高中英语 完形填空之天津模拟试题精选（4）.pdfVIP

（1）南开中学2020 届高三年级模拟考试 For years,Ithought apresent andagift asthesamething. I grew up in a household where presents marked special ____16____ There was always a box for each of us under the tree at Christmas.____17____,Dad always gave Mom something each Valentine’sDay and anniversary. He would carefully plan his shopping trips to findjust the ___18___ thing. Hisjoy in the hunt was proof of the ___19___ofgiving andofhislove forher.I sawthesepresentsasthe___20___ ofahusbandsdevotion. Sowhen Imarried amanwhodidnot givepresentson aregularbasis,itwasan___21___ I wrestled with my expectation. Gary did hot ___22___ avoid gift-giving. Gary would return from sea armed with abrown paper bag inside ofwhich was something that___23___ him ofme.But mostly,he ignoredholidays, ___24___ to shop for athingtopresenttomeasasign oflove. I tried to change him ____25____. I prepared gifts for Christmas and for his birthdays ____26____. He appreciatedthecaring,butrefusedtodothe samething forme.I droppedhints,they____27____ deafears. I began to tell him what I wanted, giving ____28____ instructions. When Gary left for the market one Saturday, I asked him to find me diamond earrings as a birthday present.Yet he came home with a road scraper （刮路机）. ____29____when the snowstorm stopped later that year and he was at sea, I used the road scraper to plow （犁）out both our driveway and our neighbors, thinking how ____30____ earrings would have been and it was then that I realized he had been giving me gifts all along. The gestures, large and small, born of his caring and concernwerethe____31____thathegavedaily. We____32____ to teach othershow to love us.In that struggle, we often forget how to ____33____ the love they already giveusasonly they can give it. I finally began to understandthe____34____ between apresent and a gift.Apresent is a thing.But a gift is a smallact ofkindness,thewillingnessto__