The young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father said in a loving tone, "My dear son, I am so proud of you. But I hope you can remember: never spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Sometimes we don't realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect 'the packaging' to be different. What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened." The young man was inattentive (不注意的) to his father's words and responded impatiently. "OK, I know. Now, where is my gift? Dad." His father handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name carved in gold. Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money, you give me a Bible?" He then stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful wife and a lovely son, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take charge.
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When the young man arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.
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The young man came into his father's private study again and he began to...
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要点：
1. 在题目空格处填入你要描述的对象，如 mother，teacher，friend 等等；
2. 在生活或者学习中，他（她）是如何陪伴你的？对你的成长有何帮助？你的感触是什么？
要求：
1. 文中不得出现自己的真实姓名和班级名称；
2. 词数 100 词左右。
My________ is always with me
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I frequently joke that my family heirlooms (传家宝)are plastic. My parents grew up poor and over the years, as a family we were comfortable but didn’t have a lot of things which would be considered luxuries: jewelry, family vacations, china, fancy cars, etc. My father went on a trip to Italy with my aunts one year and brought my mother a ring. It was her favorite stone. She valued that ring because it was one of the nicest things she ever had and represented my dad’s love for her. Sometimes they quarreled but had a deep love for each other. He died in 1980, aged 53 after a difficult battle with cancer.
She had lost some weight and wore the ring to work on a different finger. During her shift the ring slipped off and she realized it the following day. She was sick about it after having tried to find it with no luck. At the point when I talked to her she was trying to face the fact that she would never see it again. Her voice sounded hollow and weak which I assumed was due to the nature of the conversation. She choked back some tears.
I decided to look for the ring at my mom’s work. She was working at the Burlington Coat Factory Department store at the time in the Youth Dept. The Youth Dept was huge and packed with clothes, toys and tables. It was always a mess even when someone was working in it. I started row by row crawling (爬行) on the floor to see if I could find the ring under all the clothes. As I worked my way through the Youth Dept, I tried not to panic. I was amazed that no one asked me what I was doing. At that time I encountered one of my mom’s co-workers who didn’t understand English very well and tried to explain what I was doing. She didn’t seem to understand but she didn’t try to stop me either.
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When I got to the last row, I still didn’t find the ring.
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That ring meant so much to my mom, so I never gave up.
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My day began in a terrible way when I saw my six-year-old struggling with a limb of my azalea(杜鹃花)bush. By the time I got outside, he’d broken it. “Can I take this to school today?” he asked. With a wave of my hand, I sent him off. I turned my back so he wouldn’t see the tears gathering in my eyes.
I had been angry with my husband. The washing machine had leaked, leaving the floor in a mess. If only he had just taken the time to fix it the night before when I asked him instead of playing checkers(跳棋). “Does he still love me?” I wondered, mopping up the mess. Why did I feel anger?
I spent most of the day washing and drying clothes and thinking how love had disappeared from my life. As I finished hanging up the last of my husband’s shirts, I looked at the clock. 2:30. I was late. Jonathan’s class let out at 2:15. So I hurriedly drove to the school.
I was out of breath by the time I knocked on the teacher’s door. She walked through the door and took me aside. “I want to talk to you about Jonathan,” she said.
What? I prepared myself for the worst. Nothing would have surprised me. “Did you know Jonathan brought flowers to school today?” she asked. I nodded, thinking about my favorite bush and trying to hide the hurt in my eyes. “Let me tell you about her yesterday,” the teacher insisted. “See that little girl?” I watched the bright-eyed child laugh and nodded.
“Well, her mother and father are going through a divorce. Yesterday, she told me she didn’t want to live, but that she wished she could die. I watched that little girl bury her face in her hands and say loud enough for the class to hear, ‘Nobody loves me.’ I did all I could to comfort her, but it only seemed to make matters worse.” “I thought you wanted to talk to me about Jonathan,” I said.
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“I do,” she said, touching the sleeve of my blouse.
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Later that evening, I began pulling weeds from around my azalea bush.
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In the fall of 2013, I was in fourth grade and my brother Mitch was in second. When many students had puppies, of course we wanted one too!
“Mom, can we get a puppy?” I begged her.
“Well,” she said, “They’re a lot of work, so maybe when you are older.”
“But I’m already ten. I’m old enough to look after a puppy,” I said confidently.
“Yes, we should get a dog!” Echoed Mitch. “Everyone else at school has a puppy,” he exaggerate (夸张). Then mom had to repeat what she had just said: we could get a dog when we were a little bit older. Both Mitch and I were disappointed.
The next day, before getting ready for school, we ran into the kitchen, where mom was preparing breakfast, and packing our lunches for school. In one voice, Mitch and I said, “We are a little bit older. Can we get a dog now?” Mom smiled and said, “We will talk about it tonight with your dad, now go get dressed!” We ran quickly into our room and got ready for school, anxious to get the day over so we could talk about the puppy we were going to get.
That afternoon, as soon as Mitch and I got home from school, we asked mom once more when we could talk about getting a puppy. Mom reminded us, “We’ll talk about it when your dad gets home from work, okay?” “Okay,” we both said and Mitch followed by asking, “When will dad be home?” Mom told us that dad would be home at about 7 o'clock and that we could talk to him after we got our homework done and all ready for supper.
7 o'clock came super slow. And it was not until 7:05 that I heard the key turn and the door open. I jumped up from the chair, and raced to greet dad at the door.
“Dad!” I exclaimed, “Come on, come to the table so we can decide if we can get a puppy!”
“Okay,” dad said as he came into the kitchen and sat down at the table. Then Mitch and I brought out all the reasons we could think of to persuade dad to be on our side. .
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Finally our parents agreed that if we could go thirty days on best behavior, we could get a puppy.
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One afternoon, we returned from school to find a little dog running in the yard.
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Unlike most U.S national parks, Everglades national park, located in south Florida, was created to protect a fragile ecosystem(生态系统)instead of safeguarding a unique geographic feature. It is a heaven for a wide range of wildlife, such as turtles, snakes, lizards, the Grass frog, Wading birds and so on, among which are fierce American alligators(鳄鱼). It is said that some of the alligators often appear in the areas where people live, causing much damage.
A terrible incident happened on a hot summer day. It was so hot a day that nearly every one felt like jumping into the cool water. A little boy simply couldn’t put up with the heat, deciding to go fora swim in the old swimming hole behind his house.
“Mum, it being so hot, I want to have a swim.” the boy told his mother while walking out.
“No, Honey, there has been a warning that an alligator from the park has appeared in the surrounding area. It is dangerous!” said his mother in a loud voice. But the little boy rushed out of the back door like a gust of wind before his mother could stop him.
He was in such a hurry to dive into the cool water that he left behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he left.
He flew into the water and enjoyed the comfortable feeling that the cool water brought him, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator was swimming toward him. His mother was preparing dinner in the kitchen when suddenly she caught the two getting closer and closer to each other as she was looking out of the window. “Oh, My God!” she couldn’t help crying loudly, getting into a great panic. And then in great fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could all the way, “Alligator, Alligator!”
Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. However, it was too late. Something horrible was happening.
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Just as he approached her, the alligator reached him.
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Remarkably, after weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived.
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Like millions of parents, we all hope that our children can be both physically and mentally healthy. We want them to study hard to achieve what the whole society is struggling for. We want them to obey what it thought to be right. However, what is really going on in the teenager’s mind is always confusing, which will always challenge your bottom line.
When my son was a little boy? I was once a very happy mother. He was adorable, willing to do anything I asked him to do. He was smart, always finishing the task ahead of schedule. He was kind, attending to me when I wasn’t feeling myself. I felt how lucky I was to be his mother. To tell the truth, I didn’t expect parenting a teenager to be this hard.
However, everything changed when he entered the middle school. We seemed to become totally strangers. In the recent days, my son and I battled every corner. About schoolwork. About his attitude. About his friends. About screen time. So on and so much. It seemed as if everything I had said was just met with an eye roll or “why”. I didn’t know whether it was so-called “the eye-roll stage”.
On a recent drive home, after picking up my son from school, we went for a grocery pickup. As soon as the food was put into the grocery cart, he grabbed from the shelf a box of snack cakes, a processed food I’d allowed. As he stuffed yellow cakes and frosted coating into his mouth, I couldn’t help wondering if this decision would come back to punish me with a teenage stomachache later in the evening.
But before we had even exited the parking lot, he asked me to pull over. I just wanted to get it done quickly. But then my son surprised me.
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
“Can I share something with the homeless man, Mum?” He asked.
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On our way home, we frankly discussed how hard it must be for the homeless people.
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