第二节 完形填空 (共小题;每小题1分，满分分)阅读下面短文，选出最佳选项，并在答题上将该项涂黑。’s November birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. As years __21__, these events took on a __22__ meaning for me—a traditional birthday party for Dad, and a _23___ thanking for all he had been to me in my life.
When we knew that it might be his last birthday, the _24___ family decided to prepare for a huge Grandpa Simon birthday celebration at the nursing home. It was a crowded party with lots of noise and food.
During a quiet moment ,I announced that it was now Dad’s _25___to listen to some stories for a _26___change.I wanted everyone to tell Grandpa Simon _27___we loved about him .The room because _28___,abd even Dad was quiet as his family crowded around him. One after _29___another ,people told stories from their hearts ,while Dad listened with _30___.people _31___recalled all kinds of lost memories----stories about _32___when they were little, stories about when Dad was young ,stories that are shared family treasures .The stories _33___. Each one seemed to trigger the memory of two more. _34___the littlest grandchildren couldn’t wait to tell Dad why they loved him. For a man who had been kind to so many hundreds of people in his life, here was our _35___ to celebrate him.
A few months later, at Dad’s memorial _36___, we more fully realized what we had given Dad that night. Those were the stories people_37___tell at a burial service, after a loved one is no longer around to hear the words. They are told, then, full of tears, with the _38___that the person who passed away will somehow hear the outpouring of love. But we had given those loving memories to Dad in life, told _39___laughter, with hugs and joy. He had _40___to hold and roll over in his mind during his last months and days.
