iii. 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～50各题所给的a、b、c和d项中，选出最佳选项。 i’ve loved my mother’s desk since i was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pen, and white paper, i decided that the act of ___36___ must be the most ___37___ thing in the world. years later, during her final illness, mother ___38___ different things for my sister and brother. “but the ___39___”, she said, “is for elizabeth”. i never saw her angry, and never saw her cry. i knew she ___40___ me, she showed it in action. but as a young girl, i wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter. they never happened. and a gulf(深渊) opened between us. i was “too emotional（易激动的）”. but she was different from me. as years passed and i graduated from college, i loved my mother and i wrote to her in ___41___ words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did ___42___ me. i posted the letter and waited for her answer. none came. my hope turned to ___43___, then little interest, finally, peace --- it seemed that nothing happened. i couldn’t be sure that the ___44___ had even got to mother. i only knew that i had written it, and i could __45___ trying to make her into someone she was not. now the ___46___ of her desk tol
