【推荐2】I wrote my first poem at the age of seven and showed it to my mother．She read and cried, “Buddy, you really wrote a beautiful poem!”
Shyly but
____ , I said yes．She poured out her
____ “It was nothing short of talent!”
“What time will Father be home?” I asked．I could hardly wait to
____ my work to him．I spent quite some time
____ for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting, drew a fancy border around it and
____ I placed it right on my father’s plate on the dining table. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. I was sure he would be able to
____ my poem.
At almost 7 o'clock my father burst in. He seemed
____ He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees.
Suddenly he paused and glared at his plate. “What is this?” He was reaching for my poem.
“Ben, Buddy has written his first poem!” my mother began. “And it’s beautiful, absolutely amaz…”
“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide for myself.” Father said.
I
____ my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of
____“I think it’s terrible,” he said.
I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting
____“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs
____ ”
“I don’t know why.” My father held his ground. “Isn’t there enough awful poetry in the world already?”
I couldn’t
____ it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I
____ myself on the bed and cried the worst of the
____ out of me.
That may have been the end of the story, but not of its
____ for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s
____ ”
Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all
____ flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that
____ , “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”
Those
____ voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of
____ and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course．
1. | A．typically | B．proudly | C．anxiously | D．honestly |
2. | A．motivation | B．shock | C．Criticism | D．praise |
3. | A．recite | B．describe | C．show | D．introduce |
4. | A．waiting | B．preparing | C．Praying | D．planning |
5. | A．gradually | B．desperately | C．confidently | D．casually |
6. | A．appreciate | B．revise | C．read | D．polish |
7. | A．relaxed | B．calm | C．noble | D．upset |
8. | A．shook | B．lowered | C．raised | D．turned |
9. | A．decision | B．excitement | C．meditation | D．devotion |
10. | A．dark | B．wide | C．wet | D．bright |
11. | A．arrangement | B．judgment | C．encouragement | D．adjustment |
12. | A．hold | B．attain | C．control | D．stand |
13. | A．threw | B．seated | C．left | D．kept |
14. | A．confusion | B．pressure | C．disappointment | D．tiredness |
15. | A．challenge | B．development | C．difficulty | D．significance |
16. | A．elegant | B．awful | C．fluent | D．controversial |
17. | A．failure | B．creation | C．limit | D．improvement |
18. | A．orders | B．misleads | C．cautions | D．foresees |
19. | A．inspiring | B．warning | C．disturbing | D．conflicting |
20. | A．confirmation | B．restriction | C．distrust | D．Disapproval |
