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Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′) [2016·山东多校联盟]My life was running smoothly last year when the universe delivered wake－up calls one after another. First, I __1__ my job when the magazine I edited went bankrupt (倒闭的). A month later, my __2__ landed in the intensive care unit (重症监护室). It felt as though life were __3__ my layers. Not knowing what else to do, I drove down to my parents' __4__. Their vulnerability (脆弱) terrified me. I __5__ my father at the hospital every day, trying to __6__ tears as I stood awkwardly by his bed. At home, I __7__， washed the dishes and answered the phone. One afternoon, I held my mother's hand as she wept. Suddenly, I felt __8__ to have the time to be with my parents, to __9__ them, which I wouldn't have been able to do __10__ I hadn't lost my job. I felt even more __11__ for this gift of time when my father returned home. Grateful for the __12__ things: watching TV with him, listening to his breathing while he slept. Grateful for my mother's love and care. Looking back, I__13__would have chosen the __14__ of my father's illness and losing work I loved. But my parents' vulnerability—and my own—__15__ me less these days. Gratitude opened the gates of love—right in the midst of __16__ and uncertainty. Since then, I've started making a __17__ effort to practice gratitude in some small way every day. When I do, I feel much more connected with the flow of life, __18__ alone in my own struggles and fears. | 
