Standing in the driveway, I watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their 36 _____ .
“They live too far away from me,” I said to myself. “When did they 37 _____ and become parents of small children? 38 _____ that be me?”
I slipped back inside the house and just walked through the rooms for no reason 39 _____.1 was just missing them already and looking for 40 _____ of their having been here. There were pillows on the floor and a few stuffed (填充)animals 41 _____ around where the children had been playing.
I walked into the 42 _____ and there on the back of the sink was a bottle brush that had been left behind. “Ah,even Tessa left something behind,” I 43 _____ Well, I suppose she had help 44 _____ she was just four months old.
As I walked around the house, I picked up a few more 45 _____ on the floor — Tegan’S tooth, a pie pan, and the inside of a turkey fryer.
ttHmmm, things left behind ...’’I thought to myself. It seems there is one thing left behind on every 46 _____ . Memories are always left behind, I reasoned, and what a(n) 47 _____ thing good memories are to us. I thought how each item left behind 48 _____ me of the person it belonged to and the story 49 _____ it.
Memories happen even if we aren’t 50 _____ of it. The stressful and difficult moments often become memories that we 51 _____ later with laughter and joy. The memories of past hurts, bitterness, and anger, 52 . should be left behind 53 _____These are the things that we should never 54 _____ until the next time they come, mail back, or bring with us to 55_____next visit.
As Elizabeth Stone said, “To have a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
小题1: | A.smiles | B.vehicles | C.pains | D.bicycles |
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小题2: | A.drop out | B.break away | C.set off | D.grow up |
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小题3: | A.Wouldn’t | B.Shouldn’t | C.Can’t | D.Needn’t |
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小题4: | A.in particular | B.with anger | C.with joy | D.in return |
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小题5: | A.signals | B.atmosphere | C.signs | D.information |
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小题6: | A.lying | B.jumping | C.moving | D.looking |
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小题7: | A.house | B.distance | C.kitchen | D.driveway |
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小题8: | A.announced | B.explained | C.complained | D.replied |
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小题9: | A.when | B.unless | C.until | D.since |
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小题10: | A.toys | B.items | C.memories | D.treasures |
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小题11: | A.table | B.course | C.occasion | D.comer |
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小题12: | A.funny | B.private | C.ordinary | D.precious |
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小题13: | A.reminded | B.informed | C.warned | D.convinced |
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小题14: | A.promoting | B.surrounding | C.acknowledging | D.exposing |
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小题15: | A.proud | B.ashamed | C.aware | D.afraid |
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小题16: | A.attach importance to | B.throw doubt on | C.look forward to | D.look back upon |
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小题17: | A.besides | B.therefore | C.otherwise | D.though |
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小题18: | A.partly | B.sometimes | C.forever | D.unwillingly |
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小题19: | A.present | B.keep | C.overlook | D.experience |
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