I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid,
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I dreamed of becoming a doctor.
My mother was a
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. Through her work, she observed that
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people spent a lot more time
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than they did watch television. She
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that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and
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written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and under-line the important 小题7:
. Years later we realized her marks were only a
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My mother was a illiterate (文盲). Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be
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.
When I entered high school I was an A-student,
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not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A—student then to a B--student then to a C-student, but I didn't 小题11:
. I was cool.One night my mother came home from working her multiple jobs and I
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about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I will give you all the money I make this week by scrubbing floors and
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bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all that you want." I was very
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with that arrangement but
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I got through allocating (分配) money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a
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over our heads and any kind of food on the table, much less to buy clothes. I also
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that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success
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intellectual preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A—student
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, and eventually I fulfilled my dream and I became a
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.
| 小题22: | | A．woman servant | B．teacher | C．scientist | D．nurse |
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| 小题23: | | A．healthy | B．successful | C．powerful | D．clever |
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| 小题24: | | A．searching | B．reading | C．working | D．training |
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| 小题25: | | A．ordered | B．insisted | C．suggested | D．announced |
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| 小题26: | | A．hand in | B．turn over | C．pick up | D．cut down |
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| 小题27: | | A．titles | B．magazines | C．books | D．parts |
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| 小题28: | | A．game | B．trick | C．pleasure | D．task |
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| 小题29: | | A．anybody | B．nobody | C．somebody | D．everybody |
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| 小题32: | | A．thought | B．chatted | C．complained | D．worried |
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| 小题33: | | A．repairing | B．cleaning | C．rubbing | D．watching |
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| 小题34: | | A．encouraged | B．puzzled | C．moved | D．pleased |
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| 小题35: | | A．now that | B．if | C．when | D．since |
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| 小题36: | | A．wall | B．house | C．window | D．roof |
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| 小题37: | | A．realized | B．imagined | C．believed | D．noticed |
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| 小题38: | | A．suited | B．required | C．made | D．matched |
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| 小题39: | | A．even | B．forever | C．before | D．again |
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| 小题40: | | A．professor | B．expert | C．doctor | D．boss |
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