I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son looked
36 at me and said, “I love you.” I didn't know what to say.
37 several seconds all I could do was to stand there and
38 down at him . My first thought was that he must need
39 with his homework or he was trying to
40 me for some news.
Finally I asked, “What was that all about?” “Nothing,” he said. “My teacher said we should
41 our parents that we love them and sees what they say. It’s
42 .
The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had
43 .
“Basically, most of the fathers had the
44 reaction as you did,” the teacher said. “When I first
45 we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.
“The
46 is,” the teacher explained, “feeling loved is an important part of
47 . It is something all people
48 . What I'm trying to tell the children is that it's too
49 we don't all express those feeling. A boy
50 tell his dad he loves him.”
The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how
51 it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.
When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for a (n)
52 moment. And just
53 he pulled away , I said in my deepest , most manly voice , “Hey , I love you , too . ”
I don't know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time one of my children says “I love you”, it would not take me a whole 54 to think of the right 55 .
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| 小题7: | | A．a matter | B．an experiment | C．a word | D．a sentence |
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| 小题10: | | A．suggested | B．agreed | C．allowed | D．planned |
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| 小题11: | | A．point | B．idea | C．way | D．cause |
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| 小题12: | | A．body | B．health | C．work | D．study |
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| 小题16: | | A．easy | B．much | C．often | D．difficult |
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| 小题17: | | A．more | B．full | C．exact | D．extra |
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| 小题18: | | A．before | B．after | C．because | D．if |
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| 小题19: | | A．day | B．week | C．afternoon | D．night |
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| 小题20: | | A．answer | B．result | C．reason | D．experiment |
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