A Mother’s Heartfelt Note of Love
Everything seemed to have changed for me when I entered high school. I never saw a single person I knew from middle school. At home I was just as lonely. “My brothers and sister all fit in.” I thought, coming in the door after another bad day at school. “Why can’t I?”
Mom was there waiting for me. “Karole, your bedroom’s a disaster. Why can’t you keep it clean?” The last thing I needed was criticism from my mother. What had happened to the mother who used to snuggle (依偎) with me on the sofa, loving me with complete acceptance? Who thought everything I did was wonderful? I didn’t bother trying to explain my unhappiness. It was easier to hide in my bedroom, without saying a word, like I did every afternoon.
Clearing off some space, I sat down at my desk. Yet another thing I wasn’t good at anymore. My grades had slipped along with my confidence. I turned to a new page in my notebook and started working out the first problem. Almost immediately, I saw I’d made a mistake. “Wrong again!” I thought. “You can’t do anything right!” I tore the paper out of my notebook, balled it up in my fist and threw it at the wastepaper basket. The ball landed on the floor. I heard my mother’s voice in my head, “Why can’t you keep your room clean?”
By the time I finished my homework, the floor was littered with crumpled (弄皱的) paper. It gave me a kind of satisfaction to see the mess I’d made. Like it was proof of all my shortcomings. Every time I looked at those crumpled balls, I reminded myself what a failure I was. But my unhappiness stayed hidden away, just like those mistakes. With my face a mask of indifference, no one knew what I was really feeling. Who would want to listen?
One day, I came home to an empty house. It was a relief not to be met with Mom’s latest complaint. “Nothing I do is right in her eyes.” I thought. “Or anyone else’s, including mine.”
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When I opened my bedroom door, I froze at the sight of a neat and orderly room.
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Six hundred anxious parents and relatives sat in the school hall waiting for the talent show to begin. Jane sat alone in the crowd. It seemed everything she did lately, she did alone. Over the past several years the unexpected downward spirals (逐渐下滑) had destroyed her marriage and seriously threatened her financial situation, leaving her exhausted and hopeless. She worried how she was going to provide a future for herself and her eight-year-old daughter, Renee.
Renee had one passion—to learn Irish dance. For several years, with a borrowed CD, she had taught herself a few steps and had even danced in front of both her first and second grade classes. This year, despite their situation, Jane had somehow managed to squeeze enough from her budget to pay for Renee’s dancing lessons. For four months Renee had practiced, determined to perform in this talent show.
Renee could not have been more excited or looked more beautiful than she did tonight in her borrowed Irish costume and shoes. Full of confidence, she was ready to dance! As the program moved through each performance, Jane was anxious and wondered how her little third grade daughter would respond to such a large audience. In her short eight years, Renee had never faced such a challenge.
Finally, it was Renee’s turn. Jane held her breath as the curtain rose and the spotlight piereed (穿透) through the darkness and onto her daughter looking so small and alone on the stage. The audience greeted her with polite applause and the music began.
Renee fell quickly into step with the cheerful Irish tune. Her joy was evident as she danced and spun (旋转) in circles around the stage. A few in the crowd began to clap with the music. More joined in until the entire audience, caught up in the beat, was clapping along with Renee as she danced lightly.
But wait! Jane wanted to shout. What happened?
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The music shouldn’t have stopped!
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In the silence of that hall, Renee danced on and on.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________One bright October morning, Tyler woke up and noticed that the sun was shining in her bedroom window. Everything seemed more colorful than usual. The sky was very blue, and the leaves on the big maple tree were turning yellow and red. “Jacob, wake up!” she called, “Fall is here!”
Jacob came in and smiled, “I’m already up. Mom said we could go to the pumpkin field today.” Tyler jumped out of bed and got dressed. They ate breakfast quickly and were very excited to head to the pumpkin field. Once they got there, Tyler ran over to a basket that was full of tiny, orange pumpkins. Each one could fit in her hand. “Let’s get this!” she cried. “No way,” Jacob said, “Those are much too small to carve into a good Jack-O’-Lantern(南瓜灯).”
So they kept walking into the field to search for a suitable one. They walked slowly so they wouldn’t trip (绊倒) on the vines or any of the bright orange pumpkins. “What about this one?” Jacob asked. He reached down to pick up a pumpkin. It was so big that he couldn’t even lift it off the ground. Tyler laughed, “How would we get it in the car?” They kept looking, but they could not agree on a perfect pumpkin. There was always something not quite right. Sometimes the stem was too long, or the pumpkin had a flat side.
As they were about to give up and head home, Jacob tripped over a pumpkin. Tyler caught his arm before he fell to the ground. They looked at the pumpkin together. It was not too small or too large. It was perfectly round. It had a neat, brown stem that would make a good handle when they cut a cap out of the pumpkin and hollowed(挖) it out to hold a candle. Tyler and Jacob didn’t say a word. They just smiled at each other and reached down to pick up the pumpkin. Together they carried it to the car and headed home.
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They put the pumpkin on the kitchen table.
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Mom heard the pumpkin fell to the floor and rushed into the kitchen immediately.
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1. 简述现象；
2. 分析原因（2至3个）；
3. 发表你的看法。
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Should Our Parents Accompany Us in Studying?
In recent years, many parents choose to accompany their children in studying.
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One Saturday morning when Susan went, as usual, to Thompson’s hotel, to receive the price of her mother’s washing for the guests, which amounted to five dollars, she found the hotel keeper in the yard.
He was obviously in bad manners with some dealers with whom he had been talking. He held in his hand an open wallet, full of bills. Hardly noticing the child as she made her request, except to swear (骂咧咧) at her for troubling him when he was busy, he handed her a bank note. Glad to escape so easily, Susan rushed out of the gate, and when she stopped to see the money safely in the folds of her worn scarf, she discovered that he had given her two bills instead of one. She looked around. Nobody was near to share her discovery, and her first feeling was joy at the unexpected prize.
“It is mine, all mine,” she thought. “I will buy mother a new coat with it, and she can give her old one to sister Mary, and then Mary can go to the Sunday school with me next winter. I wonder if it will buy a pair of shoes for brother Tom, too.”
At that moment she realized that the hotel keeper must have given it to her by mistake, and therefore she had no right to have it, as she was always told by her mother the Golden Rule. What belongs to you is yours, and what doesn’t belong to you should not be accepted.
But again the voice of owning it by herself whispered, “He gave it, and how do you know that he did not intend to make you a present of it? Keep it; he will never know it, even if it should be a mistake; he had too many such bills in that great wallet, so it doesn’t matter if missing one.” While this conflict was going on in her mind between good and evil, she was hurrying homeward as fast as possible.
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Yet, before she came in sight of her home, she stopped.
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The hotel keeper looked at Susan.
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Writer and philosopher Johana Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” But I was not thinking about the golden chain of kindness one day when a very old and broken-down automobile parked in front of my house. During those years, we lived in a small town just across the street from the church I served, and travelers in need constantly found their way to my house.
I was growing bored with helping the numerous people who stopped by almost every day. I was frequently awakened in the middle of an otherwise good night’s sleep to get out in the cold and help someone passing through. Once our property was damaged on purpose; once I drove through storm in order to get two people to safety; many times I felt taken for granted by penniless motorists or hitchhikers who did not thank me for the help they received and some even complained that I could have done more. I had lost my faith in the basic goodness of others for a while and, though I still offered assistance, sometimes I inwardly (内心) wished they could just go away.
But one day, a young man with a week-old beard (胡须) climbed from the broken-down car. He had no money and no food. He asked if I could give him some work and then offer him some petrol and a meal. I told him that if he wanted to work for me, he could cut the grass, but actually the work wasn’t necessary.
Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard. Because of the afternoon heat, I expected him to give up before the job was completed. But he continued and, and after a long while, he sat tiredly down in the shade. I thanked him for his work and gave him what he needed. When I offered him a little extra money for a task which was particularly well done, he didn’t accept it.
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“No, thank you,” he said in a heavily accented speech.
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He probably thought I helped him out that day. However,
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For the past three years, I had worked tirelessly as a waitress at Lester’s Cafe during weekends and vacations, saving every penny I could for my $500 tuition (学费) bill for St John’s College of Nursing. But fate (命运) had other plans in store for me. Just days after my high school graduation, my father fell ill and needed an expensive operation to recover. My family, already struggling financially, was in urgent need of funds. With a heavy heart, I offered all my savings to help cover the medical bills.
But as the days went by, panic set in. How would I pay for my tuition? No bank would lend money to an eighteen-year-old with no hope of repayment for three years, and none of my friends had that kind of money. I felt lost, unsure of what to do.
I thought of Lester, but he always put the profits back into his little cafe. Five hundred dollars was a large sum of money then. There was only one person who came to mind — Mr. Smith, the successful engineer and a regular customer at Lester’s Cafe. He came into Lester’s early every morning for breakfast. Despite having barely exchanged more than pleasantries (客套话) with him while waiting tables, he was the only person who ever tipped me in the little cafe. Would he even remember me? And wouldn’t Lester be upset if I asked his customer for a loan?
On Saturday afternoon, I took the courage to call Lester and explain my difficult situation. To my surprise, he understood and encouraged me to approach Mr. Smith for help. “Mr. Smith still eats here every morning. And he asked about you yesterday. Come here on Monday and you’re welcome to ask him. And good luck, Jeanne,” he said to me.
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So on Monday morning, I found myself standing nervously in front of Mr. Smith.
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