When I was a child,I lived with my mother,my father having been away to work in
the town. I was then not___11___nine years old,lonely and expectant, ___12___for
things which I knew little about. I walked out alone one morning along the mountain
tops___13___ my home stood. The sun had not yet risen,and the air
___14___rain of the night and the mountain grass was heavy___15___tiny drops of
water. As I looked back,I could see the marks my feet____16____on the long grassy
slope behind me. I walked till I came to a place____17___a little stream ran into
the deep valley below. Here it passed between soft,____18____banks;at one place a
large slice of earth had fallen away from the bank on the other side,and it had made
a little island a few feet wide with water____19____all round it. It was covered
with a weed with yellow flowers and long waving grasses. I sat down on the
bank____20____a short pine tree. All the plants on the island were dark with the
heavy raindrops of the night,and the sun had not yet risen.
【題組】11. (A). yet
(B). however
(C). but
(D). Nevertheless