完形填空 Valentine's Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life.Over the years I fondly (天真地) thought__ 1 __him as my 'Valentine man'. My first recollection of the__ 2 __he could bring to Valentine's Day came when I was six.That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a giftwrapped package at my chair.The card was__ 3 __'Love, Dad' and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to__ 4 __my birthstone,a ruby (红宝石)。There is__ 5 __difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six,and I remember__ 6 __that ring with pride that all the cards in the world__ 7 __not surpass (超越). __ 8 __I grew older,the gifts gave__ 9 __to heartshaped boxes filled with my__ 10 __chocolate and always included a__ 11 __card signed 'Love,Dad'.In those years my thankyou became__ 12 __of a perfunctory (敷衍) response.The cards seemed less__ 13 __,and I took for granted that the Valentine would__ 14 __be there.I had__ 15 __my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from 'significant others' and 'Love, Dad' just didn't seem quite__ 16 __. His final card remains on my desk today.It's a__ 17 __of how special fathers can be and how important it has been to me over the years to know that I had a father who continued a__ 18 __of love with simple acts of understanding and an ability to express happiness over the people in his life. Those things never__ 19 __,nor does the memory of a man who never__ 20 __being my valentine. ( )1. A.of ( )2.A.memory ( )3.A.read ( )4.A.recover ( )5.A.much ( )6.A.having ( )7.A.could ( )8. A.Because ( )9.A.room ( )10.A.favorite ( )11.A.usual ( )12.A.less ( )13.A.important ( )14.A.surely ( )15.A.let ( )16.A.suitable ( )17.A.signal ( )18.A.tradition ( )19.A.lose ( )20.A.thought B.about B.magic B.written B.resemble B.little B.owning B.did B.Since B.way B.lovely B.common B.little B.beautiful B.always B.kept B.enough B.certificate B.hobby B.die B.wanted C.up C.puzzle C.shown C.represent C.great C.we aring C.must C.When C.honour C.dear C.strange C.more C.familiar C.regularly C.placed C.effective C.consequence C.habit C.miss C.tried D.over D.present D.signed D.replace D.less D.watching D.should D.As D.seat D.precious D.special D.much D.standard D.often D.remembered D.sacred D.reminder D.custom D.appear D.stopped