Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

A gift of gold

It was the winter of 1937, just after Christmas. The Depression was still going on, but I was in good spirits. I was going to graduate from elementary school, but my mother still dressed me in shorts. Most of my classmates had given up wearing shorts. For the graduation ceremony, all the boys were expected to wear white shirts and dark blue wool pants.

I waited until a week before I told my mother. On a cold Monday afternoon I went home from school.

“Mom,” I said, “about graduation...”

“Yes?” she answered.

“They are going to give me the first-prize medal,” I said.

Still working over the stove, she looked over her shoulder at me and smiled broadly. “That’s wonderful, Babe. Dad and I will be both there, and we’ll be the proudest.”

She must have seen by the look on my face that something was wrong. She turned her back and said, “So?”

“So, I have to get long pants,” I said.

“Babe, we don’t have money for new pants right now,” she said.

“Okay,” I burst out.“Then I won’t go to graduation. Plus, I’m running away from home!”

“If I were you, I wouldn’t pack my bags. We’ll solve the problem of pants somehow,” she said.

The following Saturday, when my mother said “Let’s go shopping”, I knew that she had solved the problem. Then we left home. We took the trolley (有轨电车) and got off at Southern Boulevard, the best shopping street. The clothing store was just a couple of blocks away.

But first we walked a short way down the Boulevard and stopped at a place I had never noticed before.

“Wait here,” she said. Then she entered a storefront that looked like a bank and opened the door with the hand with a gold wedding ring on her ring finger.

She went out about ten minutes later with a purse in her left hand, and then we went to the pants store. I chose a pair of pants. After a patient bargain with the seller, my mother bought it at the price of three dollars and fifty cents and handed it to me.

注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

I was holding the pants tightly under my arm when my mother went to pay the money.

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Paragraph 2:

We took the trolley back home.

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Answer 1

【答案】Paragraph 1:

I was holding the pants tightly under my arm when my mother went to pay the money. As soon as I turned around, I saw her take a sum of money out of her pure in her left hand. I didn’t know where my mom got all this money from. Finally she handed this money for the pants to the seller, who immediately gave my mother the fifty cents change. Mom smiled at me and said, “Let’s go back, honey.”

Paragraph 2

We took the trolley back home. And the trolley was crowded with many people, so my mother and I were standing together all the time. However, I even imagined walking up to the stage in my new pants to receive my medal, and I couldn’t help laughing. When we got home, my mother took out the key and wanted to open the door. And at that moment, I noticed that the gold wedding ring on her ring finger my mother had always worn was missing. Perhaps it was mother who sold it, and I felt sad, lost in thought.

【解析】

本篇书面表达是读后续写

通过阅读所给文章可知，1937年的冬天，作者即将参加小学毕业典礼，他告诉母亲他需要一条裤子参加毕业典礼，但当时作者的家里买不起一条新裤子。作者的母亲告诉作者会想办法解决。有一天，作者和母亲坐有轨电车来到了商业街，作者的母亲先进入了一家看起来像银行的店铺，之后花了三美元五十美分给作者买了一条裤子。

续写部分分为两段，第一段开头是：当我妈妈去付钱的时候，我把裤子紧紧地抱在怀里。所以应该写我抱着新裤子，看着母亲去付钱，当我看到母亲拿出钱的时候，我心中疑惑：母亲的钱是从哪来的。最后母亲付完款喊我回家。第二段开头是：我们乘坐电车回家了。本段应该写我和母亲在拥挤的电车上，但我却想到我穿着新裤子去领奖，这让我忍不住笑出声来。当我们到家，母亲去开门的时候，我注意到一直戴在母亲手上的金戒指不见了。我猜到母亲把它卖了，我感到很难过并陷入了沉思。

续写时要求至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语增加了写作难度，我们要熟悉所给划线词语，恰当的时候加以运用。最后还要注意所续写短文的词数应为150左右；续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。按要求完成写作任务。