1 . My 70-year-old mother was fighting an 18-year battle with cancer. It was a battle I knew she would someday______.Maybe soon. And it______my heart to think about that.
Mom and I had a good relationship, but we just weren’t______in the way I was with my daughter. Mom and I never______or said “I love you” like I often do with my daughter. Sometimes I felt______about Mom’s love for me. Then the pandemic hit. Our city was in lockdown to______the possible infection(感染). Therefore, I didn’t come to Mom’s place but made daily phone calls instead. We didn’t say too much, but we knew we cared about each other. “ I’ve set about quilting(缝被子), and I’ll make one for you,” my mother announced______over the phone one day. I tried to ______her suggestion as it was too tiring for her, but she insisted.
My quilt was Mom’s last one. A month later, I got a call from Dad saying Mom was gone. A great sense of_______overwhelmed me-the pandemic took away my last chance to see Mom and show my love to her.
One day, I decided to give quilting a(n)______myself for my daughter. I carefully______the fabric(面料) I thought she would enjoy, and maybe I was still trying to make a______between Mom and myself in this way. I always thought what had______her to quilting late in life. I imagined asking her for______ on how to make the right stitches(针脚). Sometimes I’d______us sitting together in the living room watching TV together.
Finally, I got the quilt Mom______ me. I opened it and what I saw caught my______.It was exactly the same fabric I had chosen for my daughter. Yet something far more difficult to______at last became clear. Mom, in her own way, had ______ said those three beautiful words “I love you” I______ to hear.
1. A.fight | B.lose | C.join | D.accept |
2. A.opened | B.followed | C.broke | D.stopped |
3. A.close | B.lucky | C.helpful | D.positive |
4. A.met | B.cared | C.talked | D.hugged |
5. A.sensible | B.hopeless | C.unhappy | D.uncertain |
6. A.develop | B.pass | C.remind | D.prevent |
7. A.excitedly | B.bravely | C.confusedly | D.innocently |
8. A.reject | B.adopt | C.consider | D.offer |
9. A.thankfulness | B.regret | C.fearfulness | D.anxiety |
10. A.excuse | B.miss | C.look | D.try |
11. A.abandoned | B.discovered | C.chose | D.destroyed |
12. A.combination | B.connection | C.competition | D.comparison |
13. A.forced | B.warned | C.drawn | D.taught |
14. A.numbers | B.forgiveness | C.tips | D.permission |
15. A.watch | B.picture | C.spot | D.catch |
16. A.afforded | B.lent | C.bought | D.left |
17. A.imagination | B.attention | C.coat | D.foot |
18. A.understand | B.admit | C.remember | D.change |
19. A.unwillingly | B.sadly | C.silently | D.easily |
20. A.longed | B.hesitated | C.worried | D.applied |