Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years.She would ____ down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead. I don't remember when it first started ___ me — her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt workworn and rough ____ my young skin.Finally，one night, I shouted out at her, “Don't do that any more—your hands are too rough！” she made no ____ and left quietly.But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her ____. With the passing years, my ____returned to that night time after time.By then I ____ my mother's hands and her goodnight kiss.Sometimes the incident seemed very ____， sometimes far away, but always it was ____ in the back of my mind. The years have passed, and I'm not a little girl any more.Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once ___ to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family. Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives ____.One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself ___to her house to spend the night with her.As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to ___the hair from my forehead.Then a ____， ever so gently , touched my forehead.I burst into tears. In my memory, thousands of times, I ____ the night my young voice complained.Catching Mom's hand in hand, I told her how ____I was for that night.I thought she'd remember ____ I did.But Mom didn't know what I was talking about.She had already forgotten and ____ long ago. That night, I fell asleep with a new ____for my gentle mother and her caring hands.And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was ____ to be found.
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:D
小题6:D
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:C
小题12:A
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:D
小题16:A
小题17:D
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:C
小题1:答案 B [bent down 意即：母亲在床边俯身。]
小题2:答案 A [“when it first started annoying me...” 句中的it指母亲捋我头发这事，母亲这一举动使我不高兴。]
小题3:答案 C [母亲的手抚摸我，我感到粗糙。against 有 touching 之意。]
小题4:答案 A [我冲母亲叫，她没回应。这里用reply。 promise : 诺言；request: 要求；agreement: 同意。]
小题5:答案 D [根据上下文，这里的意思是：母亲表达的是一种爱。]
小题6:答案 D [我几年之后又想到那晚的情景，think的名词是thoughts；feelings: 感情，心情。]
小题7:答案 A [我怀念母亲的手。missed: 想念，惦记。]
小题8:答案 B [儿时发生的那件事在我的记忆中时而近时而远，但总是内心挥之不去的愧疚。close与后文的far away有关。]
小题9:答案 C [句中的it指“愧疚”，它始终在我心中。be hidden in 隐藏在……； exist是不及物动词搭配不对。]
小题10:答案 B [“I once changed to be so rough”是定语从句修饰hands, 这里的意思是：我使母亲的手变得粗糙，因为母亲为我操劳了许多。]
小题11:答案 C [父亲去世后，母亲单独生活。后文有．..to her house to spend the night with her。]
小题12:答案 A [drawn to her house: 自己被母爱所“吸引”。]
小题13:答案 C [把挡住额头的头发梳了过去。 brush one's hair：梳头发。]
小题14:答案 B [母亲吻了我。]
小题15:答案 D [recall：回忆；returned：返回；归还； remembered：记住； realized：意识到。I recalled the night...意即：I thought of the night...]
小题16:答案 A [sorry一词与愧疚有关。其余的选项与上下文意思不符。]
小题17:答案 D [as I did是一个表方式的状语，像我一样记得那事。]
小题18:答案 D [这里说的是作者对母亲的手产生了一种新的“感激”。]
小题19:答案 B [forgotten and forgiven说的是母亲忘了，原谅了我。abandoned：被放弃/扔弃，遗弃/了的。]
小题20:答案 C [母女情深，这时我感到得到了母爱的包容，因而我的愧疚荡然无存。]