1. (2022高三上·涟水月考) 阅读下面短文，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。

"I knew when I saw you, I wanted to take you home," my dad says to me when I visit him one Saturday. There is a deep-seated 1 of a father seeing his daughter when she was born.

My father has Alzheimer's (老人痴呆症). He does not 2 express in words, so the sudden accuracy of his words 3 me.

Another Saturday, he points to a photo of me and says, "She's smart." Does he know the 4 person, 30 years older, is sitting beside him? It does not matter. At that moment I can feel his 5.

Now I bring a spoonful of yogurt to his lips. With a 6 hand, he touches me and says, "You're very good. Thank you. " He totally forgets it was he that 7 me in lifting a spoon to my mouth.

These words are all he can give now. But they make me understand more 8 my generous father.

His door was always 9. Drop-in visitors were welcomed with a drink. He would not 10 to give money to a family member in need. In the community, he 11 his time to preserve the historical buildings.

Time, advice, money. There were many ways he 12.

And he gives, still. The 13 has taken much from my father. What's 14 are his words. It's 15 for him to find the right word and say it out loud. Yet he keeps going.