Frank told us of his childhood. “My dad was a fisherman, and he
36 the sea. It was
37 making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out
38 he caught enough to feed the family.”
“He was a big man, and was
39 from pulling the nets and fighting the seas. When you got close to him, he smelled like the
40 . No matter how much my mother
41 his clothes, they would
42 smell of fish.”
“Every day he drove me to school. When the old truck
rattled (嘎嘎作响) down the road, I would shrink down into the seat hoping to
43 . When we reached school, he would give me a kiss on the cheek and
44 me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. I was
45 twelve years old!”
“I
46 the day I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When he started to lean toward me, I put my hand up and said, ‘No, Dad.’ It was the first time I had ever talked to him in that
47 , and he had this
48 look on his face. I said, ‘Dad, I’m too old for a goodbye kiss.’ My dad looked at me and his eyes were filled with tears. I had never seen him
49 . ‘You’re right,’ he said. ‘You are a big boy...a man. I won’t
50 you any more.’”
51 began to well up in Frank’s eyes, “It wasn’t long after that when my dad went to sea and never came back.
52 of the boats stayed in that day because of a coming storm, but not dad. He had a big family to
53 .”
“Guys, you don’t know what I would like is to have my dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek, to feel his
54 old face, to smell the ocean on him. I wish I had been a man then.
55 I had been a man, I would never have told my dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss.”
| 小题1: | | A．hated | B．loved | C．owned | D．sold |
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| 小题2: | | A．hard | B．enjoyable | C．easy | D．comfortable |
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| 小题3: | | A．before | B．after | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题4: | | A．thin | B．fat | C．weak | D．strong |
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| 小题5: | | A．ocean | B．land | C．sky | D．animals |
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| 小题6: | | A．made | B．washed | C．changed | D．bought |
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| 小题7: | | A．never | B．seldom | C．still | D．ever |
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| 小题8: | | A．survive | B．disappear | C．succeed | D．appear |
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| 小题9: | | A．force | B．advise | C．order | D．tell |
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| 小题10: | | A．sometimes | B．once | C．already | D．only |
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| 小题11: | | A．remember | B．forget | C．recognize | D．forecast |
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| 小题12: | | A．voice | B．way | C．case | D．attitude |
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| 小题13: | | A．tired | B．surprised | C．worried | D．annoyed |
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| 小题15: | | A．kiss | B．cheat | C．punish | D．beat |
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| 小题16: | | A．Fear | B．Tears | C．Blood | D．Anger |
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| 小题18: | | A．blame | B．hold | C．rescue | D．feed |
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| 小题19: | | A．smooth | B．dirty | C．rough | D．clean |
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| 小题20: | | A．If | B．When | C．Whether | D．Where |
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