Question

One afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married. Max walked into the dining room, where I was looking through my old photos.

These months I was learning to let Max come _________on his own. If I moved too quickly, he ran away. If I was_________, we often ended up playing, laughing, and recently, even sitting together on the sofa with a book.

“Who' s that?” he pointed to one photo.

“My mom. I suppose she is your___________Sylvia.”

“Cool. Who is that to me?”

“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago.”

“Hmm. Too bad he had to die.”

Death is always a painful___________especially for a seven-year-old child who’d lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of___________relatives.

He began to finger through the photos. "Who is that to me?

Under his finger I could see my own face. I should have known the answer to his_______question. But I said, “I’m your___________mom. I' m sorry that your first mom died.”

“What should I call you?” he asked.

Mom, I wanted to cry. I held back.

“You can call me Mom or Betsy. _________feels OK for you.”

I waited, expecting a pronouncement of my new_________.

“Sweet,” he said, walking out of the room.

For a couple of days afterward, Max __________a new title for me. "Can we go bowling?” “Can I watch TV?” he'd ask, and then__________the questions by mouthing the word Mom. Mom was always____________.

One weekend, he suddenly said, “I notice I don't call you Mom.”

“I noticed that too.”

“__________ I say Betsy, I mean Mom. Moms die, you know. I think it's maybe__________ if you’ re just Betsy.”

Tears(眼泪) were filling my eyes.

“Hey, Betsy?”

“Yeah,” I said, taking pleasure in the new ____________of my old name.

1.A. down B. near C. close D. back

2.A. kind B. patient C. Helpful D. confident

3.A. grandmother B. mother C. aunt D. cousin

4.A. subject B. speech C. message D. sign

5.A. dead B. boring C. unknown D. strict

6.A. simple B. proper C. stupid D. funny

7.A. natural B. past C. only D. second

8.A. Whoever B. Whatever C. That D. Anybody

9.A. position B. name C. title D. call

10.A. worked out B. turned out C. carried out D. tried out

11.A. answer B. follow C. confirm D. raise

12.A. alive B. wise C. silent D. lost

13.A. Until B. before C. When D. Unless

14.A. politer B. safer C. sadder D. riskier

15.A. pronunciation B. announcement C. voice D. sound

Answer 1