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years old, spent three days__8__my would not__9__me to pay someone to have it he __10__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to I was had a law practice to run, and I could not take__12__to hold the brush, or talk to my happened several times later. The morning on Sunday, January 16,1996, my father telephoned me__14__, this time from my sister’ s home in the__15__came again at 4∶ 40 p. father was in the__16__in Florida with an aneurysm (動(dòng)脈瘤 ). I got on an airplane__17__, and on the way,I__18__of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my determined that when I arrived, I would__19__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him. I arrived in Florida at 11∶ 30 p. m., my father had__20__at 9∶ 12 p. m..This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or to wait for me. B. never C. always D. often 2. than B. rather than C. more than D. or rather 3. B. before C. although D. since 4. B. praised C. telephoned D. met 5. B. life C. study D. plan 6. B. care C. talk D. look 7. B. found C. purchased D. sold 8. B. painting C. cleaning D. decorating B. advise C. force D. allow 10. B. kept C. ordered D. served 11. B. upset C. busy D. tired 12. B. task C. tea D. time 13. B. Similar C. Funny D. Strange 14. usual B. in pain C. casually D. finally 15. B. moment C. situation D. scene 16. B. school C. home D. hospital 17. B. happily C. gradually D. carefully 18. B. spoke C. thought D. demanded 19. up B. make up C. turn up D. put up 20. out B. given in C. passed away D. e back Ⅲ .閱讀理解 (2021 年?yáng)|北三校第一次聯(lián)考 , E) Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate success in training children, the first condition is to bee a child means to treat the child as really one’ s equal, that is, to show him the same consideration, the same kind of confidence one shows to an means not to affect the child to be what we ourselves want him to bee, but to be af