题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
云南省玉溪一中2018-2019学年高一下学期英语第一次月考试卷
Remembering My Father's Vest(背心)
People get into trouble because they don't know enough to keep cool. As a child, I had a lot of1that had been held back and not released. Worse still, I was not good at2.
Once as I was getting ready for school, my mother3me my father's vest instead of mine. This was around the time when I was going to be larger in4than my father, so as I put on the vest, I felt like I was being choked(使窒息) in it! I 5 that it was a small oversight(疏忽) on my mother's part, but6the feeling of being choked drowned me and I got very angry.
I took my anger out on my mother7thinking much. I was so upset when she had handed me the wrong vest, and I8by violently tearing it apart from my chest!
Later, my mother shared her own9with my father:" See what your son has done."
Instead of scolding or abusing me, my father10responded by asking my mother to11the vest. He then wore it to work the next day.
When my mother told me about my father's response much later, when I had 12from my burst, I immediately felt a great sense of13for my violent behavior, just 14that he was spending the entire day wearing a(n)15vest. At the same time, I was filled with great16for my father, whose gentle kindness taught me a life lesson I would treasure forever.
On that day, I made a17never to let anger get the better of me. I learn to 18others when I think that they behave in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way, 19forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off. And whenever I have difficulty20my strong emotion, I try to remember my father's vest.
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