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Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was __1__ into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, was __2__ , with the secondhand green typewriter on the table.

She told me that she couldn‘t __3__ fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof of how __4__ I understood the pressure on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very slowly to understand. “ I guess we all have to __5__ something,”

Mother said quietly. I could __6__ her pain and the tension of __7__ the strong feelings that were interrupted by my __8__ . Suddenly, something inside me lit up. I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face__9__ my shoulder and sobbed. I held her __10__ and didn't try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could and that was __11__ . At

that moment, feeling Mother's __12__ with feelings, I understood for the first time her being easy to __13__ . She was still my mother, __14__ she was something __15__ : a person like me, capable of fear and __16__ and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand

occasions when I sought __17__ in her arms. A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station __18__. “ It's a job I can do, though,” she said simply. But the evening practice on the green typewriter continued. I had a very __19__ feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her __20__ away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.

1.A. tired                B. ashamed                C. lazy                 D. shocked

2.A. crying              B. smiling                   C. thinking           D. whispering

3.A. understand      B. type                      C. run                   D. return

4.A. eagerly            B. worriedly                C. little                  D. much

5.A. fail                  B. win                        C. forget                D. obtain

6.A. kill                  B. watch                     C. sense                D. recognize

7.A. holding back    B. putting away           C. staying up         D. stopping from

8.A. pain                B. laughter                 C. arrival                D. disappearance

9.A. to                   B. up                         C. through             D. against

10.A. tightly           B. thoughtfully            C. carefully             D. politely

11.A. enough         B. precise                   C. content              D. serious

12.A. hand            B. face                        C. hair                   D. back

13.A. satisfy          B. break                     C. fall                      D. shout

14.A. while            B. although                 C. yet                     D. since

15.A. more            B. excellent                 C. strange               D. huge

16.A. wound          B. defeat                     C. cut                     D. hurt

17.A. kindness       B. memory                  C. comfort               D. support

18.A. supplied        B. offered                   C. paid for               D. contributed

19.A. different        B. hard                      C. pleasant               D. devoted

20.A. screaming      B. laughing                 C. tapping               D. sewing

答案及解析:

1. D.刚刚放学回家,我被眼前的一幕震惊(shocked)得目瞪口呆。

2. A.由下文的finding Mother in tears可知此处应填crying。

3. B.这里指的是母亲打字(type)不快,因此下岗。

4. C.在发现母亲伤心流泪时,我所表现的尴尬和震惊证明了我对母亲肩负的压力了解得是那么的少(little)。

5. A.母亲在自我安慰:我想我们大家都会失败。something前省略了介词in.

6.感觉到。我察觉到母亲的痛苦和尽力抑制自己的感情。kill杀;watch观看;recognize认出,承认。

7. back抑制;put away把……收起来;sit up坐起,熬夜;stop from阻止……做。这里指母亲控制自己的感情。

8. C.此处是说母亲的感情被“我”的到来打断了。

9. D.我伸手抱住了母亲,她那时完全崩溃(broke)了。

10. A.我紧紧地抱着她。

11. A.我知道我在做我应该做的事和我能做的事情,那已经足够了。

12. D.双手抱着母亲,此处应该是抚摸着母亲的背部。

13. B.此处是说“我”第一次懂得了母亲很容易心碎、垮下。所以填break.

14. C.此处是转折关系。

15. A.然而母亲像我一样也有别的东西:恐惧、内心的痛苦和失败。

16. 多指精神上的痛苦。

17. C.此处的意思是:我在她的臂弯里寻求安慰(comfort)时。

18. radio station offered为定语从句,修饰salary.

19. A.作者夜里走过妈妈的房门,还听到妈妈在练习打字,自然是感慨万千,所以应填different,别样的感觉。

20. (在打字机上)敲打。