Every night, my mother would come to my room, lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don't remember when it first started
26 me --her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did make me annoyed, for they felt work - worn and
27 against my young skin.Finally, one night, I shouted at her: “Don' t do that any more --your
28 are too rough!" She didn’t say anything in
29 .But never again did my mother close out my day with that _
30 expression of her love.
Time after time, with the
31 years, my thoughts returned to that night. I'm not a little girl any more.Mom is in her mid - seventies, and those hands I
32 thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my
33 .
Now, my own children are
34 Mom no longer has Dad.It was late on that Thanksgiving Eve, as I went to sleep in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand
35 before stealing across my face to brush the
36 from my forehead.Then a kiss, ever so
_37 touched my brow.In my
38 , thousands of times, I
39 the night my young voice complained.
40 Mom's hand in my hand, I said how
41 I was for that night.I thought she'd remember, as I did,
_42 Mom didn't know what I was talking about.She had forgotten—and
43 —long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new
44 for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the
45 I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
小题1: | A.surprising | B.hurting | C.annoying | D.amazing |
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小题2: | A.rough | B.gentle | C.smooth | D.strong |
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小题3: | A.noises | B.words | C.feelings | D.hands |
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小题4: | A.anger | B.silence | C.reply | D.fear |
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小题5: | A.healthy | B.familiar | C.popular | D.perfect |
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小题6: | A.coming | B.remaining | C.following | D.passing |
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小题7: | A.often | B.even | C.never | D.once |
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小题8: | A.family | B.neighbor | C.husband | D.home |
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小题9: | A.developed | B.grown | C.moved | D.forgotten |
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小题10: | A.imagined | B.hesitated | C.regretted | D.trembled |
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小题11: | A.hair | B.tears | C.dirt | D.kisses |
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小题12: | A.quickly | B.roughly | C.gently | D.slowly |
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小题13: | A.memory | B.opinion | C.history | D.diary |
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小题14: | A.chanced | B.missed | C.hated | D.recalled |
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小题15: | A.Beating | B.Picking | C.Catching | D.Stopping |
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小题16: | A.happy | B.sorry | C.annoyed | D.amused |
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小题17: | A.and | B.faded | C.because | D.but |
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小题18: | A.remembered | B.while | C.forgiven | D.apologized |
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小题19: | A.hope | B.appreciation | C.thought | D.approval |
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小题20: | A.guilt | B.pride | C.sorrow | D.failure |
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