Night after night, she came to help me sleep, even long after my childhood years.
I don’t remember____it first started making me a little angry 一 my mom’s hands pushing my hair that way. But it really made me uncomfortable, for they____rough(粗糙的)against my young skin. Finally, one night, I____her, ‘‘Don’t do that any more. Your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say anything,____she never did it again.
Years later, I missed my mother’s____and her goodnight kiss on my face. I’m not a little girl any more. My mom is____her mid-seventies, and her rough hands are still doing things for my family and me.
Now my own children have____It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in my bedroom, a familiar hand ran across my____to push the hair from my head. Then a kiss, ever so softly, touched my brow(额头).
Taking my mom’s hand, I told her how____I was for that night I shouted at her. But my mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten it long ago.
That night, I____with a new appreciation(感激)for my mother’s caring hands. And the guilt(内疚)that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
3. | A.nodded at | B.shouted at | C.seemed |
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7. | A.stayed up | B.woken up | C.grown up |
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10. | A.left home | B.kept working | C.fell asleep |
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