单选题 .  When people show their homes to others, they proudly show off the different rooms, the nice furniture, and how well built the house is. But they     1    talk about the builders who worked so hard to make that house     2    it is today.
    When parents talk about their     3    children, about their jobs, their social and economic status and their degrees, parents never talk about the teachers who     4    those kids what they are today.
    Being a     5    of English for more than five years, I have learned one thing: if I am     6    today, it owes to the work of all my former teachers who have     7    me how to love the ABCs.
    Being a good teacher today     8    being very faithful     9    the boat of all the teachers who have motivated me and pushed my life memory within the ocean of life, through its     10    and storms, even when it occasionally got     11    in the sand of a shore.
    My teachers, both good and bad, have     12    a lot of good things to me, to my mind and to my heart. Today it is     13    to remember all those bad teachers and     14    how strict they were. But it is better not to forget that I do not have to be like them.
    Today, thinking and remembering all the good teachers     15    have taught me makes me feel the     16    responsibility I should take like them and become     17    than them, because I want my students to see me     18    a model in the future.
    Parents     19    need to remember that if their children are successful today, that is because their personality skyscraper is built upon the     20    of teachers.1. 
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点] 逻辑推理题
根据句中的But可知,But后面的内容与前面的内容形成转折,所以此处应用一个否定副词never。同时也可根据第二段中的never得出答案。故选D。