I watch her and her mother decorate her college dormitory room. Everything is in place organized and arranged. Her room nicely accommodates not only her clothes and bric-a-brac(小摆设), but her ___36___ as well. I begin to accept that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she ___37___. I ___38___ myself thinking of when I held her in the cradle of my arm, in the chair alongside my wife's hospital bed. One day old. So ___39___, so beautiful, so perfect, so ___40___ dependent on her new, ___41___ parents. Time marches relentlessly(不停地). She looks up now, catching me ___42___ at her, causing her to say to her mother.' Mom, Dad's looking at me ___43____”. The last few days, I touch her arm, her face--- ___44___ that when my wife and I return home, she will not be ___45___ us. I have so much to say, but no ___46___ with which to say it. My ___47___ changed from the day I drove this child home from the hospital. I saw myself ___48___ that day, and it has led to a lot of places that I would never have found on my own. She says, “It'll be all right, Dad. I'll be home from school ___49___.” I tell her she will have a great year but I say little else. I am afraid somehow to speak and I only hold on to our good-bye hug a little longer, a little ___50___. I gaze into her eyes and ___51___to go. My wife's eyes follow her as she leaves us. ___52___ do not. Maybe if I don't look, I can imagine that she really hasn't ___53___ ; I know that what she is embarking upon(开始) is exciting and wonderful. I remember what the world looked like to me ___54___ everything was new. As I walk to the car with my wife at my side, my eyes are wet, my heart is sore, and I realize that my life is ___55___ forever. 小题1: A．sister's B．teachers' C．mother's D．roommates' 小题2: A．lives B．visits C．separates D．graduates 小题3: A．force B．leave C．find D．have 小题4: A．small B．big C．funny D．strong 小题5: A．severely B．totally C．slightly D．strictly 小题6: A．innocent B．casual C．qualified D．inexperienced 小题7: A．laughing B．staring C．glaring D．looking 小题8: A．funny B．frightening C．kind D．sad 小题9: A．expecting B．imaging C．knowing D．doubting 小题10: A．for B．with C．within D．along 小题11: A．sentence B．quotes C．saying D．words 小题12: A．day B．career C．life D．age 小题13: A．easily B．carefully C．differently D．seriously 小题14: A．quick B．soon C．fast D．rapidly 小题15: A．gentler B．softer C．tighter D．warmly 小题16: A．start B．turn C．run D．wonder 小题17: A．Hers B．My wife's C．Mine D．Ours 小题18: A．gone B．grown C．born D．found 小题19: A．although B．where C．when D．why 小题20: A．destroyed B．beginning C．ended D．changing