. Unluckily, he wrote down his mother’s phone number wrong and spent another month trying to reach her again. When he did, the two talked regularly on the phone for two months to break down the language barrier. Anna can hardly speak Polish over the years and Andrzej doesn’t speak English.

After the war, Anna could not find her son and went to Italy, finally ending up in Great Britain, the US, then Canada 45 years ago. She used the Internet to track her son, making phone calls with no luck. Meanwhile Andrzej contacted the Polish Red Cross last year to help in his search.

At last, they locate each other at the same time. Andrzej will spend a month with his mother in Britain.

1.Andrzej was about _______ years old when his mother left him for Austria 60 years ago.

A．eight

B．six

C．four

D．two

2.Where did they meet for the first time after 60 years separation?

A．In Britain

B．In Italy

C．In Poland

D．In Canada

3.Andrzej delayed a month to phone his mother because________.

A．he had to learn English first

B．he put down a wrong number

C．he needed some time to prove the news

D．he just couldn’t believe the news at first

4.The best title for the passage would be ________

A．The story of Anna and her son Andrzej

B．The war separated the families for 60 years

C．Anna suffered a great deal from the war

D．Mother reunited with son after 60 years.

Which of the following sentences conveys a fact?  

A. Mary and her son must be home by now. 

B. Careless reading must give poor results. 

C. It’s getting late, and I must leave now.

D. He must be working late at the office.