第二节 完型填空阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最

第二节 完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

As far back as I can remember, the glass jar【C1】______on the floor beside the small【C2】______in my parents' room. Dad would【C3】______his pockets and put his coins into the【C4】______every day. As a small boy, I was always【C5】______to hear the sounds the coins made【C6】______they were dropped into the jar. I used to sit on the floor in front of the jar and【C7】______the copper and silver circles shining when the sun poured through the window.

When the jar was【C8】______, Dad would sit at the table in their room and count the coins.

Every time as we drove to the bank, Dad would look at me【C9】______. "Those coins are going to keep you【C10】______what I am doing at the coal mine, son. You're going to do better than me. This old coal mine town's not going to【C11】______you back. "

No matter how【C12】______things got at home, Dad【C13】______to drop his coins into the jar.【C14】______during the summer when Dad got laid off (解雇)from the coal mine and Mama had to【C15】______dried beans for dinner several times a week, no money was taken from the jar.

The years passed, and I finished college and took a job in another town. Once, while visiting my parents, I noticed that the glass jar had been【C16】______. I felt sad as I【C17】______the spot(位置) beside the table. My dad was a man of few words and never lectured me on the【C18】______of determination and faith.

The jar had【C19】______me all these values far more powerfully than the most flowery of【C20】______could have done. In my mind, it showed, more than anything else, how much my dad had loved me.

【C1】

A．existed

B．left

C．sat

D．fell