One year ago, I worked at a Chinese traditional medicine store. Business was not bad. Every day we mixed medicinal herbs for ______, so the store was always ______ a strong herbal smell.
After I had worked there for a time, a boy of 13 or 14 started coming and sitting on the stairs outside the store for a while every day. It seemed ______ to me.
“Do you like the herbal ______?” I asked him one day.
“I grew up ______ this kind of smell,” he said. He told me that his mother took herbal medicine for ______, so he could mix herbs for his mother when he was very young. He mixed the herbs with deep love, hoping his mother would get ______ as soon as possible.
“Is your mother well now?” I asked.
He shook his head. “My mother ______ three years ago.” Looking up into the sky, he went on: “When I first passed by here and smelled the herbs, I thought of my mother. It is comforting to ______ those days when she was alive. So I come here every day to sit for a moment. When I sit around this smell, I feel ______ my mother is still alive and is waiting for her medicine in her room.”
21. A.doctors | B.partners | C.patients |
22. A.full of | B.thirsty for | C.crowded with |
23. A.strange | B.funny | C.terrible |
24. 25. 26. 27. 28. A.passed away | B.came back | C.became well |
29. 30. A.even though | B.as if | C.even if |