1. (2023高三上·大庆月考)  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。

In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison hit Houston. As a result, more than 70,000 houses were 1 , including the home of Sarah Feldman and her family.

At the time, they were in Connecticut on vacation, so they didn't know what kind of 2 they were going to face when they got home to Texas. But then Feldman's grandparents called with 3 news: all of her books had been destroyed in the flooding. Feldman was 14 at the time and loved 4 .

To cheer her up, Feldman's father 5 her to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. When they arrived, she met Bill Carver, an elderly 6 .

"I asked him a bunch of questions like, ‘How do you 7 all these rare books in the library? What's the oldest book you have?'" Feldman remembers.

Carver 8 answered all of Feldman's questions. When she told him about her books being 9 , he told her that he would send her a book in the mail, so she could 10 her collection. After returning to Houston, she 11 his gift, titled "The Medieval(中世纪的) Book" by Barbara A. Shailor.

Feldman is in her 30s now. But Carver's 12 has made a lifelong impact. Feldman has tried to 13 Carver, with no success. "I actually sent the library a 14 during the pandemic(大流行病), but I never heard back," she said. "I'm not sure if he's 15 still, but I just would love to tell Bill Carver that he changed my life."