完形填空 One day when I was five years old , my mother was washing the kitchen floor. I was telling her about a new girl at school, and she looked up at me and said, “__1___are your two best friends?” I was not __2___ what to say, “Um--- Jenny and Mary.” My mother __3___ washing the floor and asked me, “ Well, what about Kate and Cindy?” “But they’re my __4___.” “Yes, but they can __5___ be your best friends. Friends may come and __6___, but your sisters will always be there for you.” At that time I felt __7___. How could my two sisters be my closest friends? We fought all the time over toys, food, and what to __8___ on TV. How could my sisters be my best friends? They weren’t even the same age as me. We all had our own ___9__ at school. But my mother never let us _10___ that sisters are lifelong friends. Like all mothers, she wanted to give us a great gift ___11__ let us know how lucky we were. She let us play together and always punished us in the same way, too. We didn’t always __12___ well and fought just like any other sisters. Now twenty years have __13___. We realise that our mother is __14___. Today I share things with my sisters that I don’t ___15__ with anyone else.
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