第一节 完形填空（共20 小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　I was facing a decision. While delivering laundry (洗好的衣服) into the ___1___ bedrooms, I came across my thirteen-year-old sister's diary, suffused (弥漫) with ___2___. What was I to do?

　　I had always been ___3___ of my little sister. Her charming smile, endearing personality and many talents ___4___ my place as leading lady. I competed with her secretly and grew to hate her natural abilities. ___5___, we seldom spoke. I sought opportunities to ___6___ her. Her diary lay at my feet, and I didn't think of the ___7___ of opening it, considering not her privacy, nor the morality of my action.

　　I took the book from the floor and opened it ___8___, looking through the pages, searching for my name, convinced that I would discover ___9___. As I read, the blood ran from my face. I felt ___10___ and sat on the floor. There was neither charge nor hate. There was a brief description of herself, her goals and her dreams followed by a short description of the person who has ___11___ her most.

　　I started to cry. I was her ___12___. She admired me for my personality, my achievements and, ironically (嘲讽地), my ___13___. She wanted to be like me. She had been watching me for years, quietly admiring my choices and actions. I stopped reading, ___14___ with the crime I had committed.

I had wasted years hating her and now I had violated her ___15___. It was I who had lost something beautiful, and it was I who would never ___16___ myself to do such a thing again. Reading the earnest words my sister had written seemed to ___17___ an icy barrier around my heart, and I longed to know her again. On that fateful afternoon, as I ___18___ the laundry and rose to my feet, I ___19___ to go to her-this time to experience instead of to judge, to ___20___ instead of to fight. After all, she was my sister.