I was brought up by my grandparents for the first years of my life. We
36 in a very small community and all of my aunts and uncles lived 37_ . Everyone had a hand in taking care of my safety. Of course in those days
38 everyone in the community spoke the beautiful language of my childhood. When my grandfather spoke I would
_ 39_ him carefully.
Then at age six my father
40 from the army. I was forbidden to speak that
41 ever again. My grandfather was
42 . He couldn’t speak English, so my grandmother would
43 for him whenever he spoke to me. With my mother and father we
44 from that small community. I was about to enter public school so I had to learn English. My grandfather
45 when I was eight and we returned to that small community for his funeral. He was
46 in the living room, as was the tradition. I went and stood by him and 47 no one was around I spoke to him in a whisper
48 that beautiful language of my childhood. That was the
49 time I spoke those words.
Almost fifty years later,
_ 50 _ I had forgotten the beautiful language of my childhood, I had the opportunity to
51 a newly written paper of it. On my first look at it I recognized 52 . I must have looked it over several times in the following weeks. Then one day I read out loud a word from my past. I almost cried. I was
53 reading over other words. Words came
54 back to me after all these years. When receiving something from someone, you don’t take it from their hand, rather you let them lay it in your hand. For me it was
55 ---The beautiful language of my childhood was Michif. It was not only a language but also a way of life.
| 小题1: | | A．lived | B．reached | C．made | D．put |
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| 小题2: | | A．far | B．nearby | C．inside | D．outside |
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| 小题3: | | A．never | B．already | C．seldom | D．almost |
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| 小题4: | | A．give | B．believe in | C．listen to | D．like |
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| 小题5: | | A．returned | B．went | C．rushed | D．swept |
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| 小题6: | | A．language | B．community | C．hand | D．safety |
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| 小题7: | | A．happy | B．joyful | C．heartbroken | D．warm-blooded |
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| 小题8: | | A．look | B．translate | C．wait | D．speak |
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| 小题9: | | A．moved into | B．move back | C．move away | D．moved on |
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| 小题10: | | A．worked | B．traveled | C．visited | D．died |
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| 小题11: | | A．carried out | B．laid out | C．held out | D．pick out |
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| 小题12: | | A．when | B．if | C．even if | D．although |
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| 小题14: | | A．first | B．latter | C．last | D．former |
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| 小题15: | | A．long before | B．long ago | C．before long | D．long after |
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| 小题16: | | A．beat | B．see | C．ask | D．touch |
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| 小题17: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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| 小题18: | | A．sadly | B．hardly | C．faithfully | D．anxiously |
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| 小题19: | | A．drawing | B．frying | C．flooding | D．steaming |
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| 小题20: | | A．simple | B．merciful | C．perfect | D．bitter |
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