文章大意:本文是记叙文。本文主要叙述了 Cheryl在她妈妈去世前的一段日子里,她们母女间的相互安慰、相互关怀及依依不舍,让我感动,我觉得人间最痛苦的莫过于等待着生死离别。句意:我认为最痛苦的时刻可能是在等待着道别。
2 . Many people say their most painful moments are saying goodbye to those they love. After watching Cheryl, my daughter-in-law, through the six long months her mother suffered towards death, I think the most painful _______ can be in the waiting to say goodbye.
Cheryl made the two-hour trip over and over to be with her mother. They spent the long afternoons praying, comforting, and retelling their _______ memories.
As her mother was getting _______, Cheryl always sat for hours _______ watching her mother sleeping. Each time she kissed her mother before leaving, her mother would say in _______, “I’m sorry you drove so far and sat for so long and I didn’t even _______ up to talk with you.”
Cheryl would tell her it didn’t matter, still her mother felt _______ and apologized at each goodbye _______ the day Cheryl found a way to give her mother the same reassurance(安慰) her _______ had given to her so many times.
“Mom, do you __________ when I made the high school basketball team?” Cheryl’s mother nodded. “For every game you’d __________ so far and sit for so long and I never even left the bench to play. Each time I felt __________ and apologized to you for wasting your time.” Cheryl __________ took her mother’s hand.
“Do you remember what you would say to me?”
“I would say I didn’t come to see you __________, I came to see you.”
“And you __________ those words, didn’t you?”
“Yes, I really did.”
“Well, now I say the __________ words to you. I didn’t come to see you __________. I came to see you.”
Her mother understood and smiled as she floated back into sleep.
Their __________ together passed quietly into days, weeks, and months. To the last day they cared each other in the __________, love given and received just by seeing each other.
A love so strong that, __________ in this deepened silence that followed their last goodbye, Cheryl can still hear her mother’s love.
1. A.moments | B.business | C.consequences | D.failures |
2. A.lost | B.buried | C.shared | D.frozen |
3. A.thinner | B.stronger | C.better | D.worse |
4. A.silently | B.excitedly | C.impatiently | D.desperately |
5. A.laughter | B.tears | C.despair | D.happiness |
6. 7. A.grateful | B.sorry | C.optimistic | D.nervous |
8. A.until | B.since | C.after | D.while |
9. A.father | B.mother | C.mother-in-law | D.husband |
10. A.know | B.forget | C.remember | D.doubt |
11. 12. A.guilty | B.excited | C.silly | D.sensitive |
13. A.quickly | B.eagerly | C.curiously | D.gently |
14. A.study | B.play | C.explain | D.cry |
15. A.said | B.appreciated | C.meant | D.weighed |
16. A.useful | B.final | C.different | D.same |
17. A.talk | B.sleep | C.complain | D.weep |
18. A.mornings | B.afternoons | C.evenings | D.nights |
19. A.carefulness | B.sadness | C.kindness | D.stillness |
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