语法填空精选2
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. __16_____ (follow) her longstanding custom, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember ___17___ it first started annoying me — her hands pushing my hair that way. Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that anymore — your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say ___18____ in reply. But never again ___19_____ my mother close out my day __20_____ that familiar expression of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my __21_____ (think) returned to that night. By then I missed my mother’s hands, — missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead.
Now those hands I once thought to be so rough were still doing things for me and my family. I frequently recalled the night my young voice complained. One night, catching Mom’s hand in hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night. I thought she’d remember ___22_____ I did. But Mom didn’t know what I ___23_____ (talk) about. She had forgotten — and forgiven — long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new ___24_______ (appreciate) for my gentle mother and ___25_____ caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
[答案及解析]本文讲述母亲的双手给作者带来无私的母爱的故事。那双手已经不再温柔，甚至有些粗糙，但那双手依然给作者带来温暖，母爱永远难以割断。
16. Following。因逻辑主语she与follow是主动关系，用现在分词短语作状语，故填Following。
17. when。引导宾语从句，表示时间，用连接副词when。句意：我不记得母亲最初是什么时候开始用手拨弄我的头发了。
18. anything。母亲什么也没回答，在否定句中，用anything。
19. did。因否定词never置于句首时，要用部分倒装句，是一般过去时，填助动词did。
20. with。意思是“用她那熟悉的爱的表达方式”，表示“用”，填介词with。
21. thoughts。由形容词性物主代词my可知，该空应填名词；另外thought用复数形式，表示 “记忆，心思”。
22. as。作者认为母亲会像她自己记得那样，也记得那件事。表示“与……一样”，填连词as。
23. was talking。妈妈不知道我在谈论什么，用过去进行时，填was talking。
24. appreciation。不定冠词a后应接名词，故填appreciation。
25. her。指母亲那体贴的双手。