完形填空。 'Today is the day I start the big diet (节食),' I told my wife as I raised my hand and   __ 1 __, 'No chocolate today!' 'Oh, has the hospital gift shop   __ 2 __   selling it?' she asked. 'No,' I said. 'I'll just have to   __ 3 __   my strong determination.' But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there   __ 4 __. I knew my promise would   __ 5 __   disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I'd always be eating a piece of candy from the   __ 6 __   bag he often shared with me. Benton was an eightyearold boy who was    __ 7 __    because of a kind of cancer, which caused him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen   __ 8 __   old. For the next twentysix months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed   __ 9 __   Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he   __ 10 __   a headache and lost   __ 11 __   on his right side. His mom   __ 12 __   him to the hospital. Over the next several months, Benton came to our   __ 13 __ many more times. Each time he came, we   __ 14 __    say hello, while Benton answered the   __ 15 __   by holding out a candy from his bag. So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes __ 16 __   but not looking into this world. 'We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?' his mother asked. Without thinking of my diet, I   __ 17 __   into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece   __ 18 __   me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton's   __ 19 __. As I __ 20 __   it up, I opened the candy and ate it. (     )1. A. shouted (     )2. A. stopped (     )3. A. base on (     )4. A. once (     )5. A. suddenly (     )6. A. bottomless (     )7. A. ill (     )8. A. years (     )9. A. even though (     )10. A. found (     )11. A. movement (     )12. A. hurried (     )13. A. home (     )14. A. would (     )15. A. meeting (     )16. A. closed (     )17. A. ran (     )18. A. at (     )19. A. illness (     )20. A. put B. answered B. continued B. depend on B. yet B. quickly B. countless B. injured B. seasons B. as though B. developed B. touch B. brought B. room B. could B. greeting B. glimpsed B. touched B. for B. blindness B. hung C. stated C. kept C. insist on C. again C. quietly C. endless C. deaf C. months C. if only C. managed C. motion C. rushed C. office C. should C. encouraging C. glared C. reached C. with C. death C. set D. promised D. tried D. keep on D. early D. shortly D. beltless D. blind D. days D. as with D. provided D. sight D. carried D. hospital D. must D. praising D. opened D. felt D. on D. sadness D. gave