Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Night after night, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead. I don’t remember ___1.___ it first started annoying me ----her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for ___2.___ felt work-worn and rough against my young skin. Finally, one night, I shouted ___3.___ her, “Don’t do that any more---- your hands are too rough!” she didn’t say anything in reply. ____4.__ never again did my mother close out my day with that familiar expression of love. Now, my own children are __5.__(grow) and gone. It was late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I slept in the bedroom of my youth, __6.___ familiar hand hesitantly run across my face to brush the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss __7.___(gentle) touched my brow. In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night my young voice complained, “Don’t do that any more ---- your hands are too rough!” ___8.__(catch) Mom’s hand in hand, I blurted out ___9.___ sorry I was for that night. I thought she’d remember as I did. But mom didn’t know what I ___10.__ (talk) about. She had forgotten ---- and forgiven ---- long ago. That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands.

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