文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。作者讲述了自己之前不喜欢帮妈妈做家务,后来却从一个被照顾,被宠坏的小孩成长到一个负责任的,关爱他人的年轻人,在家里的地位也提高了,每个人都其乐融融。最终作者感悟到有时候我们推迟做的时间最长的小事结果是做起来最简单的。
As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I worked hard at school, and sometimes looked after my younger sister. Still, I found myself regularly unwilling to ________ out at home with even the simplest things.
Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother ________ me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of ________. Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, ________ for my lesson, and bought me a candy bar, you’d think I’d be very ________ to help her bring the groceries into the house. But I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an arm-load and left the ________ for Mom as I ran to my room, shut the door, and started studying.
Don’t get me wrong: even back in my room, I felt ________ about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my ________. But I also realized that once I did change, there’d be no going back. Once I took on more responsibility; my parents would start ________ more of me. At age fifteen, I sensed that this one small change would ________ something much bigger: my personal change from a cared-for, spoiled (被宠坏的) child to a more ________, caring and giving young man.
I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n) ________ to jump in and see what happened. Returning home from the lesson, I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning ________. Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and headed back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day!
Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The neat thing was, the more I helped out, the better I felt about myself and my place in my family. As Mom and Dad realized they could ________ on me more, our trips became far less stressful, too. In short, it was a win-win situation for everyone.
Sometimes the little things we put off doing the longest ________ out to be the simplest things to complete. And feeling happy beats feeling guilty any day.
41. 42. A.sent | B.guided | C.walked | D.drove |
43. A.groceries | B.flowers | C.fruits | D.vegetables |
44. A.paid | B.fought | C.applied | D.planned |
45. A.nervous | B.unwilling | C.confident | D.grateful |
46. 47. A.guilty | B.curious | C.excited | D.doubtful |
48. A.shape | B.world | C.career | D.way |
49. A.warning | B.reminding | C.informing | D.expecting |
50. A.tell | B.mark | C.express | D.describe |
51. A.responsible | B.ambitious | C.outgoing | D.energetic |
52. A.excuse | B.statement | C.decision | D.appointment |
53. A.anger | B.shame | C.delight | D.pleasure |
54. A.live | B.press | C.depend | D.focus |
55. A.make | B.turn | C.point | D.bring |