I made my mother cry four times.
The first was during the Primary One registration. (注册) My mother got a___21____to register me in St. Andrew's Primary. There were 50 people___22___ for some 20 places. We were all in the school hall，_23______nervously, as a man dipped his hand in a box to pull out a note and read out the__24___ on it. Each time he did that, my mother's hand would hold my hands___25___. My mother's face was filled with __26___. My name was the last to be ___27____. That was the first time 1 had ever seen her cry.
The second time was when I was__28___from the worst class to the best class. I___29____to let my mother sign my report card. She ___30___when she found that I had signed my own report card by writing my father's name.
The third time was in 1985, when my parents were___31____ to attend the celebration dinner for winners of overseas scholarship(奖学金). I had worked very hard all these years and felt that I had done it__32__ . So I told my mother that maybe she shouldn't go since she was supposed to ___33__ with the bosses and people who had been so___34___given me the chance to study abroad. She cried in her room for hours.
When I came back in 1990, I saw a woman I could hardly__35__. My mother's grey hair had gone almost all__36__, and she now walked with a bent____37__due to the years she had spent at the sewing machine. But she was still the same ___38____ mother that loved me. In 1997 she had a serious stroke（中风. Beside the bed, I told her what a____39__son I had been ，to have let her suffer____40__thanking her for what she had done, At some point, I saw a tiny__41__at the corner of her right eye. That was the last time I made my mother cry.
21. A. choice B. reason C. step D. chance
22. A. competing B. getting C. preparing D. wishing
23. A. answering B. walking C. waiting D. trying
24. A. name B. article C. news D. instruction
25. A. carefully B. seriously C. gently D. tightly
26. A. interest B. concern C. attraction D. disappointment
27. A. added B. called C. told D. found
28. A. raised B. pulled C. supported D. turned
29. A. regretted B. preferred C. refused D. failed
30. A. shouted B. apologized C. smiled D. cried
31. A. allowed B. invited C. ordered D. sent
32. A. frequently B. again C. alone D. actually
33. A. talk B. agree C. discuss D. cheer
34. A. proudly B. kindly C. calmly D. pitifully
35. A. remember B. receive C. respect D. recognize
36. A. straight B. white C. short D. dry
37. A. back B. finger C. head D. foot
38. A. busy B. real C. worried D. caring
39. A. special B. reliable C. terrible D. practical
40. A,rather than B.as well as C. along with D. instead of
41 .A. tear B. hole C. movement D. light