1 . When I was two years old, I lost my father forever, who had a traffic accident and passed away. Three years later, my mother_________ from serious health problems, leaving me to care for her. This _________ reversed (翻转)our roles as child and caretaker. While I knew my mother was sick, I _________ that everything would be okay. _________, in 1997 everything went terribly _________, and my life changed forever.

Adoption(收养) is a(n) _________ word to a five-year-old child, but when I realized that my mother had signed me over to _________, I felt it was the ultimate betrayal(背叛). I suffered from shock, _________, and confusion as I attempted to _________ my new family. I did learn to love my new parents though I couldn't __________ my mother for betraying me. Hearing people tell me that she did it in my best interest and that she actually loved me, I felt even bitter. I firmly believed that __________ she had truly loved me she would have made it work for our little family.

However, the older I got, the more I began to understand how __________ our situation had been. We had been __________ boxes of noodles. I have started to understand the __________ she put me up for adoption, and that she really did save me.

Only recently have I begun to __________ how a mother could give her child to strangers, and I realize now what a sacrifice(牺牲) it must have been for her to let me go. She was __________, but even in her state she understood that she was pulling me down with her. She loved me __________ anything, so she wanted me to have a chance in life, one she realized she could no longer __________ me. When I look back now, I am __________ to her. Even though I hated her for a long time, I now know my life has been a special gift only because she was__________ enough to give me up.