II. 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1.5分，共22.5分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My mother looks just like many grandmothers—short and white-haired. She comes from an old, traditional family in Canada, where she now still lives. She was a civil servant. In short, she didn’t do 16 things.
That all changed a few years ago. She began to 17 me with what she described as “independence”. At that time, Ididn’t fully understand what she was doing.
In early 2015, the year she turned 75, she informed me she’d 18 a seven-night trip to Turkey, and that she was going alone. There was no way I could that. A little old lady not speaking a word of Turkish, with no 20 of the laws and customs of the land—it was impossible!
My mother paid no attention to me.Off she went. When she returned, she told us it had been a wonderful success. As it 21 , she had barely spent any time alone, after 22 a taxi driver to show her around. He introduced her to a rug vendor (地毯商)—Mustafa, “a lovely fellow”, and she bought some rugs. The vendor had taken her address details and promised to 23 them to Canada.
I couldn’t believe her naivety (幼稚) and explained that she had been 24 . The vendor had her money. She neither had nor would be receiving any rugs.
Well, I was 25 .
To my great shock, her rugs did arrive some weeks later, along with a lovely note from Mustafa. To my even greater surprise, the following year Mustafa himself arrived in Canada.
“I invited him for a cup of tea and he came,” my mother told me. I was because she hardly knew this man! But again, she paid little attention to me,telling me to stop being silly.
I wondered: “Is she not thinking straight?” 27 I worried about her, Mum was thinking straighter than most of us.
Her 28 seemed to be based on a realization that life needs to be lived, when there’s relatively little of it left. It 29 me of the line “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
I don’t think Mum knows what her next big “thing” is going to be. But I am sure, she is open to any 30 , which is something we all probably need right now. Live life to the fullest.
16. A. complex B. crazy C. boring D. rude
17. A. surprise B. amuse C. comfort D. attract
18. A. missed B. taken C. offered D. booked
19. A. allow B. demand C. remember D. cancel
20. A. intention B. knowledge C. view D. fear
21. A. turned out B. came true C. made sense D. went ahead
22. A. training B. leading C. hiring D. refusing
23. A. invite B. sell C. switch D. ship
24. A. dominated B. ignored C. cheated D. abandoned
25. A. right B. lucky C. serious D. wrong
26. A. frightened B. depressed C. disappointed D. ashamed
27. A. If B. Since C. While D. Once
28. A. promotion B. interaction C. independence D. preference
29. A. cured B. warned C. informed D. reminded
30. A. pleasure B. adventure C. freedom D. beauty
