After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know the other woman loves you and would love to spend some with you.” The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been for 20 years, but the demands of my work and my boys made it possible to visit her only .
Then I called to visit her to go out for dinner and a movie. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she had curled her and was wearing a nice dress. My mother took my arm she were the First Lady.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable —nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie. At last, she said,” I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I .
Two days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a to do anything for her.
Later, I received a copy of a restaurant receipt from the place mother and I had dined. A(n) note said, “I paid this bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates—one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night for me. I love you, son.”
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time “I LOVE YOU” and giving our loved ones the time that they . Nothing in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be till “some other time”.
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解析试题分析:本文讲述了作者一次和母亲去吃饭的经历,这对母亲很重要,也告诉我们,多花些时间和亲人在一起比什么都重要。
【小题1】本题考查名词。A. time时间,B. money钱,C. dinner晚餐,D. movie电影, spend some time with sb. 与某人共度时光。选A.
【小题2】本题考查形容词。A. upset不安的,B. cheerful令人振奋的,C. alone孤单的,D. excited兴奋的,结合下文“我只能偶尔去看母亲”,所以她是“孤独的”。选C.
【小题3】本题考查副词。A. usually自然地,B. occasionally偶然地,C. frequently经常地,D. often经常,句中的but起了暗示作用,句意为:但我的工作只能让我偶尔去看母亲。occasionally表示“偶尔地”。选B.
【小题4】本题考查名词。A. program课程,B. comb梳子,C. organ器官,D. hair头发, curl one’s hair烫发。选D.
【小题5】本题考查连词。A. as if好像,B. even though即使,C. such as例如,D. as to至于,
妈妈挽着我的胳膊好像是第一夫人,选A.
【小题6】本题考查名词。A. discussion讨论,B. quarrel争吵,C. conversation对话,D. fight打斗,由前面的修饰词agreeable(意为“愉悦的;令人高兴的)可知,母子之间的谈话(conversation)很温馨。选C.
【小题7】本题考查动词。A. refused拒绝,B. wondered想知道,C. ordered命令,D. agreed同意,母亲提出下次她请我, 我答应了。选D.
【小题8】本题考查名词。A. luck幸运,B. chance机会,C. will愿望,D. hope希望, have a chance to do有机会做某事。发生的是如此突然我没有机会为她做些什么。选B.
【小题9】本题考查动词A. connected联系,B. attached附带的;附加的,C. abandoned放弃,D. deserted抛弃,我收到饭店的收据,附上一张便条,选 B.
【小题10】本题考查动词。A. cared关心,B. arranged安排,C. meant在此处的意思是“意谓着;有...的意义;重要” D. applied申请,你永远不知道那晚对我意味着什么,选C.
【小题11】本题考查动词。A. spend花费,B. want想要,C. need需要,D. deserve意为“值得;应得”。
句意为:给我们的亲人他们应得的时间。后面也有提示。选D.
【小题12】本题考查动词短语。A. put off推迟,B. paid off还清,有回报,C. put forward提出,D. looked forward向前看,结合全文可知“我”懂得了及时说“我爱你”的重要性。由此他提醒读者“没有比你的家人更重要的了”所以不要推迟与他们共度的时光到其他时刻。选A.
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My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an _. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market(跳蚤市场). She collected little weeds and such to sell anything for the we needed, she was such an embarrassment. I remember that it was field day(户外活动日) during elementary school, and my mom came. I was so . How could she do this to me? I threw her a look and ran out. The next day at school, “Your mom only has one eye?" they me.
I wished that my mom would just from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock(笑柄). Why don't you just die?" My mom did not . I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time.
Maybe it was because my mom hadn't me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.
That night I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was there, so , as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned . Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching (夹痛)at me in the corner of my . Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become , because I hated my one-eyed mom and our poverty.
Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got admitted to the Seoul University with all the I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't me of my mom.
This was getting bigger and bigger, when someone came to see me. "What? Who's this?" It was my mother still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little daughter ran away, of my mom's eye.
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I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As we our coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n) table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall”. We this order with rather interest and observed that he was with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.
While we were still there, two other men and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but for three and left. This time also, the did the same; he put up a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A cup of coffee.” It seemed that this gesture was a at this place. , it was something unique and puzzling for us. Since we had to do with the matter, we our coffee, paid the bill and left.
After a few days, we again had a(n) to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man walked in. The way this man was dressed did not the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop. Poverty was from the looks on his face. he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the .” The waiter served coffee to this man with and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter a piece of paper from the wall and threw it into the dustbin.
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When Mr. Smith was walking one evening, he met four of his old friends. To be polite, he invited them to come home with him to . He hoped that they would say no, but , they quickly agreed and home with him.
Mr. Smith was a man. There was never in his house. He knew that there very little for supper that night, he did not know how to break away from his guests without being impolite, so he let them come with him to house. But when they came his front door, he suddenly rushed forward, opened the door, went in, closed in again and then locked it. He found in the kitchen and quickly told her had happened.
Mr. Smith’s guests were at first . Then they thought he had perhaps gone ahead to get ready for the . When nothing had yet happened for a few minutes, they began to and to knock heavily at the door. After this had gone for some time, Mr. Smith sent his wife to a window to talk to . She told them that Mr. Smith .
“What do you mean, woman?” shouted one of the men. “We came here a few minutes ago and we saw him go into the house.”
Mr. Smith was now afraid that the noise his friends were making would bring his neighbours around and that he would be , so he put his head out of the window and said to his friends, “This house has a door, too. Perhaps Mr. Smith came in through the front door and went out through the other.”
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A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the was he found himself unable to ask for help — his mobile phone went out of as a result of exhausted battery. Nothing could be done but to in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the of the rescue.
It is almost that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his : "First of all I checked up my conditions and found myself not in mortal (致命的)danger. As there was no way to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from . In this way I dozed (打盹)off ."
His story put an end to my regret for the of an exploration adventure that happened last year. A group of young men to explore a mountain cave and got lost. to find a way out in the dark cave they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of .Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to themselves, they would probably sense a faint light glimmering (闪烁)not far away .
Don’t you think that you can compare it with itself? When you meet with obstacles (障碍)in life and work, you are lost in darkness. you it’s unclear yet and you needn’t put up struggle . It seems to be a negative attitude, a person who can afford to do so must have foresight as well as a great in the first place.
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Whenever you want to make a decision, just make sure to think twice and confirm it. This is what we learn from the following story. While two old beggars were sitting on a street corner, they watched helplessly as scores of people walked by. Some purposely them and others too caught up in their own cares didn’t even notice their . Every so often, a kind-hearted woman or a small child would drop a few coins in the which lay in front of them.
As the crowd began to die down, they started to their things and head for their evening . Just as they were getting ready to leave, they noticed a man walking toward them. He was obviously a man—they could tell that from his finely tailored business suit.
The first beggar whispered to the second with , “He’s coming our way!”
The two tried not to look at the man as he stepped closer to them, but they couldn’t gazing up with anticipation he reached into his pocket and took something out.
“Thunk” was the only sound they heard as what looked like a piece of hard , wrapped in tissue paper hit each of their waiting hats. The rich man and continued on his way, not making a backward glance.
“How insulting(侮辱人的)!” said the first beggar. “He could have left us a few coins or a spare bill, but he mocks us with a piece of rock candy. Who does he think we are? ? There’s no way we can even eat this—we have no .” He picked up the object and threw it into the gutter.
“I haven’t had anything like this for ages,” the second beggar thought. “I can’t chew it, but I can suck on it , and the sugary juices will stay in my for a long time. How nice of that man to offer me something so sweet!”
With that, he the white tissue paper, but to his , there was no hard rock candy inside. However, into his fingers fell a shiny white pearl worth thousands of dollars.
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When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him __much in repairs that he decided that he had better __it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_ _ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so__ of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was __ when they met one evening, and said, “What's __, Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may __more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's__was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, __ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no __.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to__ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be__or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll __my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to __ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, __ to wait there for the people who had__ his advertisement. Even Dave had to __that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean__ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this __ to us yet, sir?”?
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One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods ____ she realized that she was lost.
Sitting on a rock and ____ what to do, she began crying. After a while,she____ to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes. ____ it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and ____ stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out of the door and back to the ____. Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a ____.
The girl's parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy ____ that his mistress(女主人)was in danger. He jumped ____ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn't find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a ____ scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He ____ the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking ____ into the air, the dog ____ through the woods until he found the ____ . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his ____ , he saw his mistress's blue shirt in the distance. He ____ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was ____.
When she opened her eyes and her dog standing beside her, the girl said, "you me, Laddy," and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of . That night Laddy had a hero's supper: a huge meal of steak
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A mouse looked through a crack(裂缝) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. “What food might this contain?”The mouse____.He was alarmed to discover that it was a mousetrap(捕鼠夹子).
Going back to the farmyard the mouse gave a(n)____:“There is a mousetrap!” The chicken raised her head and said: “Mr Mouse, I can tell this is a big____to you, but it is of no consequence to me.I cannot be____by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig. “I am so sorry,”sympathized the pig, “but there is____I can do about it but____.I will make sure that you are in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow.“Mr Mouse, I'm sorry for you,____it's no skin off my nose,” said she.
So he returned to the house, head down and___, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house,like the sound of a mousetrap____its prey.The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she didn't see that it was a____ snake whose tail the trap had caught.The snake bit her.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital.She returned home with a fever.Now everyone knows you____a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took a knife to the____for the chicken.
His wife's sickness___so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.To feed them the farmer killed the pig.
The farmer's wife didn't get____and died.So many people came for her____that the farmer had the____ killed so as to____meat for all of them to eat.
The mouse looked upon it all from his____in the wall with great____.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember—when one of us is threatened, we are all at____.
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