文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文。文章介绍了作者佩里和她的母亲谢尔，以及她们母女之间几十年的经历。两人虽然在很多方面有许多共同之处，但是她们的成长环境和基本性格等方面却又存在着差异。文章通过她们的交流，阐述了母女之间的情感、成长、工作等方面的经历和故事，最终表达了母女之间的特殊情谊。
1 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A．differences B．privileged C．exploring D．account E．amazement
F．research G．strongly H．unthinkable I．separately J．recognize K．education |
Perri Klass and her mother, Sheil a Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal co-writers as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful ways their lives have overlapped（重叠）.
Perri notes with 1 how closely her own life has mirrored her mother’s: both have fulltime careers; both have published books, articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love to read. They also love to travel ---- in fact, they often take trips together. But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more they acknowledge their big 2 in circumstance and basic nature.
A child of the Depression（大萧条）, Sheil a was raised in Brooklyn by parents who considered 3 a luxury for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she’s ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up 4 in the New Jersey suburbs of the1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is 5 while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at trying to persuade her mother into enjoying even the tiniest thing she likes.
Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheil a take turns 6 the joys and pains, the love and bitterness, the minor troubles and lasting respect that have always bonded them together. Sheil a describes the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing 7 fieldwork. Perri admits that she can’t sort out all the mess in the households, even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, admit long-hidden sorrows, and enjoy precious memories.
Looking deep into the lives they have lived 8 and together, Perri and Sheil a tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, enthusiasm, and admiration for each other. A written 9 in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet（二重奏） that produces a deep, strong sound with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will 10 .
