People say one man's trash(垃圾) is another man's treasure. That
comes to me as I
the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house
my sister and me when he died a few months ago.
After Dad was
, we looked around the
house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so
all the stuff(东西) left. Like so many of their generation
, my parents
everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious
about what to abandon and what to keep.
As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every
my parents ever saw, I also
many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it,
her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler,
everything -- from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the
. The letters he wrote during the war
his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I
our old kitchen table, which brought back
of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.
I'm realizing all these things
my parents' life journey. Each time I go to
, I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I
knew.
, from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.
小题1: | A.coincidence | B.goal | C.principle | D.thought |
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小题2: | A.looked for | B.looked through | C.looked into | D.looked after |
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小题4: | A.retired | B.ill | C.gone | D.injured |
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小题5: | A.clean | B.strange | C.empty | D.modern |
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小题6: | A.pleased with | B.familiar with | C.astonished at | D.disappointed at |
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小题7: | A.saved | B.enjoyed | C.purchased | D.designed |
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小题8: | A.decisions | B.bargains | C.challenges | D.responsibilities |
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小题9: | A.person | B.doctor | C.neighbor | D.child |
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小题10: | A.bought | B.discovered | C.buried | D.lost |
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小题12: | A.liked | B.bought | C.kept | D.lost |
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小题13: | A.countryside | B.school | C.college | D.army |
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小题14: | A.receive | B.direct | C.sense | D.describe |
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小题15: | A.repaired | B.cleaned | C.spotted | D.set |
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小题16: | A.introductions | B.memories | C.descriptions | D.communications |
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小题17: | A.represented | B.recognized | C.instructed | D.confirmed |
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小题18: | A.the supermarket | B.church | C.my office | D.the house |
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小题19: | A.merely | B.always | C.really | D.never |
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小题20: | A.Everything | B.Nothing | C.Anything | D.Something |
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