I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid,
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I dreamed of becoming a doctor.
My mother was a
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. Through her work, she observed that
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people spent a lot more time
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than they did watch television. She
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that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and
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written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and under-line the important 小题7:
. Years later we realized her marks were only a
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My mother was a illiterate (文盲). Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be
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.
When I entered high school I was an A-student,
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not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A—student then to a B--student then to a C-student, but I didn't 小题11:
. I was cool.One night my mother came home from working her multiple jobs and I
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about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I will give you all the money I make this week by scrubbing floors and
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bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all that you want." I was very
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with that arrangement but
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I got through allocating (分配) money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a
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over our heads and any kind of food on the table, much less to buy clothes. I also
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that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success
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intellectual preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A—student
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, and eventually I fulfilled my dream and I became a
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.
小题22: | A.woman servant | B.teacher | C.scientist | D.nurse |
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小题23: | A.healthy | B.successful | C.powerful | D.clever |
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小题24: | A.searching | B.reading | C.working | D.training |
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小题25: | A.ordered | B.insisted | C.suggested | D.announced |
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小题26: | A.hand in | B.turn over | C.pick up | D.cut down |
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小题27: | A.titles | B.magazines | C.books | D.parts |
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小题28: | A.game | B.trick | C.pleasure | D.task |
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小题29: | A.anybody | B.nobody | C.somebody | D.everybody |
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小题32: | A.thought | B.chatted | C.complained | D.worried |
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小题33: | A.repairing | B.cleaning | C.rubbing | D.watching |
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小题34: | A.encouraged | B.puzzled | C.moved | D.pleased |
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小题35: | A.now that | B.if | C.when | D.since |
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小题36: | A.wall | B.house | C.window | D.roof |
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小题37: | A.realized | B.imagined | C.believed | D.noticed |
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小题38: | A.suited | B.required | C.made | D.matched |
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小题39: | A.even | B.forever | C.before | D.again |
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小题40: | A.professor | B.expert | C.doctor | D.boss |
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