Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years. She would
____down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started
____me--her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt very rough
____my young skin. Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that any more--your hands are too rough!” she made no
____and left quietly. But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her
____With the passing years, my
____returned to that night time after time. By then I
____my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss. Sometimes the incident seemed very
____, sometimes far away, but always it was
____in the back of my mind.
The years have passed, and I’m not a little girl any more. Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once
____to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.
Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives
____ One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself
____to her house to spend the night with her. As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to
____ the hair from my forehead. Then a
____, ever so gently, touched my forehead. I burst into tears.
In my memory, thousands of times, I
____the night my young voice complained. Catching Mom’s hand in hand, I told her how
____I was for that night. I thought she’d remember that. But Mom didn’t know
____I was talking about. She had already forgotten and
____long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new
____for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt(罪恶感) that I had carried around for so long was
____to be found.
1. 2. A.astonishing | B.delighting | C.annoying | D.exciting |
3. A.between | B.above | C.against | D.aside |
4. A.reply | B.promise | C.request | D.agreement |
5. A.pity | B.love | C.sadness | D.apology |
6. A.sightings | B.opinions | C.souls | D.thoughts |
7. A.missed | B.forgot | C.held | D.shook |
8. A.strange | B.close | C.serious | D.common |
9. A.stressed | B.changed | C.hidden | D.exposed |
10. A.touched | B.thought | C.reminded | D.admired |
11. 12. A.drawn | B.carried | C.grown | D.stayed |
13. 14. A.tear | B.kiss | C.press | D.hand |
15. A.returned | B.recognized | C.realized | D.recalled |
16. A.sorry | B.happy | C.angry | D.nervous |
17. 18. A.disappeared | B.apologized | C.forgiven | D.abandoned |
19. A.imagination | B.inspiration | C.decoration | D.appreciation |
20. A.still | B.soon | C.nowhere | D.anyhow |