单项选择题


阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. Actually, it was the first time in our lives that she would go away for any length of (13) We wondered how other people had (14) it.
Later in bed, I (15) the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay (16) to keep the cattle from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to (17) college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn’t want to get to (18) too soon. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little (19) He finally said, "You know, I never went to college and (20) of your brothers did. I can’t say don’t do this or that, because everything is (21) and I don’t know what is going to (22) , but I think things will work out. When you get a job, be sure to be (23) and work hard." I knew that soon I would be (24) in the
big town and I would be (25) the life at home.
Then my father brought out the Bible(圣经) that he had read so (26) . I knew that he would miss it and I must (27) it. He just said, "This can help you if you will let it."
When I finished school I took the Bible back to my father. But he said he wanted me to (28) it.
Now, too late, I remember. It would have been so (29) to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn’t. I could give her (30) . My father could give me only a Bible. But I don’t really believe now that I gave her (31) as much as my father gave me. So the next morning I (32) up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note. "This can help you," I said, "if you will let it."

A.natural
B.strange
C.ready
D.nice
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