Every night, my mother would come to my room, lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead．
I don't remember when it first started
26 me --her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did make me annoyed, for they felt work - worn and
27 against my young skin．Finally, one night, I shouted at her: “Don' t do that any more --your
28 are too rough！" She didn’t say anything in
29 ．But never again did my mother close out my day with that _
30 expression of her love．
Time after time, with the
31 years, my thoughts returned to that night． I'm not a little girl any more．Mom is in her mid - seventies, and those hands I
32 thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my
33 .
Now, my own children are
34 Mom no longer has Dad．It was late on that Thanksgiving Eve, as I went to sleep in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand
35 before stealing across my face to brush the
36 from my forehead．Then a kiss, ever so
_37 touched my brow．In my
38 , thousands of times, I
39 the night my young voice complained．
40 Mom's hand in my hand, I said how
41 I was for that night．I thought she'd remember, as I did,
_42 Mom didn't know what I was talking about．She had forgotten—and
43 —long ago．
That night, I fell asleep with a new
44 for my gentle mother and her caring hands． And the
45 I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found．
| 小题1: | | A．surprising | B．hurting | C．annoying | D．amazing |
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| 小题2: | | A．rough | B．gentle | C．smooth | D．strong |
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| 小题3: | | A．noises | B．words | C．feelings | D．hands |
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| 小题4: | | A．anger | B．silence | C．reply | D．fear |
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| 小题5: | | A．healthy | B．familiar | C．popular | D．perfect |
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| 小题6: | | A．coming | B．remaining | C．following | D．passing |
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| 小题7: | | A．often | B．even | C．never | D．once |
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| 小题8: | | A．family | B．neighbor | C．husband | D．home |
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| 小题9: | | A．developed | B．grown | C．moved | D．forgotten |
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| 小题10: | | A．imagined | B．hesitated | C．regretted | D．trembled |
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| 小题11: | | A．hair | B．tears | C．dirt | D．kisses |
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| 小题12: | | A．quickly | B．roughly | C．gently | D．slowly |
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| 小题13: | | A．memory | B．opinion | C．history | D．diary |
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| 小题14: | | A．chanced | B．missed | C．hated | D．recalled |
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| 小题15: | | A．Beating | B．Picking | C．Catching | D．Stopping |
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| 小题16: | | A．happy | B．sorry | C．annoyed | D．amused |
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| 小题17: | | A．and | B．faded | C．because | D．but |
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| 小题18: | | A．remembered | B．while | C．forgiven | D．apologized |
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| 小题19: | | A．hope | B．appreciation | C．thought | D．approval |
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| 小题20: | | A．guilt | B．pride | C．sorrow | D．failure |
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