题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
福建省厦门外国语学校2018-2019学年高二下学期英语期中考试试卷（音频暂未更新）
I remember my first woodworking project－a small table. It was absolutely beautiful and I was so 1 of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an) 2. I could 3 wait to give it to Mother Winters, the administrator of our orphanage (孤儿院), as a gift. We called our female caretakers “mother”. It was the title that we used when 4 them.
As the table legs were not 5 from the coating, we were instructed to wait a few days before taking them to the dormitories. But I was just so 6 that I couldn't wait. When I saw my chance, out the door I went like a 7, carrying my table and smiling from ear to ear.
I was 8 it in my dormitory when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table and run her hand 9 the top.
"It is very pretty," she told me. 10 when she touched the table leg, she noticed that it was still wet.
"Were you 11 to bring this home?" she asked.
"No, ma' am," I whispered with my head 12.
She made me throw the table out. After she left, I got it back. There was 13 stuck all over the legs. I brushed and cried and brushed and cried, but it would not 14. I hid the table in my closet.
A year later, I asked Mother Henderson, my houseparent (宿管员), to throw it away.
Thirty years later at a reunion, I 15 that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her 16 to help her get something important. I 17 her into a dark corner. She picked something up. 18 she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table.
Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of 19to Mother Henderson, who kept it for a young orphan who tried very hard to 20.
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