天津市南开区2020-2022届（三年）高三一模英语试题汇编：完形填空

天津市南开区 2020-2022届（三年）高三一模英语试题分类汇编 完形填空 天津市南开区2022届高三一模英语试卷 第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳选项，将短文内容补充完整。 It started with a dogwood (山茱英) tree. I was in Ohio when my mother died on a cold day in February, and everything was ___16___.A few weeks into my grief (悲痛), my uncle suggested planting a tree in her___17___. He had visited my parents decades before during a California spring. They drove down a neighborhood street___18___blooming (盛开的) dogwood trees and ever since, the___19___of a dogwood reminded him of my mom. We planted the dogwood in May. Its gray trunk was as thin as my mother's arms. It lay in the___20___much like her ashes (骨灰) would settle on the rocky soil of the Rocky Mountains five years later. Planting a living thing to___21___her hard life that ended too soon soothed (抚慰) my heart. This tree would be a symbol of her, something I could ___22___despite all I’d lost. My mother could make anything___23___.She possessed not just g