We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are
36 , one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say,
37 across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)
38 memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children,
39 from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of
40 , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors
41 for 200 years.
We soon
42 by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories
43 back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the
44 where I was once so gloriously a child. It still
45 a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk
46 the rooms in memory. Here, my mother
47 in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family
48 into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being
49 them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise
50 attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I
51 ; where I belong. "
She has
52 her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human
53 To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need
54 origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the
55 of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
| 小题1: | | A．appearing | B．moving | C．exposing | D．expanding |
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| 小题2: | | A．referring | B．travelling | C．pointing | D．coming |
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| 小题3: | | A．shared | B．short | C．fresh | D．treasured |
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| 小题4: | | A．passed | B．raised | C．moved | D．sent |
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| 小题5: | | A．home | B．duty | C．reality | D．relief |
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| 小题6: | | A．built | B．lived | C．remained | D．explored |
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| 小题7: | | A．catch up | B．pull up | C．step down | D．come down |
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| 小题8: | | A．falling | B．turning | C．rushing | D．bringing |
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| 小题9: | | A．yard | B．village | C．room | D．house |
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| 小题10: | | A．adapts to | B．appeals to | C．belongs to | D．occurs to |
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| 小题11: | | A．across | B．through | C．along | D．past |
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| 小题12: | | A．lay | B．played | C．stood | D．sat |
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| 小题13: | | A．marching | B．looking | C．breaking | D．pouring |
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| 小题14: | | A．between | B．with | C．near | D．behind |
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| 小题15: | | A．wonders | B．listens | C．reacts | D．agrees |
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| 小题16: | | A．began | B．grew | C．studied | D．stayed |
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| 小题17: | | A．deepened | B．recognized | C．accepted | D．found |
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| 小题18: | | A．heart | B．rights | C．interest | D．behaviors |
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| 小题20: | | A．meaning | B．expression | C．connection | D．background |
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