My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an
_. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market（跳蚤市场）. She collected little weeds and such to sell anything for the
we needed, she was such an embarrassment. I remember that it was field day(户外活动日) during elementary school, and my mom came. I was so
. How could she do this to me? I threw her a
look and ran out. The next day at school, “Your mom only has one eye?" they
me.
I wished that my mom would just
from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock(笑柄). Why don't you just die?" My mom did not
. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt
to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time.
Maybe it was because my mom hadn't
me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.
That night I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was
there, so
, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned
. Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching （夹痛）at me in the corner of my
. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become
, because I hated my one-eyed mom and our
poverty.
Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got admitted to the Seoul University with all the
I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't
me of my mom.
This
was getting bigger and bigger, when someone
came to see me. "What? Who's this?" It was my mother still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little daughter ran away,
of my mom's eye.
| 小题1: | | A．shame | B．delight | C．embarrassment | D．advised |
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| 小题2: | | A．food | B．house | C．book | D．money |
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| 小题3: | | A．proud | B．embarrassed | C．shy | D．frighted |
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| 小题4: | | A．kindly | B．disappointed | C．hateful | D．loving |
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| 小题5: | | A．teased | B．asked | C．scold | D．blame |
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| 小题6: | | A．leave | B．travel | C．escape | D．disappear |
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| 小题7: | | A．speak | B．response | C．object | D．forgive |
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| 小题8: | | A．good | B．sad | C．regreful | D．ashamed |
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| 小题9: | | A．cherished | B．loved | C．punished | D．valued |
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| 小题10: | | A．laughing | B．drinking | C．cooking | D．weeping |
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| 小题11: | | A．loudly | B．quietly | C．carefully | D．sadly |
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| 小题13: | | A．mind | B．face | C．heart | D．room |
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| 小题14: | | A．strong | B．confident | C．healthy | D．successful |
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| 小题15: | | A．desperate | B．considerate | C．compared | D．consistant |
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| 小题16: | | A．indepedence | B．honours | C．experience | D．misery |
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| 小题17: | | A．warn | B．remember | C．remind | D．inform |
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| 小题18: | | A．confidence | B．heart | C．dream | D．happiness |
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| 小题19: | | A．unexpected | B．special | C．strange | D．similar |
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| 小题20: | | A．tired | B．scared | C．glad | D．curious |
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