Coming home from school, I was filled with excitement. But I was
into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the end of the sofa,
, with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me she couldn’t type fast and she was out of work. My shock at finding mother in tears was a perfect
of how
I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very
to understand. I could
her pain and the tension (压力) of
the strong feeling that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something inside me
. I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face
my shoulder and sobbed. I held her
and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, and that was enough. At that moment,
mother’s back with feelings, I understood for the first time her being so easy to
. She was still my mother,
she was something
: a person like me, capable of fear and
and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I sought
in her arms.
A week later mother took a job at half the salary the radio station
. “It’s a job I can do, though.” She said
. But the evening practice on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very
feeling now when I heard her tapping away across the paper at night. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to
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小题1: | A.lazy | B.shocked | C.ashamed | D.tired |
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小题2: | A.smiling | B.thinking | C.crying | D.whispering |
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小题3: | A.proof | B.feeling | C.excuse | D.explanation |
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小题4: | A.little | B.much | C.eagerly | D.worriedly |
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小题5: | A.suddenly | B.slowly | C.proudly | D.quickly |
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小题6: | A.watch | B.recognize | C.look | D.sense |
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小题7: | A.putting away | B.stopping from | C.sitting up | D.holding back |
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小题8: | A.turned | B.lit | C.increased | D.rose |
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小题9: | A.through | B.against | C.up | D.to |
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小题10: | A.carefully | B.politely | C.tightly | D.thoughtfully |
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小题11: | A.feeling | B.reaching | C.watching | D.sensing |
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小题12: | A.break | B.content | C.understand | D.fall |
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小题13: | A.still | B.therefore | C.yet | D.however |
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小题14: | A.much | B.huge | C.little | D.more |
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小题15: | A.cut | B.hurt | C.defeat | D.wound |
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小题16: | A.memory | B.support | C.comfort | D.kindness |
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小题17: | A.offered | B.paid for | C.contributed | D.supplied |
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小题18: | A.sadly | B.simply | C.excitedly | D.worriedly |
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小题19: | A.hard | B.pleasant | C.serious | D.different |
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小题20: | A.work | B.write | C. type | D.sell |
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