Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to
31 in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the
32 ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too
33 for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of
34.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there _
35 between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She
36 her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had
_37_ her. I was
38_ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:
“Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread．Sometimes it _
_39_, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt _
40__. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread．It can hardly be seen _
41 , but it’s really there. Love is
42_.”
I listened carefully but I _
_43_ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly
_44 seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked _
_45_. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father
46__ on the country road．
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t
_47 me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”
_48_ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and
49 . But from this experience, I understand that love is just _
50_ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
| 小题1: | | A．keep fit | B．rise early | C．collect money | D．earn money |
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| 小题2: | | A．romantic | B．magic | C．fantastic | D．attractive |
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| 小题3: | | A．simple | B．luxurious | C．relaxing | D．easy |
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| 小题4: | | A．question | B．the question | C．reach | D．control |
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| 小题5: | | A．feeling | B．quarrel | C．love | D．smile |
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| 小题6: | | A．bowed | B．shook | C．nodded | D．raised |
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| 小题7: | | A．hurt | B．injured | C．wounded | D．harmed |
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| 小题8: | | A．in great surprise | B．with deep depression | | C．in a great embarrassment | D．at extreme sorrow |
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| 小题9: | | A．happens | B．comes about | C．occurs | D．appears |
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| 小题10: | | A．warm and soft | B．hot and hard | C．thin and cool | D．strong and durable |
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| 小题11: | | A．more or less | B．here and there | | C．somewhere and sometime | D．anywhere or anytime |
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| 小题12: | | A．inside | B．outside | C．faraway | D．nearby |
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| 小题13: | | A．could believe | B．wouldn’t recognize | C．couldn’t understand | D．might know |
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| 小题14: | | A．got stuck | B．got sick | C．threw up | D．became disabled |
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| 小题15: | | A．quite healthy | B．fairly red | C．very pale | D．much surprised |
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| 小题16: | | A．walk slowly | B．go hurriedly | C．run fast | D．jump high |
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| 小题17: | | A．think about | B．worry about | C．talk with | D．laugh at |
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| 小题18: | | A．Saying | B．Seeing | C．Reading | D．Writing |
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| 小题19: | | A．fresh roses | B．gold ring | C．beautiful jewelry | D．sweet kisses |
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| 小题20: | | A．a needle | B．a thread | C．the cloth | D．the cotton |
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