请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项题卡上将该项。 In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnan,  Ohio, lay a 36 and a lmost endless forest. The area had a few settlements 37 by people of the frontier. Many of them had already left the area for settlements further 39 the west. But among those 40 was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there. He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded 41 all sides by the great forest. He seemed a part of the darkness and 42 of the forest, for no one had 43 known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word. His simple needs were 44 by selling or trading the skins of wild animals in the town. His little log house had a single door. Directly 45 was a window. The window was boarded up（堵住）. No one could remember a(n) 46 when it was not. And no one knew why it had been 47 .  I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the 48 of that window. But I am one, as you shall 49 . The man's name was said to be Murlock. He 50 to be seventy years old, but he was really fifty. Something other than years had been the 51 of his aging. His hair and long, full beard were white.  His gray, 52 eyes were sunken.  His face was wrinkled. He was tall and thin with drooping shoulders—like someone with many 53 . I never saw him. These 54 I learned from my grandfather. He told me the man's story 55 I was a boy. He had known him when living nearby in that early day. 小题1: A．huge B．heavy C．small D．bright 小题2: A．discovered B．created C．established D．invented 小题3: A．visited B．reached C．left D．loved 小题4: A．in B．for C．over D．to 小题5: A．moving B．remaining C．traveling D．hunting 小题6: A．along B．by C．with D．on 小题7: A．silence B．noises C．brightness D．freshness 小题8: A．never B．ever C．once D．sometimes 小题9: A．understood B．exchanged C．satisfied D．offered 小题10: A．outside B．inside C．before D．opposite 小题11: A．time B．opportunity C．story D．experience 小题12: A．opened B．closed C．destroyed D．protected 小题13: A．secreet B．structure C．formation D．construction 小题14: A．guess B．see C．suppose D．feel 小题15: A．seemed B．happened C．pretended D．appeared 小题16: A．cause B．cure C．reason D．affection 小题17: A．pretty B．lively C．lifeless D．horrible 小题18: A．achievements B．enemies C．problems D．dreams 小题19: A．lessons B．details C．summaries D．ideas 小题20: A．because B．since C．when D．although