When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage(孤儿院) every week to lead us in woodworking projects. I remember the night that I finished my first project. It was a small table and I looked upon it as though I had created a life. I could
wait to give it to Mother Winters, our orphanage’s leader, as a
.
Since the tables’ coating was still
, the man asked us to wait a while before taking our tables to our dormitories. But I couldn’t wait. I dashed out the door in a
, carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
“It is very pretty,” Mother Winter smiled at me. When she touched the coating she noticed that it was still wet. Then she asked me why I had brought. I stood with
down. “Were you supposed to bring this home?” she asked. “No, ma’am, ” I said.
Mother Winters kicked the table over and all of the legs were
off. She made me throw the table outside. After Mother Winters left, I went out to get my little table. There was dirt all over it.
silently, I hid the ruined table in my closet. A year later I gave it to Mother Henderson, my houseparent, to
.
Thirty years later I learned Mother Henderson was living in Asheville, North Carolina, so I drove up to see her. She gently asked me to come down to her basement and help her get something
. “Do you remember that?” she asked,
into a dark corner. I did. I could not speak for fear of crying. “Roger, I want you to
it.” Mother Henderson gave me back the little
that I had given up for lost so long ago. She had kept it, never
if she would see me again.
Today, I look at the table with bittersweet memories. I think of when Mother Winters forced me to throw it away. But I am also
and joyful at the kindness of Mother Henderson, who kept it as a remembrance of a young orphan who tried very hard to
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| 小题1: | | A．only | B．hardly | C．almost | D．simply |
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| 小题2: | | A．gift | B．reward | C．work | D．praise |
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| 小题3: | | A．unfinished | B．drying | C．covering | D．applied |
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| 小题4: | | A．way | B．while | C．circle | D．hurry |
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| 小题5: | | A．head | B．tears | C．voice | D．hands |
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| 小题6: | | A．taken | B．broken | C．cut | D．let |
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| 小题7: | | A．Screaming | B．Freezing | C．Standing | D．Crying |
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| 小题8: | | A．put away | B．throw away | C．take away | D．wash away |
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| 小题9: | | A．proper | B．popular | C．important | D．expensive |
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| 小题10: | | A．struggling | B．diving | C．sliding | D．pointing |
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| 小题12: | | A．table | B．gift | C．memory | D．joy |
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| 小题13: | | A．promising | B．hoping | C．knowing | D．complaining |
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| 小题14: | | A．excited | B．comforted | C．amused | D．entertained |
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| 小题15: | | A．accept | B．struggle | C．tolerate | D．please |
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