Night after night, she came to tuck me in (给…掖被子), even long after my childhood years. Following her long-standing custom, she’d
and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started
me----her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me,
they felt work-worn and rough against my young skin.
, one night, I shouted at her, “Don’t do that anymore ----your hands are too
!” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother close out my day with that
expression of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my thoughts
to that night. By then I missed my mother’s
, missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the incident
very close, sometimes far away. But always it existed in the back of my
.
Well, many years have passed, but mother’s rough hands are still doing things for me and my family. She’s been our doctor,
into a medicine cupboard for the medicine to
us children of our pain. She makes the best food in the world and always keeps our clothes clean.
Now, my own children are grown and gone. Mom no longer has Dad, and on special
, I find myself drawn next door to spend the night with her. So it was late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand
ran across my face to brush the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so gently,
my forehead.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I
the night my young voice
, “Don't’ do that anymore----your hands are too rough!”
Mom’s hand in my hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten ---and
---long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the
that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
| 小题1: | | A．set down | B．put down | C．lie down | D．lean down |
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| 小题2: | | A．inspiring | B．annoying | C．boring | D．upsetting |
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| 小题3: | | A．for | B．although | C．so | D．while |
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| 小题4: | | A．Gradually | B．Certainly | C．Finally | D．Absolutely |
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| 小题5: | | A．rough | B．tough | C．smelly | D．dirty |
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| 小题6: | | A．unexpected | B．strange | C．familiar | D．ridiculous |
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| 小题7: | | A．dashed | B．returned | C．wandered | D．ran |
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| 小题8: | | A．kiss | B．expression | C．hands | D．hair |
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| 小题9: | | A．happened | B．turned | C．felt | D．seemed |
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| 小题10: | | A．mind | B．world | C．record | D．history |
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| 小题11: | | A．sliding | B．reaching | C．touching | D．dipping |
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| 小题12: | | A．operate | B．rid | C．charge | D．prevent |
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| 小题13: | | A．situations | B．conditions | C．positions | D．occasions |
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| 小题14: | | A．quickly | B．unwillingly | C．hesitantly | D．roughly |
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| 小题15: | | A．pressed | B．struck | C．dropped | D．touched |
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| 小题16: | | A．recalled | B．regained | C．repeated | D．reminded |
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| 小题17: | | A．complained | B．laughed | C．criticized | D．whispered |
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| 小题18: | | A．Conducting | B．Commanding | C．Controlling | D．Catching |
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| 小题19: | | A．ignored | B．abandoned | C．forgiven | D．forbidden |
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| 小题20: | | A．guilt | B．shame | C．pity | D．sorrow |
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