One evening last summer, when I asked my 14-year-old son, Ray,for help with dinner, his reply shocked me.“What's a colander(漏勺)?” he asked. I could only blame(责备)
_____ . In the family, nobody else went into the kitchen except me. But that night, as I
_____to him that a colander is the thing with holes in it,I wondered what else I hadn’t
____Ray for.
As parents, while we focus on our sons’ confidence and character,we perhaps don’t always consider that we are
____raising someone's future roommates, boyfriends, husbands,or fathers.
_____I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was
____to find that he didn't say no. For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine.
I knew that he would rather have been playing basketball with friends than
____ to mend socks with his mother,but in fact he was learning, and more than just housekeeping. “I appreciate(感激)what you do
_____ a mom,” he told me one day. Ray now realizes there’s
_____ masculine(男子气概的)about being helpless.
Now,not only can he make his own dinner, but also he can make a big meal for his family. That’s
_____I call a man. I’m glad that I prepared so great a present for my future daughter in-law.
15. A.themselves | B.ourselves | C.myself | D.himself |
16. A.explained | B.continued | C.thought | D.advised |
17. A.planned | B.prepared | C.produced | D.punished |
18. A.even | B.also | C.still | D.either |
19. 20. A.cheerful | B.nervous | C.patient | D.serious |
21. A.learning | B.checking | C.asking | D.affording |
22. 23. A.something | B.anything | C.everything | D.nothing |
24.