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
me --her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did make me annoyed, for they felt work - worn and
against my young skin．Finally, one night, I shouted at her: “Don' t do that any more --your
are too rough！” She didn’t say anything in
．But never again did my mother close out my day with that
expression of her love．
Time after time, with the
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
thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my
Now, my own children are
. 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
before stealing across my face to brush the
from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so
touched my brow．In my
, thousands of times, I
the night my young voice complained.
Mom's hand in my hand, I said how
I was for that night. I thought she'd remember, as I did,
Mom didn't know what I was talking about. She had forgotten — and
—long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new
for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the
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．while | C．because | D．but |
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| 小题18: | | A．remembered | B．faded | 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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