完形填空。 It was half an hour before midnight on December 24th last year. I was a ticket-counter supervisor (主管) for a major airline and was looking forward to the 1______ of my shift (轮班) at Stapleton International Airport in Denver. My wife was waiting up for me at home so that we could 2______ our gifts for Christmas. Just then, a very 3______ gentleman went up to me: He asked how he could get to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He had just arrived from Philadelphia and 4______ his connecting flight. I pointed him to the ground transportation area, where he could rent a 5______. And then I called ray wife to let her know I would be home 6______ About fifteen minutes later, the gentleman 7______ and informed me that all the buses were full and there were no cars 8______. I told him that he had to stay for a night ai the airport. Hearing that, he burst into 9______. I tried to make him calm down. He explained that his name was Tom, and that his only son was 10______ ill at home and was not expected to 11______ another year, He expected that this would likely be the 12______ Christmas with his son. I told Tom to 13______ his luggage and wait for me at the gate. I was driving to Cheyenne. I called my wife Kathy, telling her about it and not to wait up for me. I drove fast 14______ and we arrived in Cheyenne around 2:30 a.m. Kathy was still 15______ me when I got home in the early morning. We traded gifts and then our conversation 16______ Tom. For Kathy and me, there was no 17______ that driving Tom to Cheyenne was the 18______ choice. A couple of days later, I 19______ a Christmas card with a picture of Tom and his family. In it, Tom thanked me for the special 20______ lie had received that holiday season, but I knew the best gift was mine. (     )1.A. end (     )2.A. expect (     )3.A. kind (     )4.A. mistook (     )5.A. bus (     )6.A. soon (     )7.A. left (     )8.A. reliable (     )9.A. laughter (     )10.A. really (     )11.A. suffer (     )12.A. last (     )13.A. hand (     )14.A. for a while (     )15.A. waiting for (     )16.A. remembered (     )17.A. idea (     )18.A. main (     )19.A. received (     )20.A. drive B. turn B. get B. helpless B. missed B. flight B. late B. moved B. present B. tears B. slightly B. live B. best B. find B. all around B. caring for B. recalled B. doubt B. only B. sent B. help C. role C. exchange C. sad C. caught C. room C. early C. came C. available C. anger C. seriously C. share C. happiest C. pack C. all the way C. thinking of C. concerned C. point C. nice C. saved C. deal D. change D. make D. worried D. continued D. car D. lately D. returned D. acceptable D. sorrow D. unluckily D. grow D. hardest D. collect D. from time to time D. depending on D. contained D. problem D. great D. discovered D. gift