Directions:

　　For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

　　The death of a child, _1_ one’s own child, is something the mind can hardly comprehend. It seems to go _2_ nature. The end of a life that is still forming _3_ has just begun is an almost unthinkable cruelty.

　　But it happens. Parents sometimes must witness the illness and death of the children _4_ whom they gave birth. And _5_ will ever fill the empty place that the dead child leaves behind. Parents _6_ to die before their children, which is the natural order of life events. When the situation is reversed and a child dies _7_ the parents it seems wrong.

　　Yet we never know why one person dies and another lives. But we do know _8_ a child is gone, the parents still have a future, as grey and worthless as it may at first seem. Death may take the child, but the love never _9_.

　　The sorrow after a child’s death is one of the longest and hardest type of _10_ to live with. And it takes long to deal with the parents’ own emotions.

　　1.A. especially B. special C. especial D. most

　　2.A. with B. against C. beyond D. above

　　3.A. and B. or C. but D. so

　　4.A. at B. with C. to D. for

　　5.A. everything B. other thing C. something D. nothing

　　6.A. think B. expect C. like D. surely

　　7.A. before B. after C. in front of D. as

　　8.A. as if B. as though C. even if D. that

　　9.A. gives up B. goes away C. goes back D. goes through

　　10.A. loss B. losses C. losing D. lost

　　參考答案：1.A 2.B 3.B 4.C 5.D 6.B 7.A 8.C 9.B 10.A