文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了,作者90多岁患有痴呆症的母亲,生命快要接近尾声,作者及其家人为母亲准备了一次不同寻常的生日庆祝准备活动——一家人一起烤饼干,期间拍了很多照片,之后这些美好的记忆不仅留在了作者的脑海中,(代表快乐美好不小心散落在家中的)糖屑还不时地出现在生活中提醒着作者的美好回忆,作者感慨生活虽有很多种味道,但我们可以在旅途中选择自己对事情的态度。
1 . As the saying goes, life is sweet. But while we may wish for consistently sweet moments, life often serves us other _________.
Recently, we celebrated my mom’s birthday. In her nineties now, as she _________ the closing stages of a long and remarkable life, she struggles with dementia (痴呆), leading to her mind and body not _________ the way she would want.
The day before the celebration, we _________ to bake cookies with her great grand kids. Not just any cookies, but 60 _________ sugar cookies cut in different shapes, covered with lots of sprinkles (糖屑). Though the kids worked as carefully as they could, they made the kitchen a total mess, _________almost as many sprinkles on the floor as on the cookies. They went on for hours, rolling dough, baking, cutting shapes, and _________ with four kinds of sprinkles.
The next day, the birthday _________ was a success. We took many pictures, and the beautiful cookies were shared. In an _________ way, those sweet sprinkles have not only stuck in my mind but remained almost everywhere in our home for the past few days. In every __________, I continue to find them, in all the colors of the rainbow, four shapes and sizes, sweet, and after I __________ step on them, not so sweet.
Truly, these are bittersweet moments, filled with __________ emotions. From such moments, we unwillingly learn that much in life is __________ our control: the separations and losses, the __________ of life, the passage of time. Life serves up many flavors. __________, we can choose our attitudes on the journey.
1. A.memories | B.flavors | C.experiences | D.smells |
2. A.forgets | B.realizes | C.nears | D.questions |
3. A.functioning | B.changing | C.failing | D.growing |
4. A.decided | B.asked | C.managed | D.continued |
5. A.new-born | B.snow-covered | C.hard-won | D.home-made |
6. A.working on | B.preparing for | C.cutting off | D.resulting in |
7. A.checking | B.decorating | C.struggling | D.volunteering |
8. A.cake | B.wish | C.gift | D.party |
9. A.unexpected | B.unknown | C.undoubted | D.unlimited |
10. A.picture | B.cookie | C.room | D.house |
11. A.dangerously | B.successfully | C.emotionally | D.accidentally |
12. A.new | B.strong | C.mixed | D.negative |
13. A.within | B.through | C.beyond | D.toward |
14. A.shortness | B.meaning | C.record | D.style |
15. A.Instead | B.However | C.Meanwhile | D.Therefore |