1 . Every night, my mother would come to my room, lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead．
I don't remember when it first started
____ me --her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did make me annoyed, for they felt work - worn and
____against my young skin．Finally, one night, I shouted at her: “Don' t do that any more --your
____ are too rough！” She didn’t say anything in
____．But never again did my mother close out my day with that
____ expression of her love．
Time after time, with the
____ years, my thoughts returned to that night．I'm not a little girl any more．Mom is in her mid - seventies, and those hands I
____ thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my
____Now, my own children are
____. Mom no longer has Dad. It was late on that Thanksgiving Eve, as I went to sleep in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand
____ before stealing across my face to brush the
____ from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so
____touched my brow．In my
____, thousands of times, I
____ the night my young voice complained.
____ Mom's hand in my hand, I said how
____ I was for that night. I thought she'd remember, as I did,
____ Mom didn't know what I was talking about. She had forgotten — and
____ —long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new
____ for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the
____ I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found．
1. | A．surprising | B．hurting | C．annoying | D．amazing |
2. | A．rough | B．gentle | C．smooth | D．strong |
3. | A．noises | B．words | C．feelings | D．hands |
4. | A．anger | B．silence | C．reply | D．fear |
5. | A．healthy | B．familiar | C．popular | D．perfect |
6. | A．coming | B．remaining | C．following | D．passing |
7. | A．often | B．even | C．never | D．once |
8. | A．family | B．neighbor | C．husband | D．home |
9. | A．developed | B．grown | C．moved | D．forgotten |
10. | A．imagined | B．hesitated | C．regretted | D．trembled |
11. | A．hair | B．tears | C．dirt | D．kisses |
12. | A．quickly | B．roughly | C．gently | D．slowly |
13. | A．memory | B．opinion | C．history | D．diary |
14. | A．chanced | B．missed | C．hated | D．recalled |
15. | A．Beating | B．Picking | C．Catching | D．Stopping |
16. | A．happy | B．sorry | C．annoyed | D．amused |
17. | A．and | B．while | C．because | D．but |
18. | A．remembered | B．faded | C．forgiven | D．apologized |
19. | A．hope | B．appreciation | C．thought | D．approval |
20. | A．guilt | B．pride | C．sorrow | D．Failure |
