文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者的母亲是一位全职妈妈,把照顾孩子和家庭当作自己的工作。她年轻时候很漂亮,学业成绩优异,如果投身事业的话,应该会是一位成功的女性。虽然作者母亲的所作所为在今天会被很多女性认为是对优秀能力的浪费,但作者却感激母亲的付出,清楚地记得被她等待着放学回家的感觉。
7 . From my childhood on, my mother didn’t have a job. If she was asked to _______ a personal questionnaire, she would leave the question “Employment” _______. She believed that her job was to be my mother—full time.
There is an old photograph of my mother and father, taken in 1942. In the photo my mother looks very beautiful, I think. When I look at the photo, I see a woman full of _______ in life. If she had put her mind to getting a career, the whole world would have been in her hands. The story of her youth fully _______ this. She got a brilliant exam in one of the finest schools in the country.
_______ she has always been a housewife and mother. Everyone in the town _______ her for her great effort into charity work, but if someone asked her what she did _______ she answered that she was Robert Greene’s wife, and Robert’s mother.
What I _______ best from my childhood is how it felt to get home from school. She was always there waiting for us. Today there are probably many women seeing what she did as a _______ of my mother’s good abilities. I don’t make ________ either. But so many years later, I still remember how it felt to rush home—and there was mum, waiting for us.
1. A.take out | B.make out | C.fill out | D.check out |
2. A.simple | B.empty | C.decent | D.unknown |
3. A.chances | B.pace | C.humor | D.regrets |
4. A.improves | B.ruins | C.changes | D.proves |
5. 6. A.employed | B.forgave | C.concerned | D.admired |
7. A.for a drink | B.for a rescue | C.for a living | D.for a start |
8. A.demanded | B.learned | C.operated | D.remembered |
9. A.waste | B.reaction | C.symbol | D.risk |
10. A.progress | B.option | C.sense | D.excuses |