阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are ____, one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say, ____ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) ____ memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, _____ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of ___ , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors _____for 200 years.
We soon ___ by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories___back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the ___where I was once so glorious a child. It still ____a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk __ the rooms in memory. Here, my mother ___ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family ___ into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being ___ them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise ____ attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I ___ ; where I belong. "
She has _ her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human __. To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need __ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the___ of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
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| A.appearing |
B.moving |
C.exposing |
D.expanding |
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| A.referring |
B.travelling |
C.pointing |
D.coming |
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| A.shared |
B.short |
C.fresh |
D.treasured |
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| A.passed |
B.raised |
C.moved |
D.sent |
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| A.home |
B.duty |
C.reality |
D.relief |
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| A.built |
B.lived |
C.remained |
D.explored |
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| A.catch up |
B.pull up |
C.step down |
D.come down |
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| A.falling |
B.turning |
C.rushing |
D.bringing |
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| A.yard |
B.village |
C.room |
D.house |
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| A.adapts to |
B.appeals to |
C.belongs to |
D.occurs to |
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| A.across |
B.through |
C.along |
D.past |
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| A.lay |
B.played |
C.stood |
D.sat |
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| A.marching |
B.looking |
C.breaking |
D.pouring |
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| A.between |
B.with |
C.near |
D.behind |
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| A.wonders |
B.listens |
C.reacts |
D.agrees |
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| A.began |
B.grew |
C.studied |
D.stayed |
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| A.deepened |
B.recognized |
C.accepted |
D.found |
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| A.heart |
B.rights |
C.interest |
D.behaviors |
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| A.one |
B.its |
C.that |
D.every |
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| A.meaning |
B.expression |
C.connection |
D.background |
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