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牛津译林版九年级英语上Unit 2 colours单元测试（三）
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Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia (栀子花) was sent to my house. No card came with it. Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to find out the sender's name and I was just very pleased with the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper. But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged this imagination. She'd ask me if there was someone to whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man who I looked after when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt very sad and didn't want to go to the coming graduation dance at all. And I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia—lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
My father is a manager (经理). He is very busy. Every day is his workday. He goes to work at half past eight in the morning and comes home at ten or eleven in the evening. He gets lots of money (钱). But I'm not happy about it. He doesn't have a healthy life. —Clark |
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My mother is a cleaner (清洁工). She gets up at 4:30 and begins (开始) to work at 5:00 in the morning. She finishes working at 7:00 in the morning. She works for four hours in the afternoon and evening. After a day's work, the streets (街道) are clean, but my mum's clothes are not. So she takes a shower first when she comes home. My mother doesn't get much money, but she is great. She makes our city (城市) clean. — Molly |
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