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河北衡水中学2020届高三上学期英语第一次联合考试试卷
I had driven home to celebrate my 38th birthday with my mother. When I arrived, I found her 1 proudly at the kitchen table, a chocolate cake and two boxes wrapped orange ribbon (丝带)in front of her. "Happy birthday!" she said,2 at the boxes. "Open them."
As she knows me 3 than anyone, she'd gotten me exactly what I wanted—running clothes. I 4 her and thanked her and proceeded (接着)to eat the cake.
"Too many 5 ," I said, not really caring.
You'll run them off tomorrow," Mom said.
Many adult children with a parent suffering from 6 memory will tell you there was one day that 7 to them that their relationship with their mother or father would be forever changed.
For me that day8two weeks later, when I drove back for another short9. I came upon exactly the same 10 : my mom sitting at the kitchen table; a chocolate cake resting next to two 11 wrapped in curly ribbon. The ribbon was green this time. That was the only12"Happy birthday!" my mom said.
I was totally 13 . What's going on?" I asked.
Mom smiled. "Can't I celebrate my daughter's birthday?"
This was no 14 . This was real life, and since my mother clearly only wanted to make me 15 , I pushed aside my fear and fulfilled my role as the 16 daughter. I hugged her, thanked her and 17 the clothes... I did not mention to her that we'd done all this two 18 ago.
My house is her world now. My mother and I have the 19conversation roughly 10 times a day.20, I consider it a pleasure, because every minute is new for her.
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