2 . It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do .But that Sunday in 2008 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I tended to think of my shortcomings —how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children , and how many things I couldn’t
_______ my waitress’ salary to buy .
But what
_______ kids I had! They were
_______ impolite enough to complain.
As I walked into the kitchen quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase
_______ a dozen red roses! But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly
_______ of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It
_______: …She took a day off from her busy
_______ to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5hours just to get there, and on their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was
_______ his hero. After the game, she stayed with the little boy to get his hero’s signature until one o'clock in the morning …
It took me long enough to _______ it, but I finally know who the ________ hero is. Mom, I love you!And suddenly, it was a happy Mother’s Day, after all.
1. A.stress | B.spend | C.strengthen | D.spare |
2. A.great | B.poor | C.faithful | D.pretty |
3. A.merely | B.usually | C.never | D.often |
4. A.including | B.containing | C.possessing | D.pinning |
5. A.scratch | B.description | C.tone | D.handwriting |
6. A.read | B.recorded | C.memorized | D.wrote |
7. A.event | B.content | C.schedule | D.circumstance |
8. A.impressed | B.presented | C.printed | D.pressed |
9. A.see | B.tell | C.feed | D.realize |
10. A.actual | B.true | C.imaginary | D.visual |